News and Updates

Pulitzer-winning writer Anna Quindlen visits with Flinn Scholars

November 21, 2007

Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen spent the evening of Nov. 16 with a dozen Flinn Scholars, wrapping up a weeklong residency at Arizona State University as the 2007 Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecturer.


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The esq. ledger, international edition

November 09, 2007

Mary Fan (’97), following law school and an MPhil courtesy of the Gates Cambridge people, is working for a year as an Associate Legal Officer for Judge O-Gon Kwon in the Hague. Judge Kwon is presiding over the “Srebrenica Seven”…


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Decisions, Decisions

November 09, 2007

Back in the day, a Dane was having trouble making up his mind. And one thing led to another, and then everybody except Horatio and a rambunctious Norwegian ended up cold and sprawled out on the stage. If our Dane…


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Six degrees of Tony Romo, vol. 2

November 08, 2007

We swear we’re not going to talk about football forever. In some ways, we think, Don DeLillo had it right. But still, this is fun: Nick T. Spark (’88 ) is producing a new documentary, “Pancho Barnes!“, which features Chuck…


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Six degrees of Tony Romo

November 07, 2007

It’s the start of a new dorm-room craze. Can anybody beat this? Kevin Bacon was in “Mystic River” with Marcia Gay Harden, who was in “American Dreamz” with Mandy Moore, who danced around on a Seattle stage during a concert…


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Laying down the law

November 07, 2007

Over on the Flinn Foundation website, there’s a pithy item on retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s visit with Scholars on October 27. A grand time was had by all, especially the gang of first-year Flinns who pleaded…


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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor addresses Flinn Scholars

November 06, 2007

One of the Flinn Scholarship Program's key enrichment components is a public-policy seminar series that allows Scholars to meet some of Arizona's most important leaders. On Oct. 27, current Scholars enjoyed an extended conversation with one of the nation's most…


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