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Under The Needle: Meet Vince Lombardi, Seahawks fan
Escaping family history can be tough. Ask a Kennedy, a Mob scion, a Shakespearean character: That accident of birth can define (or dog) a person from cradle to grave. One Seattle attorney knows this better than most. That man, a 41-year-old Seahawks fan, will be rooting for the home team Saturday against the Green Bay Packers. Nothing crazy about that. Except this. His name is Vince Lombardi. He is the grandson of a man more associated with Green Bay Packers than anyone else. More than Bart Starr. More than Brett Favre. There is a street in Green Bay named after his Hall of Fame grandfather. A statue of the fedora-capped man stands like a sentinel in front of the stadium, Lambeau Field. For chrissakes, the NFL championship trophy, the league's highest award, is named after Coach Lombardi, almost entirely for what he did as a Packers' coach and general manager.
Gillian Whitehead
Gillian Whitehead was born in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1941. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959-62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from 1964-65, graduating MMus in 1966. That same year she attended a composition course given by Peter Maxwell Davies in Adelaide and in 1967 travelled to England to continue studying with him. She worked in London composing and copying music for two years and then with the assistance of a New Zealand Arts Council grant worked in Portugal and Italy from 1969-70. For the next seven years she continued freelance composing, principally based in the UK. From 1978-80 she was Composer in Residence for Northern Arts attached to Newcastle University (UK).
What’s your idea of a perfect Valentine’s Day?
This Thursday the little imp with the bow and the red heart will strike.No matter how sophisticated we are as a society, there is still something about Valentine's Day that brings out the romantic in everyone.But what is special about the day can vary from couple to couple. So what we want to know is:What is your idea of a perfect Valentine's Day and how do you plan to spend the holiday? .
Call for strike in city colleges today
She emphasised that economic independence of women is a positive step. Society has to recognise and empower the woman as a self-respecting individual. The irony is that we call our country Bharat Mata, but we dont respect our women, she remarked. Talking about the corporate world, Ms Mohini Daljeet Singh said: In their training programmes, companies should highlight the legal aspects of sexual harassment and the rights of women should be incorporated in the programme. This will help in educating their fellow employees and restraining them from exploiting them, she added. Making a presentation on Status of women an overview, Ms Jyoti Seth, Head of Department of Sociology, Government College of Women, pointed out, Of the 1. 3 billion people living in poverty, 70 per cent are women.
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