| Street comfortable in the classroom
Three weeks into his new career as a Temple University professor, former Mayor John Street is getting good early reviews from his students. "He's entertaining. He tells us stories about things that actually happened," said Temple senior Amanda Snyder, who is enrolled in Street's course on urban politics. The former mayor has ordered up a paper and has weekly assignments for his students, and he's requiring the class to study government structure in other municipalities as well. Instead of a traditional final, Street will ask his class to put together a simulated municipal budget, which seems about right for the numbers-loving former mayor. Heard in the Hall advises students not to cut funding for the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative or Safe and Sound.
Amidst the rubble, Union's women push for national title
JACKSON, Tenn. -- On Tuesday, Feb. 5, the Union University women's basketball team -- the No. 1-ranked National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics team in the nation, with a spotless record of 22-0 -- was scheduled to have a day off from practice. The Lady Bulldogs had played at Lyon College in Batesville, Ark., the night before and didn't arrive back at campus until 2:30 a.m. The day turned out to be far from restful, though. .
How Kevin Federline took his place among the world's most powerful men
Yes, the radical Shia cleric can only manage eighth spot, marked down for what we can only assume is an absence of cod-mystical tattoos and his failure to "bring it" in console-related activity. Bad news, too, for YouTube founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley (13), and there'll be tears before bedtime in Syria, whose president, Bashar Assad, limps in at 21. Nothing's upsetting the High School Musical imperium, though: a bunch of dancing kids top the entire list. But it's K-Fed's showing that effectively skyrockets the exercise to No 1 in the list of Stupidest Power Lists Ever - a position previously held by British GQ for claiming that David Beckham was more powerful than Rupert Murdoch. (And this was in 2001, before David bought all the satellites. I suppose the equivalent nowadays would be observing that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page lack the clout of Frank Lampard.) Anyways, foolhardy readers may ask, what of Britney, the Melinda Gates to K-Fed's Bill? Well, this week we have rumours of a far east adoption raid, and a detailed description of the singer's "fantasy room", a specially designated sex room in her Mulholland Drive home.
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