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Lara Hoffman spent the summer of 2006 working on human rights cases with Paul Hoffman, the former director of ACLU Southern California, and on homelessness legal policy, especially involving former foster youth, with Paul Freese, director of litigation and advocacy at Public Counsel. This opportunity was made possible by the law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Sonnenschein gave up to 50 law students across the country a $4,000 stipend last summer to help underwrite their work at a public interest agency of their choice.

Rachel Federman wrote in to update us on her musical pursuits. At the end of January Rachel's band Dimestore Scenario held a record release party at Southpaw in Brooklyn, N.Y.C., for the [then] forthcoming EP titled The Gowanus Sessions. At this point (due to the marvelous lag in getting news into print), I suspect that the CD is available for purchase at select locations. If you like, it appears that you can also purchase a copy of the CD on the band's Web site at www.dimestorescenario.com.

Although he didn't suit up for the game, Lloyd Lee was on the field at Super Bowl XLI in Miami: as a defensive assistant coach with the Chicago Bears. According to an article available at www.ivyleaguesports.com/article.asp?intlD=5705, Lloyd was promoted to defensive assistant in February 2006 after spending the prior two seasons as the team's defensive quality control coach. As many of you know, Lloyd entered the NFL as a free agent with the San Diego Chargers in 1998 and spent time on the Chargers roster and practice squad during the 1998 and 1999 seasons.

Mary Hollendoner was kind enough to drop me an e-mail to relay the fact that she is finishing up her second year of business school at UCLA Anderson and, "more importantly, planning my wedding, which will be in Tuolumne (Yosemite) on August 18!" Mary will be wed to John Stanfield, whom she met while living in Yosemite a few years back. It's your classic love story: she was a search-and-rescue team member, he an arborist. After meeting, Mary tells us, she and John climbed almost all of the local peaks, as well as the face of Half Dome and El Capitan in the valley, and have been inseparable ever since!" For their honeymoon the couple plans to travel to Australia and Nepal and, upon their return, will take up residence in the San Francisco area. Mary has taken a job—to commence following her honeymoon—as a financial analyst with Google (boy, I hope that position comes with stock options), and John will continue to grow his business of biodiesel production and converting diesel cars to run on vegetable oil. Of course. What else would you expect of an arborist?

Perhaps the best of all of us at keeping in touch, Jaime Bedrin wrote in to let us know that she is back in N.Y.C. after five years in North Carolina. She is working as a news writer for ABC News and, in her spare time, is a freelance reviewer of beauty and grooming products. Jaime invites you to read her beauty blog: www.productperfect.blogspot.com.

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