Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 6, 2000

Volume 29, Number 5

Master's tea will feature writer and broadcaster

Writer and broadcaster Frank Deford will be the guest at a master's tea on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The event is free and open to the public.

The author of 11 books, Deford also writes for Sports Illustrated, is a correspondent on the HBO television show "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" and is a commentator every Wednesday on "Morning Edition" on National Public Radio.

Deford's most recent book is the historical novel "Love and Infamy." His other books have ranged from biography to mystery to humor. Two of his books -- the novel "Everybody's All-American" and a memoir "Alex: The Life of a Child," about Deford's young daughter who died of cystic fibrosis -- have been adapted into movies. Deford also wrote the original screenplay for the comedy film "Trading Hearts."

Among his many honors, Deford is a member of the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. He was voted six times by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of the Year. The American Journalism Review cited him as the nation's finest sportswriter, and twice he was voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review. For his broadcast work, Deford received both an Emmy and Cable Ace awards.

After serving as national chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for 15 years, Deford is now chair emeritus of the organization.

Jewish law expert to speak at Slifka Center

Moshe Halbertal, professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will deliver a lecture titled "Controversy Over Controversy: Three Medieval Views on Debate in Jewish Law" on Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. in the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St.

The lecture, which is sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies, is free and open to the public.

Halbertal, who is also a fellow of the Hartman Institute, is one of the foremost authorities on the philosophy of Jewish law. He was recently one of the first two recipients of the Bruno Prize, given by the Rothschild Foundation to outstanding figures in Israel chosen among all fields of scholarly endeavor. The award, modeled on the MacArthur grants, provides support for three years.

Currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Halbertal has also been a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Among his books are "Idolatry" (co-authored with Avishai Margalit) and "People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority."

Ambassador to the UN will be guest at master's tea

Ambassador Nancy E. Soderberg will speak at a master's tea in the Calhoun College master's house on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 4:30 p.m.

The event, sponsored by Calhoun College and the Yale International Relations Association, is free and open to the public.

As the current alternate U.S. representative for special political affairs, a position she has held since December 1997, Soderberg represents the United States in the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council. She assists with the formulation and implementation of U.S. policy on Security Council issues, her primary responsibility being U.N. peacekeeping operations.

Before assuming her current position, Soderberg worked as a foreign policy assistant in the Mondale/Ferraro campaign, deputy issues director for foreign policy in the Dukakis/Bentsen presidential campaign, and deputy director of the presidential transition for national security and foreign policy director for the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign in 1992. She also served as senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

Soderberg later served in the Clinton/Gore administration as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and staff director of the national security council, then as the deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs from 1995 to 1997. She is the youngest deputy and highest ranking woman to ever serve at the National Security Council.

In addition to her appearance at the master's tea, Soderberg will deliver an address at the opening ceremonies of the 23rd annual Security Council Simulation at Yale on the role of the United States in issues of peacekeeping.

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