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...Harvard football defensive tackle Desmond Bryant ’09 closed out this summer by earning a spot on the Oakland Raiders’ main roster...
...been doing a really good job, and he’ll definitely be getting time.”Defensively, the Crimson will inevitably miss the production it got from such talented 2009 graduates as Eric Schultz, Glenn Dorris, and Desmond Bryant, who is now with the Oakland Raiders. But according to Ehrlich, Harvard has plenty of players who have been waiting for their day to step in.“The timing works out perfectly,” Ehrlich says. “We graduated some guys, we have a pretty young team, but the way things are coming along?...
...spent a day with Jones in Oakland, Calif., his adopted hometown, back in November 2007, just as his star was beginning to rise. A Yale Law School graduate who, like Barack Obama, turned his back on a corporate paycheck and returned to work in his community, Jones founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996, initially focusing on police brutality and prison reform. By the time I met him, Jones had shifted his attention to the environment - but not out of an overwhelming desire to save polar bears on melting icebergs or prevent the rainforest from burning...
That day in Oakland with Jones was instructive. After visiting a community garden and a job training site for solar panel installers, we spent some time back at his office, where he addressed a visiting youth group, troubled kids, about the importance of staying in school and the new opportunities that might be available - if they could seize them. Then we went to an Oakland community meeting at a local church, where Jones gave a talk that was half-sermon, half economic brief, on the coming green jobs revolution. Next we crossed the bay to San Francisco's gilded city...
...getting stranger. For example, 11 big-city mayors from across the country are competing against one another for charity in a Yahoo! fantasy-football league this year. And they're really getting into it, which is great, because if there's one thing struggling cities like Buffalo, N.Y., and Oakland, Calif., need, it's their mayors debating a tight-end swap between budget meetings...