SPORTS
By David Wharton, Tribune Newspapers | January 13, 2011
FRISCO, Texas — Someone told the girl about Rucker Park in Harlem, told her that all the best players gathered there for pickup games. Harlem was two train rides and a long walk from her neighborhood in Queens, but she had fallen in love with basketball — shooting hoops in the playground each afternoon until dark — and nothing could keep her from having a look. Taking money from her mother's purse, she announced that she was headed for the park, neglecting to mention which park.
NEWS
By Kathleen Parker | December 17, 2009
T o a self-described "old feminist" such as Hadassah Lieberman, the recent blog-inspired attack against her - all related to husband Joe Lieberman's obstruction of the Democrats' health care agenda - has been a surreal mix of "McCarthyism" and a "snowball fight on the playground." Actually, ambush is a better word. Blogger Jane Hamsher, a movie producer ("Natural Born Killers") and political activist, went after Mrs. Lieberman as Senator Lieberman was refusing to vote for a health care reform bill that included expanding Medicare to people as young as 55. Ms. Hamsher claimed that because Mrs. Lieberman was a lobbyist and had worked for the pharmaceutical industry, she should be fired from her position as global ambassador for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.
NEWS
By From Sun news services | November 26, 2008
Teacher wants acid thrown on attackers KANDAHAR, Afghanistan : A 23-year-old teacher burned in an acid attack on 15 schoolgirls and instructors wants the Afghan government to throw acid on her attackers and then hang them. Kandahar's governor said yesterday that authorities had arrested 10 alleged Taliban militants in the Nov. 12 attack and that several had confessed to taking part. Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi said the men would be tried in open court, a pledge that pleased Nuskaal, a first-year math teacher who suffered acid burns on her shoulders.
NEWS
By James Oliphant and Janet Hook and James Oliphant and Janet Hook,Chicago Tribune | November 18, 2008
WASHINGTON - When Sen. Joe Lieberman broke from his longtime Democratic allegiance to back Republican John McCain for president, some rank-and-file Democrats were angry. And after Lieberman spoke at the Republican National Convention and criticized Barack Obama, they were practically apoplectic. Once Obama won and Democrats cemented their grip on Congress, the talk quickly turned to punishing the senator from Connecticut, who just eight years ago was the Democratic nominee for vice president.
NEWS
August 22, 2007
On Satudary August 18, 2007, RHONA LIEBERMAN (nee Tamres); beloved mother of Faith Smith, Marilyn Jacoby both of Baltimore, Allen Lieberman of Jackson, MS and Stacie Prince of Hoover, AL; dear mother-in-law of Jason Smith, Sr, Tonya Lieberman and Todd Prince; devoted sister of Shirley Talles of Baltimore, MD and the late Florine Lafferman, also survived by eleven loving grandchildren and one loving great-grandchild. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS.', INC., 8900 Reisterstown Rd, at Mt. Wilson Lane on Tuesday August 21 at 12 Noon.
NEWS
July 11, 2007
Mignon N. Lieberman, who donated works of art to Towson University as a memorial to her two sons, died in her sleep July 1 at her Phoenix, Ariz., home. The former Mount Washington resident was 93. Mignon Newman was born in Baltimore and was a 1931 Western High School graduate. She received a degree at what is now Towson University, where she met her future husband, Sidney Lieberman, a dentist. After their 1938 marriage, they worked together at his Eutaw Place dental practice, which moved to Park Heights Avenue in 1955.