Friday night we checked out our first game of ice hockey, or rather, just "hockey" as they say in these parts. Watched the Uni team lose to Lake Superior State, ending a 10-game winning streak for Team Blue. I'm sure it wasn't our fault.
It's a very fast game, and ice is treacherously slippery, so the players seemed to spend a lot of their time slamming into the walls, pinning an opponent against the barrier with a certain amount of menace.
And now a small world story. Shortly before I left Sydney for Ann Arbor, during a stint as news editor, I ran a silly photo story off the front page under the headline "Gimme a B for busted". It reported a hit-and-run accident near the UM campus: a truck left the scene of a crash only to be tracked down after a cheerleading troupe, having witnessed the event, turned the truck's licence plate into a chant. At a bar on Friday night, I met the victim of the accident. She's a friend of one of the fellows, and couldn't be more surprised to have briefly been front-page news in Sydney.
And guess what made page three of Friday's New York Times? It was a relief to see a positive report from home, after the international embarrassment of December's race riots. The Times said the Senate debate on RU-486 "produced some moments unfathomable in the United States" with some "stunningly personal" statements from some senators. Fingers crossed we'll see some enlightened thinking in the House of Reps.
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