| Jumat, 26 Maret 2010 |
| Maradona: Taktik yang Menopang Messi |
Utamanya pemain dituntut menopang taktik dan strategi tim. Perkecualian buat superstar Barcelona asal Argentina Lionel Messi. Pelatih Timnas Argentina Diego Maradona mengaku akan mengoptimalkan Messi di Piala Dunia. Bahkan agar Messi lebih bersinar, jika diperlukan Maradona tidak segan-segan mengubah taktik Albiceleste.
Seperti diketahui Messi sangat gemilang untuk Barcelona, tapi kesulitan mengeluarkan kemampuan terbaiknya. Karena kondisi itu Messi banyak dikritik, pun Maradona yang dianggap gagal memfasilitasi penyerang berusia 22 tahun tersebut.
“Jika harus mengubah taktik tim demi kebaikannya, saya akan mengubah,” kata Maradona. “Tetapi dengan sistem yang kami mainkan dan pemain yang kami miliki, menurut hemat saya dia akan bersinar di Piala Dunia 2010.”
Setelah mengunjungi talenta-talenta negerinya di Eropa, Maradona memberi perhatian khusus ke Messi. Perbincangan serius pun terjadi dan dari sana Maradona tahu apa yang diinginkan Messi. menurut Maradona, Messi tidak lagi pemain muda bertalenta tapi sudah menjelma menjadi bintang yang memiliki bakat kepemimpinan di lapangan.
Performa ciamik Messi dengan membukukan hat-trick di dua pertandingan La Liga berturut-turut kian melambungkan namanya. Puja dan puji menyambangi pesepakbola bernama lengkap Lionel Andres Messi tersebut. Messi dianggap pemain terbaik, bahkan melampaui Maradona. “Jika ada yang melebihiku, saya ingin dia orang Argentina. Jika Messi benar demikian, saya juga ikut menang—bahagia,” ujarnya.(DIM/Reuters) |
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| Sabtu, 13 Maret 2010 |
| Boys & Girls' Club CEO Roxanne Spillett's |
The Boys and Girls Club of America, a nationwide charity that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer aid, is under fire for paying out high salaries to executives such as CEO Roxanne Spillett at a time when the organization is closing clubs around the country.
FBI issues fraud alert warning to Americans for donation scams to Haiti.
A group of Republican senators, led by the Senate Finance Committee's ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter Thursday criticizing the non-profit organization's use of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds that it receives every year. The lawmakers are concerned the money is getting spent on perks, retirement plans, lobbying expenses and high salaries.
"It appears that such funds are not reaching the intended beneficiaries, in this case, the youth of the country," Grassley and Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a letter sent to Robert Bach, chairman of the board at the Boys and Girls Club of America.
The letter specifically cited Spillett, who is also the organization's president, for raking in $988,591 in total compensation in 2008, according to IRS filings. |
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| Sabtu, 06 Maret 2010 |
| 'Red, Hot and Blue' and more |
In two concerts, the Asheville Symphony Orchestra will treat audiences at home and in Brevard to its "Red, Hot and Blue" concert with works by Gershwin, Handel and Shostakovich this weekend.
The Asheville Symphony will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in downtown Asheville and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Porter Center at Brevard College.
Directed by conductor Daniel Meyer, "Red Hot and Blue" will include Handel's "Overture to the Royal Fireworks," Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," featuring Juilliard Competition winner Di Wu on piano.
Now, in his fifth season as music director of the Asheville Symphony, Meyer is recognized as one of the top young conductors of his generation.
"Rhapsody in Blue" was conceived as "a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America -- of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our blues, of our metropolitan madness," Gershwin said. He composed the rhapsody at a furious pace -- in about three weeks. It begins with a languid clarinet solo and includes a wonderful solo piano part, which will be played by Chinese-born Wu.
Wu made her professional debut at age 14 with the Beijing Philharmonic and has toured widely in Asia, Europe and the United States. She has appeared with Washington's National Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and twice in Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops. She has studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Zenon Fishbein, the Curtis Institute and earned a Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School. |
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