"Although Mr. Clinton did not play soccer growing up in Arkansas, his daughter, Chelsea, was on a team by the age of 5. At the podium, he expressed his many emotional connections to the beautiful game and made the case for why the World Cup should come back to the United States and what it could do for the culture and economy ... Last week, the committee that Mr. Clinton now honorarily heads, which includes Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger, Drew Carey (yes, that one), MLS commissioner Don Garber, Mia Hamm, Donna Shalala, Spike Lee and Henry Kissinger, submitted a bid detailing the country's readiness. They named 18 possible cities as match sites, New York City included, each one having a stadium that can hold more than 76,000 people and all of the transportation and commercial infrastructure necessary to accommodate the soccer fans of the world. The committee estimated that more than a billion dollars in tickets would be sold and that each city would benefit from a $400 million to $600 million stimulus." (Observer)
"Then last night, at the Pierre, The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center held its 3rd annual Spring Ball, sponsored by David Yurman jewelers. This particular evening is many things in the scheme of things in New York. It was such a hot ticket that they sold out and had a Waiting List ...They raise money for Memorial Sloan Kettering for its research and for many other matters related to the hospital .. Heather Leeds, president of SMSKCC opened the evening, welcoming everybody and acknowledging the co-chairs Tory Burch, Shelley Carr, Dee Dee Ricks and Jamie Tisch. It was Tory Burch, through her friend, music executive Lyor Cohen, who was able to interest Mary J. Blige into performing. This was a coup. There were 450 guests. I’ve never seen the Pierre ballroom as packed ... Mary J. Blige, the icing on the cake. She opened with Led Zeppelin’s 'Stairway to Heaven.' This was followed by three more songs to point where the room automatically rose to its feet. They moved to the dance floor which soon was crowded to capacity, and the evening rocked on afterwards to the tunes of DJ Cassidy. What a night." (NYSocialDiary)
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