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Yes. Yes, it is.
But that's okay. Because it's the kind of privilege that comes from within, and it has little or nothing to do with material wealth or social standing. It has to do with making active choices about the kind of person you want to be and the kind of life you want to lead. Because even if you don't have two dimes to rub together, you can still choose the kind of people who you wish to befriend.
Some people do a good job of this quite instinctively. Others, including but not limited to the person who asked me to write about this topic, find themselves regularly entangled with people who create turmoil and drama, and/or are financial drains on the people around them. Whether the relationship is romantic or just friendship, these people are continually worn down by guilt and pressure or gobsmacked by upheaval they couldn't foresee (and yet other friends tell them was obviously on the horizon). They lament that they don't want this continual sturm und drang, and yet it continues to rule their lives. And they don't know how to avoid it. So I'm going to try and create some guidelines for getting better relationships into one's life.
I've been thinking about/working on this entry for a several weeks, because some people are not going to like what I'm going to say. It involves value judgments, and exclusivity, and all those things that a tolerant, liberal-minded person is not supposed to do. But the plain fact is that we do make those kinds of judgments, even if we don't want to talk about them. And if we don't, then our lives are subject to chaos that we can't begin to comprehend. So let me make a qualifying statement up front:
Everyone has the right to live as they like. I respect their right to live as they choose. But that doesn't mean I have to tolerate it in my life. I also have a right to choose.
Any set of guidelines I write are undoubtedly incomplete, and for some people may seem either impossible or naive. That's the trouble with trying to elucidate that which is instinctual. All I can say is that this is what seems to work for me, and if your first reaction is to dismiss them with disdain or anger, that maybe you should consider whether they are, in fact, cutting close to the bone. It could be you're rejecting it because it makes you uncomfortable, not because it's wrong.
1. Assess your own level of drama and pain-in-the-ass behavior. Change starts from within, right? I know any number of people who are certain that the world should revolve around them and that they are never at fault. If you find yourself regularly ranting about your friends, take time to notice the reactions of those to whom you regularly rant. Are they actually outraged for you, or are they making abstract noises that you can interpret as agreement? Because sometimes we ourselves are the source of the problem. But most people won't tell you this, because most people hate confrontation. A remarkable number of people who find themselves continually entangled in drama are the impetus behind much of that drama. Always start within when making change. Maybe, in your heart of hearts, you thrive on drama. Maybe when there isn't enough drama in your life, you get bored. Part of the reason some people are always attracted to the "bad ones" is that they feel more alive and unique when surrounded by upheaval. Look at yourself honestly, or ask a trusted friend. Then decide what you want to do about it. If you really want a more peaceful life, you're going to have to learn to adjust to the idea that "peaceful" and "boring" aren't synonymous, and recognize in yourself when restlessness is leading you to make trouble. You're going to have to identify those impulses that--though you want to tell yourself you're following for the good of yourself or someone else--are actually ways of making trouble. And that means recognizing when your attraction to certain people is really attraction to their drama potential.
2. If your idea of fun is heavy drinking, drug use, or engaging in law defiant behavior, the friends you will find in that lifestyle are likely to treat you with the same regard as they have for social convention. Certainly this is not universal, but as a general rule your lifestyle choices dictate the people to whom you will be socially exposed. It's a different crowd of people who hang out at the Dew Drop Inn than the one that attends the symphony, to use examples at the two extremes. while most people fall somewhere between these two extremes, and people's habits and hobbies can include a lot of different activities, there is a tendency to gravitate toward certain activities. Again, there's nothing wrong with a person's lifestyle choices.
Now, lots of people who enjoy partying are hardworking, honest folk who pay their rent, hold down jobs, and limit their party activities to responsible hours. But there is also a certain faction of this group who are wastrels, ready to suck the life and cash out of anyone who will allow it. And generally such people are charming and attractive, at least to start--if they weren't, who'd bother with them. So if you are engaged in this lifestyle, and want to remain engaged in this lifestyle, you'd better be extra cautious about who you allow into your inner circle. And prepared to be mired with people who get past your guard. Otherwise, consider changing the amount of time you spend with such crowds.
(And it's not just substance abuse. You can find the same issues among those engaged in alternative lifestyles across the board.)
3. When you find that a friend or acquaintance of yours is not really a good friend, you have the right to stop being friends--and you don't owe them an explanation. There have been a few people in our life whose actions were on the surface friendly, but in reality hurtful and manipulative. In some cases, ending such a relationship requires an actual confrontation and breakup, but there have been other times when we've just drifted away without any kind of dramatic scene. If a hurtful person is not in the center of your friends group, you are allowed to simply omit them from invitations and decline theirs. Most of the time this will result in a gradual loss of ties, and your life will not involve that person anymore. You don't owe them an explanation of why you don't want to spend time with them; you aren't required to like everybody. Don't feel guilty about that. On a related note:
4. You aren't required to save anybody from their own life choices. Some people get really mired in unhealthy relationships because they feel like they have to "be there" for everyone--even people they don't know that well. But there is no duty to rescue, and in most cases there isn't even a moral obligation. Many people who claim to want help really are the people described in the first section of this entry. Such people are vampires: they will suck away your time, your energy, and sometimes your bank account in a professed effort to change. In reality, though, they just like the attention you're paying to them. If you stop playing their game, they will just find another victim. But they will only change when it suits them, and as long as people are giving them all this sweet, sweet attention, they will remain in crisis.
There's an old saying that if an acquaintance asks to borrow $20, you should give it to him: if he pays you back, you've found a friend; if he disappears with your money, it's a small price to pay to get him out of your life. But some people aren't so easy to categorize. Some people will take the $20 and then ask for more. And if you fall into the trap of helping people who are just going to ask for more, then you can find yourself mired with someone who will not only make outrageous demands of you, but who will tell you that you are a terrible person when you refuse their demands.
It's okay to help friends. It's an active good, in fact. But giving help that causes you to feel resentful, or is based on guilt is a good sign that the person asking may not really be much of a friend. In times of crisis, you may have to give in ways that are inconvenient, but if everything is always a crisis? Rethink this relationship.
Users are hard to escape. They will do everything in their power to keep you at their beck and call. They will tell you that you are an awful, selfish person. They will talk smack about you to other friends. They will give you ultimatums.
They are jerks. Get rid of them. Do not feel guilt, and get past your urge to save them. You can't help them. You are already in the victim pool, and no amount of wrangling will ever free you from that mire. You have to break all ties. If they are still friends with your friends, tell your friends that you aren't asking anyone to choose sides, but that you are no longer involved with that person and you don't want to talk about it. Don't read their journal/facebook/twitter account, because it will be filled with passive/aggressive commentary that will make you want to rebut. And don't engage in your own musings about the experience, no matter how tempting, because it just keeps you involved. These are Hydra relationships, and if you don't cut off the head and burn the neck with fire, they are just going to continue growing.
5. You don't have to like your friends' friends. Parties at the homes of other friends are always these interesting Venn diagrams of "New People," "Friends We See Regularly," and "Acquaintances We Only See at the Home of This Friend." Some of those acquaintances are people with whom we have nothing in common but a passing familiarity, others are people we enjoy visiting with but never manage to actually get together with outside of these gatherings, no matter how much we mean to. A few others are people who we're happy to talk to when we get together at this friend's house but with whom we have nothing in common and no interest in seeing otherwise. This is a very common and normal way of interacting with people. But sometimes a friend might want to bring a "no interest" person into the rest of our lives.
It's okay to say no to this. Just because your friend likes this person doesn't mean that you are required to like them, too.
Now, this can get tricky. If a dear friend is dating this "no interest" person, you do kind of have to deal with that. But if you're holding a party and your friend wants to expand your guest list to include a bunch of her friends that you don't care for, it's fine to say, "Sorry, I don't want to expand the party that much" or something similar. Anyone who reacts to this by trying to guilt you is not being a very good friend.
6. Your house, your rules. If you ask that people take off their shoes, or close the door so the cat doesn't get out, or don't turn up the heat, and your "friends" act like you are being some kind of dictatorial jerk, then they are not giving you the respect you deserve, and they aren't really much or a friend. People who expect you to provide all the beer, snacks, housework, and electricity, and never give anything back? Why do you need them? Friendship is supposed to be about mutual respect and care, and if you're not getting that out of a relationship, it's time to reconsider whether you want to be in that relationship.
7. Love and respect yourself as you would respect and love others. This is the inverse of The Golden Rule, but I see a lot of people who really need to apply it. If you don't have expectations of being treated well, and a willingness to calmly walk away from a situation where you aren't being treated well right from the start, then you are going to end up deeply tangled in poor, miserable relationships that take a huge amount of energy to escape. Learn to watch for signs of disrespectful behavior right from the beginning, and keep such people at arm's length. They can still provide entertainment--who doesn't love a good scoundrel? But don't let them in close enough to hurt you, and your life will be a happier, more peaceful place.
As always, I've certainly missed some good tips. Anyone else have any suggestions to offer?


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2012 Applegate-Dorros Peace and International Understanding Award
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Presented to an NEA member, NEA local affiliate, and/or NEA state affiliate whose activities in education contribute to international understanding and motivate youth to work for world peace.
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When Rob Fetters was in elementary school, his parents began fostering and adopting teenage refugees from Vietnam. He grew up with ten Vietnamese brothers and two Vietnamese sisters. He learned to speak some Vietnamese and appreciate Vietnamese food. Clearly, the experience made him a confirmed internationalist.
Today, Rob Fetters teaches Social Studies, grades 9-12, in the Mount Vernon Public Schools, Mount Vernon, Ohio. For the past 20 years, Rob Fetter's family has included his wife, Khampraseuth, her parents, brothers, sisters, and many other relatives from Laos, where they suffered many hardships from years of war and refugee camps.
Rob Fetters and his family specialize in hosting students and teachers from across the world. For several weeks every year, from 2001 to 2006, they hosted teachers and college students from Japan. While in the U.S., these teachers interacted with and taught Mount Vernon students, along with students from surrounding high schools. From 2007 to 2009, Rob Fetters and his family hosted two college professors from China. They lived with the Fetters and Rob made sure that the students in his classroom had the opportunity to meet with the Chinese professors and learn from them. Rob has also brought international guests from Ohio State University and Kenyon College into his school and community to share their cultures and insights.
In addition to organizing the Mount Vernon International Festival every year, Rob Fetters also organizes the Mount Vernon K-12 Japanese art contest. Based on his experience, Rob earned a grant from Ohio State University's Institute for Japanese Studies; and for the past several years, he has organized a Japanese-influenced art and literature contest that has awarded thousands of dollars in student prizes.
A passionate teacher and advocate for intercultural understanding among young people, Rob Fetters models these principles in his school and in his relationship with local higher education institutions and his community. He has received many accolades from his colleagues and the parents of his students. A parent of one of his former students, Kim McMullan, John Crowe Ransom Professor of English, Kenyon College, says of Rob: He has "a deep, personal knowledge of a range of national cultures" and "the energy, farsightedness and dedication to bring this knowledge to bear on his teaching every day."
Xiujuan Wang, one of the Chinese guest professors Rob and his family hosted and now Guest Teacher Advisor, Confucius Institute, University of Delaware, says simply: "Mr. Rob Fetters is a creative teacher with an international mind."
What's more Rob Fetters has been an activist and leader in the Mount Vernon Education Association and the Ohio Education Association.
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Being educated and informed will help you make the best decisions about your cancer treatment. Get all the information you can as early as possible concerning your evaluation, treatment, and possible side effects. The sooner you know about side effects and possible treatments, the more likely you are to protect yourself against them, or manage them more effectively.
Your doctor and nurse are your best sources of information, but you must remember to ask questions. There is no such thing as a dumb question. Don't be afraid to ask anything that is on your mind. To make the most of your opportunities to learn from your health care providers, read as much as you can and make a list of questions before each appointment. Also, ask family, friends, and your support team to help you remember the questions. These approaches will help you talk more effectively with your doctor or nurse. Finally, you or your caregiver should consider taking notes during your visit to ensure you remember what you learned.
The following are some questions, grouped by topic, which you may wish to ask your nurse or physician:
Your Cancer
• Do you typically treat patients with my diagnosis?
• What stage is my cancer?
• Is there anything unique about my cancer that makes my prognosis better or worse?
• Should I get a second opinion?
Cancer Treatment
• What is the goal of treatment?
• To cure my cancer or stop it from growing?
• What are my treatment options?
• How can each treatment option help me achieve my goal of therapy?
• What risks or potential side effects are associated with each treatment?
• What research studies ("clinical trials") are available?
• Are there any clinical trials that are right for me?
• How long will I receive treatment, how often, and where?
• How will it be given?
• How will I know if the treatment is working?
• How might a disruption in my chemotherapy dose or timing affect my results?
• How and when will I be able to tell whether the treatment is working?
• What are the names of all the drugs I will be taking?
• Can I talk with another of your patients who has received this treatment?
• Are there any resources or Web sites you recommend for more information?
• What types of lab tests will I need?
• Will I need x-rays and scans?
• Can you explain the results of my complete blood count (CBC)?
• Are there tests for the genetic make-up of my cancer?
• Will I benefit from having my cancer evaluated for its genetic make-up?
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Side Effects of Treatment
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Warfarin (also called Coumadin) is a drug prescribed to help prevent blood clots. With more than 2 million prescriptions per year, one of the side effects of the drug is an increased risk of bleeding. The FDA re-labeled yesterday the warfarin package insert recommending the testing of multiple genetic variants in two genes namely 2C9 and VKORC1 for safer drug dosing.
"We have completed a successful evaluation of the INFINITI 2C9-VKORC1 panel which has the potential to optimize warfarin dosing and lower the risk of bleeding complications" said Dr. Raju Kucherlapati, Scientific Director of the Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics (HPCGG) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. HPCGG is coordinating the "CReating an Optimal Warfarin Nomogram" (CROWN) Trial which is a prospective dosing study utilizing genetic testing to determine the optimal warfarin dose and how this information can be used for clinical care.
"We are pleased to see that through the re-labeling of the warfarin package insert, the FDA has recognized that patients with certain genetic variants may benefit from lower initial dosage thus reducing the risk of major bleeding events" said Ram Vairavan, Senior Vice President at AutoGenomics. He further said "Our expanded panel of genetic variants mentioned in the package insert encompassing African, Asian and other ethnic groups enables same day dosing on our automated multiplexing platform."
About AutoGenomics
AutoGenomics Inc., a privately held company based in Carlsbad, CA, has developed the first automated, microarray based multiplexing diagnostic platforms that can be used to assess disease signatures with novel genomic and proteomic markers in the area of genetic disorders, infectious disease, cancer and pharmacogenetics. With the discovery of genes and their link to various disease states the platform has the versatility to revolutionize the way patients are diagnosed, monitored and managed leading to the era of personalized medicine. http://www.autogenomics.com
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"Morena. Mooooreeena." With my nonexistent Portuguese and dormant Spanish, it took a minute to realize the man selling bracelets on the beach was calling my name. "Morena" meant me, "black girl." Now, in the States, strangers don't try to grab your attention by singing to you about your skin color — at least not the ones trying to sell you stuff. But in Brazil, a country where nearly 40 percent of the population identifies as "mulatto or mixed raced," being called "morena" to my face meant nothing and everything.
In São Paulo, three of us were checking out the skyline from Paulista Avenue when an Asian woman with glassy eyes stopped us to ask where she could find "the black man. You know? The South African president." Apparently she was supposed to meet him at the Museum of Art and he was late. Seriously. "You mean Nelson Mandela?" my friend Johnica tried to clarify. Ernest White, our unofficial tour guide, knew what she really meant.
"I've been confused for a rentboy — that's male prostitute in Brazil — a drug dealer or a random social climber," explained White, creator and editor of the travel blog Fly-brother.com. In the case of the Asian woman outside the São Paulo Museum of Art, "drug dealer" was the stereotype du jour. But that doesn't keep White from loving South America, where he's lived for more than five years, first teaching English and now as an editor of Time Out São Paulo.
I chatted with White recently to get his take on what it's like not just to travel while black but also to live in a place larger than the contiguous United States as an expat who speaks perfect Portuguese.
The Root: Is it really a different experience to be a black man traveling?
Ernest White: One of my favorite quotes from Passing Strange is, "We're all freaks, depending on the backdrop." The number of places where I've blended in with the locals has actually been surprising: Western Europe, Egypt, India and, of course, Brazil and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. In Bolivia and Korea, not so much.
TR: You spent a few years in Colombia before "settling" in Brazil. Why São Paulo?
EW: While New York is chaotically ordered, São Paulo is ordered chaos. Streets and even buildings curve and rise and fall with the landscape. São Paulo is organic; it's tropical and sensual and intense. It's messy and it can crush you. As a foreigner, especially, you have to want to live here, or you won't last. I love this place, nastiness and all. When that energy's flowing just right, this place is like a cosmic orgasm.
TR: Yeah, "cosmic orgasm" is my new thing. So when did this travel love affair start?
EW: I've always been a geography nerd and used to collect travel posters and airline timetables as a kid — I was born with the travel bug. My first overseas trip was a six-week summer exchange to Sweden just before my senior year of high school. I was way in the north, near the Arctic Circle, the only nonwhite person in town except for this Indian girl who'd been adopted by Swedish parents. I actually had a good time: People were nice, spoke English and even jammed to Toni Braxton.
TR: You've got trips to South Africa, Angola, Australia, Malaysia and Argentina in the pipeline. What is it about traveling that you love so much?
TR: Is that why you started Fly Brother? To get the rest of us addicted?
EW: I started Fly Brother as a creative outlet and a way of encouraging people — specifically black people — to travel abroad. There is no better experience on earth than communing with people in different countries, in different languages, and reveling in the similarities and differences. If I kept my experiences to myself, I'd feel like they were wasted.
TR: What advice do you have for future black travelers? Tips? Things to do? Things to avoid?
EW: Get a passport. Use it. There's no form of racism you'll encounter abroad worse than what we've already gone through, so that shouldn't be a deterrent. Yes, you might need a foreign-language dictionary, but so what? As long as you know how to say "food," "bathroom" and "hotel," you're good to go. Be open. Meet people. Ask questions. Listen. Ladies, keep a Taser in your bag; knuckleheads exist everywhere. "Now, voyager … go forth to seek and find."
Helena Andrews is a regular contributor to The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.
Helena Andrews is a contributing editor at The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.


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Philly residents rappel down Center City building for charity
One by one, they slung themselves over the side of a 21-story Center City building and rappelled down its sleek surface.
On Friday, about 70 daring Philadelphians, including Mayor Michael Nutter, were handed a helmet and strapped into a harness at the top of 1515 Market St. as part of a fundraiser to support Outward Bound Philadelphia.
The world's oldest and largest adventure-based educational program teaches character building and leadership to underserved students attending local public and charter schools.
Katie Newsom Pastuszek, executive director, said "Building Adventurer 2012" was dreamed up to give the organization some exposure and to show each participant the power within them.
"What we are hoping they realize is that if they are properly coached and instructed, that they can do something that they always thought was impossible and they can overcome challenge and recognize that inside of them there is something more than they had seen before," said Newsom Pastuszek.
Mayor Nutter, who helped found Outward Bound Philadelphia, climbed to new heights on the campus of Temple University Center City just after 2:30 p.m. on Friday.
With arms outstretched and City Hall at his back, he posed for occasional pictures and waved to employees safely working on the other side of the glass.
Though he admitted to thinking, " ' Wow, I just stepped off the ledge of a 21-story building,' " before he began his long trek down the face of the towering building, Nutter said the benefit of the event outweighed any fear.
Chestnut Hill resident Nancy Goldenberg followed Nutter. She was provided with words of encouragement – "way to go Nancy and " you can do it" – almost immediately.
In a crowd of more than 100 onlookers, a small cheering squad watched her journey on a television screen.
Goldenberg, one of the founders of Outward Bound Philadelphia, said the fundraiser directly correlates with the experience-based learning that the organization hopes encourages and helps participants in all aspects of their lives.
" The wilderness experiences are really metaphors for life experiences," said Goldenberg. "It is through nature – paddling, mountain climbing – that you learn to become a leader and how to navigate in tough situations and you are going to face those tough situations when you are in a classroom, in an office and all through the rest of your life."
The event was not Goldenberg's her experience with rappelling, but it was first time she tackled anything so tall. She's already looking forward to next year's event.
"Maybe we should jump off the Comcast tower," joked Goldenberg,
The monetary goal of the day was to raise $160,000, which required each thrill-seeker to raise $2,000 or more to rappel.
As of Friday evening, the first-time event has pulled in $157,000.


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"Our long term security plan in Libya was to recruit and deploy an armed, locally hired Libyan bodyguard unit," State Department Regional Security Officer Eric Nordstrom told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in written testimony.
"However, because of Libyan political sensitivities, armed private security companies were not allowed to operate in Libya," Nordstrom said in his testimony submitted on Oct. 10. "Therefore, our existing, uniformed static local guard force, both in Tripoli and Benghazi were unarmed, similar to our static local guard forces at many posts around the world. Their job was to observe, report, and alert armed host nation security, and armed DS agents on-site."


text: Granted, the Academy had some trouble on the way while attempting to navigate the newfangled technology that is the internet, but the moment has arrived nonetheless: It's Oscar night. The 85th annual Hollywood self-celebration kicks off this evening at 8:30 p.m. EST, and while we can't actually predict who's going to win — and after Nate Silver has entered the game, why bother? — we can tell you who we think really deserves to take home the shiniest, baldest symbols of Hollywood popularity in all the major categories. Check out our picks in the gallery, share your own in the comments, and tune in tonight to see how reality measures up. Best Movie: Zero Dark Thirty Actually picking a "best movie" of a given year is a nonsense game. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; classics take time to reveal themselves, and there's no way of knowing for sure that the actual best film won't languish in obscurity, only to be discovered by grandkids who will scoff at our philistinism and ignorance. So the Best Picture Oscar isn't really about picking the best movie of the year. Instead, it's about finding a great movie that somehow speaks clearly and powerfully to the America of right now. A film that reflects or dictates a zeitgeist, that captures the moment, that shows us to ourselves with honesty and eloquence. For better or worse, Zero Dark Thirty is that film for 2012. Everything about Zero Dark Thirty is attuned to our consciousness as a people: the incredibly strange pace of our lives where our years feel condensed into minutes but seconds impatiently stretch to feel like hours; the obsessiveness with which we fixate on villains, icons, dramatizations of good and evil to distract ourselves from the cold, technocratic, self-perpetuating war of information and death surrounding us; the uncomfortable shifting sands of gender relations in our society of strong, successful women who nevertheless struggle through a sea of isolation, suspicion, and skewed expectations that they themselves are reluctant to admit exists. Bigelow and Boal's film unassumingly encompasses all of these issues, presenting them through deceptively lean storytelling and world-beating ensemble acting, planting ideas and questions in moments of strange ambiguity and tension. Argo may be how we appear to ourselves on the surface, but Zero Dark Thirty cuts through to the bone and pulls out the marrow, showing us what's really going on underneath. As upsetting as it may be to admit, this is the film of the moment, and the Best Picture of the year. — Jason Michelitch Photo: Sony/Columbia PicturesBest Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis It took a mogul of Steven Spielberg's stature to get $65 million spent making a film about legislative maneuvers, built entirely on long scenes of dialogue, but it took Daniel Day-Lewis to actually make it work. Despite excellent writing, sturdy direction, and striking cinematography, Lincoln rests almost entirely on the shoulders of its lead performer. Day-Lewis's interpretation of the iconic bearded president is enrapturing, riveting, captivating -- all those five-dollar adjectives that mean the same thing: You cannot look away from this incredible performance, miraculously suspended between myth and man. A quiet, high-pitched voice at home telling quaint anecdotes that on a dime can thunder forth with ultimate authority; a tall, imposing stature that hides itself in slouches, loping strides, subtle gestures; a face that is destined to be carved into the side of a mountain co-exists with a face that is constantly shifting between wistful delight and craft calculation, between stark determination and deep, painful sorrow. It is so compelling to merely watch Day-Lewis when he is still -- watch him listening, watch him feeling, thinking, planning -- that it is startling how physical his performance can become. When this Lincoln crawls on the floor to stoke a fire or be with his son, it is so charming and thrilling and unexpected that you cannot ever again think of the 16th president as a classical, stalwart hero figure or a stodgy speech-giver. He is a spidery figure full of weird energy calling to mind the great Jeremy Brett's interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, another role requiring an actor to somehow show through his face that he is thinking seven times faster than anyone else in the room. When Day-Lewis speaks, lengthy, complex speeches that break all the rules of modern screenwriting flow past us as naturally as running water. He is simply a joy to experience in every mode of being, at every moment of the film. From the moment we are introduced to Lincoln in private repose, lanky body stretched between chair and bed, foot propped unceremoniously on a bedpost, casually knocking on his head as he asks his wife "How's the coconut?" our attention cannot flag for a minute. The film has us to do with as it pleases, because we dare not miss a moment of time with this remarkable presence. Day-Lewis's Oscar is all but preordained, our naming him here neither daring nor original. But sometimes conventional wisdom gets it right. -Jason MichelitchBest Actress: Jennifer Lawrence This year's Best Actress race is one of the most heated in recent memory — mostly because in addition to having both the oldest and youngest nominees ever, it is also just a solid bunch of nominees from beginning to end. But at the end of the night, it's Jennifer Lawrence who should be holding a little gold man (and not just because she'll probably do something awkward like call him a "naked statue"). First of all, Lawrence's performance as the widowed Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook is incredible. Her ability to go slalom from humor to heartbreak to verbally laying out Robert De Niro is pretty much flawless and exudes that "it" quality that simply can't be taught. Second, it's just her year. She's been nominated for Best Actress before — for 2010's Winter's Bone — and she easily could've won for that performance. But she lost to Natalie Portman for Black Swan. It was Portman's year. This one is Lawrence's. And like Portman before her, she's mastering the art of mixing smart indie films with geek-friendly fare (Portman was Padmé, Lawrence is Mystique and Katniss Everdeen), making her a lethal cocktail of awesome. In a year when Hollywood, and the people who watch its movies, really decided to start getting excited about women (women!) headlining films, Lawrence lead the charge. Is that enough of a reason to give her an Oscar, considering she's nominated for her Silver Linings role and not her heroine one as Katniss and she's up against Jessica Chastain's real-world hero in Zero Dark Thirty? Probably not. But her turn as Tiffany was impeccable and filled with a tough vulnerability that eclipses her very worthy fellow nominees, and it happened to come at the end of her most prolific year yet. The odds are ever in her favor. — Angela Watercutter Photo: The Weinstein CompanyBest Supporting Actor: Matthew MacFayden, Anna Karenina Oh, sure, you could reward Alan Arkin for wasting his talent, or Tommy Lee Jones for the bravery of wearing a terrible wig. You could give Robert De Niro a gold star for actually bothering to be awake while performing for the first time in years. You could applaud Christoph Walz for being insanely charming or Philip Seymour Hoffman for being one of our finest living actors, if, y'know, you're into that kind of thing. I'm sure you all have plenty of perfectly logical reasons for your own Best Supporting Actor pick. But me, I don't know from logic. I only know that I want that gold statue in the hands of Prince Stepan "Stiva" Arkadyevich Oblonsky, as embodied by Matthew MacFayden of the BBC. Because I saw a lot of great movies this year, but my favorite ten minutes spent in a theater were the first 10 minutes of Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, and in my memory those minutes are mainly filled with Mr. MacFayden making stupendously hilarious faces and pirouetting in and out of various coats. If you don't understand the last part of that sentence, well, the first 10 minutes of Karenina are a very special piece of cinema that have to be experienced to be understood. There are a lot of moving parts (emphasis on moving) that go into making Karenina one of the most strangely kinetic and thrillingly alive films of the year, but it is MacFayden's performance, nearly that of a great silent comedian, which lingers most fondly in my memory. — Jason Michelitch Photo: Universal Pictures/Focus FeaturesBest Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway Oh, Anne Hathaway. As Fantine in Les Misérables she's meant to be the saddest sack in a pretty bleak story to begin with. (A haircut hasn't been this traumatic since V for Vendetta.) But, ironically, her gut-wrenching performance actually ends up being the shining-est moment in an otherwise uneven film. (Les Mis was good, but not really great.) That said, Hathaway is another strong performance up against some tough competition — most notably from Amy Adams in The Master and Sally Field in Lincoln. But, frankly, none of them have Hathaway's pipes. A lot of hay has been made about all of the live singing director Tom Hooper required to make his film adaptation of the classic musical, and while it works better for some than others (see: Adam Lambert's side-eye), it's lightning in a bottle for Hathaway. Her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" was the best three-ish minutes of the 2.5 hours of Misérables, and the moment when the life falls out of her eyes at the end of the last note is reason enough to give her the Oscar. And, frankly, the Academy owes her one for all the work she put in hosting the Oscars telecast with James Franco in 2011. — Angela Watercutter Photo: Universal PicturesBest Adapted Screenplay: David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis Farihah Zaman recently described the experience of Cosmopolis as one akin to having a robot ejaculate into your skull. She didn't mean it as a compliment, but I enthusiastically agreed. David Cronenberg's adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel is a linguistic horrorshow, hyper-verbal and bent on destruction of your parietal lobe. The angular, serpentine dialog crawls into your brain and starts re-ordering your neurons. The structure of the film, which takes place largely inside a limousine traveling at a snail's pace across Manhattan in order to deliver its young billionaire passenger to his favorite barber, defeats every instinct your mind has about how to access or make sense of a film's plot. The film's major events — sex, violence, a massive anti-capitalist protest, an assassination plot (or two?) — all slide into the film sideways, unexpected, sometimes barely perceived and never anticipated. By the end, you're left simply taking in words and images as if they are subliminal smoke signals from a distant alien civilization: You know there's communication occurring, but you can't figure out what you're being told. Later you discover the answer hidden in the back of your subconscious, but it's in a language you can't read. Cronenberg continues to be unlike any other figure in film, and as much as he is a great director, he has always been a fascinating screenwriter, and on that front this is his finest work. — Jason Michelitch Photo: Entertainment OneBest Cinematography: Skyfall, Roger Deakins The surprising thing about Skyfall didn't have anything to do with the plot, or the performances, or the revelations about Bond's history. Instead, it was how beautiful the movie looked, and how unobtrusive that beauty was. There are shots in the movie that are just perfect, amazing moments of composition and color, and yet as amazing as they are, the movie doesn't slow down to smugly point out them out; it just powers on with the story. Two scenes in particular stand out: Firstly, the fight with the assassin in the Shanghai office building, lit by neon images outside and mirrored across myriad glass surfaces, a choice that makes metaphor — spies working in the shadows, and Bond reflecting about himself and the nature of his work — into visual reality without impacting the intensity of the fight itself. And then, the calm majesty of the Skyfall reveals itself. Perhaps the most visually self-indulgent moment of the movie, it's nonetheless something that's wonderfully evocative of the real Highlands. Both cold and harsh while also natural and inviting, the sheer amount of space in each shot simultaneously contrasts the busyness of the earlier urban settings and evokes Bond's existential loneliness. Roger Deakins' Skyfall work is, fittingly, just like Bond himself: Quietly efficient, entirely professional and utterly deadly. Here's to the Academy giving him some credit for that. -Graeme McMillan Photo: Columbia PicturesBest Director: Michael Haneke, Amour There are plenty of reasons to award the Best Directing oscar to Michael Haneke, the 70-year-old auteur who has spent the last two decades becoming one of the most celebrated directors in the world. He has won the Palme D'Or twice, one of only eight filmmakers to have ever done so, and his most recent win was for Amour, the film under consideration this Sunday. His work displays an artful control that most other directors can merely dream of, and there can be little doubt that of the nominated directors, his is the most assured and original cinematic vision. Normally, there would be little chance of a director such as Haneke actually winning an Academy Award for directing, but this is a strange year for the category. The anointed favorite, Steven Spielberg, has seen his film's chances for Best Picture fade away, and with it his status as inevitable winner. Last year saw the first time a European director working outside the Hollywood system was awarded Best Director, and it's just embarrassing to think of Michel Hazanavicius winning an Oscar and Michael Haneke being passed over. It would be nice if the Academy voters seized this glorious moment of confusion as an opportunity to class up the Oscar ceremony significantly. — Jason Michelitch Photo: Sony Pictures ClassicsBest Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained The story of slave-turned-bounty-hunter-turned-freedman Django and his journey to rescue his wife, Broomhilda, from bondage — along with his mentor dentist-turned-bounty-hunter Dr. King Schultz — Django Unchained is a Quentin Tarantino movie through and through, with diverse genre influences ranging from spaghetti Westerns to blaxploitation films, to John Woo's bullet ballets. You can view it as a revenge movie, a Western, or a straightforward action movie as Django takes down an array of evil slave owners and overseers on the way to his goal. But at its heart, Django Unchained is a new interpretation of an old legend, and a movie about how far someone is willing to go for love. Set during one of the most painful times in America's history, it walks a fine line between thoughtful, exploitative, exciting, and somber. Tarantino pulls no punches in the script, but focuses not only on the suffering, but the deep love that Django feels for his wife. That Tarantino managed to stick the landing on that complicated trick is impressive. Django Unchained is a love story that seems divisive (and uncomfortable) at first glance, but ultimately depicts a feeling that we all know and hold dear. — David Brothers Photo: The Weinstein CompanyBest Animated Feature: ParaNorman Let's be honest; if the Oscars predictors out there are right, ParaNorman's win might be a long shot. It's up against the Pixar might of Brave and the Tim Burton-iness of Frankenweenie. But in a really new category like Best Animated Feature (est. 2002), it would be wonderful to see experimental winners like the folks at Laika, who used all kinds of 3-D printing and stop-motion techniques to make ParaNorman. It would be nice, in Hollywood especially, if innovators and early adopters were celebrated early and often. That said, the entire crop of nominees in this years Best Animated Feature category are experimenters in their own right — from the folks at Aardman Animations who made the stop-motion The Pirates! Band of Misfits to Disney's smart videogame tale Wreck-It Ralph. It's a great list of films, it would just be nice to have the little clairvoyant known as Norman come out on top. — Angela WatercutterBest Music (Original Song): "Skyfall" from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth I'll admit it: On first listen, Adele's "Skyfall" disappointed. It felt as if it didn't go that extra distance, that it was too restrained, too aware of its own tastefulness. And then I saw it being used in the movie. Strangely, everything that had made me uncertain about the song before suddenly worked in context. Combined with giving the opener's traditional hallucinatory visuals, the song's restraint worked in its favor, with Adele's vocals hitting just the right level of melodrama and patented melancholic desperation. And the callbacks to earlier Bond music, with the orchestration recalling John Barry in its swoop and fall, fell entirely with the movie's own re-use of Bond iconography and mythology. "Skyfall" the song ended up being the perfect preview for Skyfall the movie: something informed by — and respectful of — its place in a long lineage, but able to stand on its own terms as well; something that was at once classic and contemporary, and left you wanting more by the time it was over. When it comes to original songs written especially for movies this year, it's pretty much unmatched. — Graeme McMillan Photo: Columbia Pictures


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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Biggest change in Albemarle County: With the election to the Board of Supervisors of Rodney Thomas and Duane Snow, who join fellow Republican Ken Boyd and Democrat Lindsay Dorrier, who's often accused of voting like a Republican, a more solid 4-2 majority could weigh heavily on upcoming county tax, growth, and water issues.
Biggest vote for freshman Congressman Tom Perriello: His support of the House's health care reform package has Jefferson Area Tea Party activists calling for his head– and seat– in a November 10 demonstration in front of his Glass Building office that draws close to 100 demonstrators and an equal number of Perriello supporters.
Biggest (wo)manhunt: Approximately 1,600 volunteers turn out to scour the area November 6-8 in hopes of finding clues to Morgan Harrington's disappearance October 17.
Biggest chicken farm bankruptcy: Black Eagle Farm in Nelson County files for protection November 4, one day before it was scheduled to be sold at auction for defaulting on a $5.29 million loan from Virginia National Bank, the Progress reports. The 2,000-plus acre farm will continue to sell its organic, free-range eggs and pasture-raised beef, cattle, and goats.
Most like Colombia: Four men plead guilty November 3 to plotting to kidnap the wives of wealthy Roanoke men and hold them for ransom, WCAV reports. Sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison November 2 are 20-year-olds Mohammed Hussein Guhad and Luke Elbino, and Joshua Kasongo, 19. Anthony Boyd-Muse, 18, receives 4½ years.
Most child porn convictions: Three area men plead guilty to kiddie porn possession November 5 in federal court. Ian A. Zearley, 28, of Charlottesville shared porn files; Mark Church, 41, of Louisa had his porn discovered by a technician when a friend took his computer in for repair; and William Kreutzer, 37, of Mineral was online with a cop pretending to be a mother who would provide him her seven-year-old girl, according to a release.
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Zippiest: UVA launches Zipcar, a program that makes three energy-efficient Honda hybrids and three Civics available for rental to students and staff– and residents– starting November 17 to provide an eco-friendly alternative to owning a car.
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Nice work. Thank you so much -- it's great to add another warp to the fabric of my understanding of our fine, fringe-of-the-known-world city, and to celebrate some of the people who sacrificed a hell of a lot to help others. The chronology also brings back many a fond memory of late 80s / early 90s inner-city living and early Hero parties and parades (note to self: must hunt out my astounding slides from Ponsonby Rd Hero), along with some slightly weirder memories of an unusual man I once knew (not in the biblical way) who would drag (not that kind of drag) me past the saunas and through Staircase, hoping some of it would, er, rub off on me (oh stop it). Lovely chap, just not my type.
The Charlotte Museum in Western Springs was also created to preserve and remember New Zealand's lesbian history.
For those interested, the Charlotte Museum website is at www.charlottemuseum.lesbian.net.nz.
An excellent read, thankyou. And some pretty powerful questions posed at the end...
Thanks from me too, David. I helped support a man with AIDS during the 80's and he used to talk of 'the old days' when he sometimes performed in drag. I was living in Auckland at the same time, though I didn't know him. But I was aware of the culture.
Your story illuminates so much of what the city was back then. And what it was in the 80's, when my son was part of the scene. They were fun days, yes, but tense. Many many funerals, though not, thank goodness of my son.
I remember going to the hospital with my friend for him to take part in a trial of some sort, to do with HIV. It involved having an infusion and there was him and another man taking part. At one time my friend left the cubicle for some reason and the other man spoke angrily to me. He talked of how gay men came from all sorts of places, not just the educated career people, the 'nice' people, but from the gutter as well. (I can hear him now, with a rough Scottish accent). I was taken aback at the violence of his speech, but it was something that needed to be said. Still is.
Was it George Gair, National, who swung the vote in parliament?
Thanks David for writing this up - it is important to have our history recorded.
I came out in 86, just after Gay Law Reform, and in the first full flush of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Interesting times then, and interesting times since.
Living in Auckland since 96 I've been privileged to witness some wonderful times, and some awful civic history.
R.I.P Neil, Kevin, Arthur (particularly Arthur, a beautiful man), and a few others I knew by sight.
Lovely piece that helps frame up how far we've come (and how far we've left yet to go). Thanks for that.
And who remembers the KG Club – the Karangahape Road Girl's Club or the Kamp Girls Club?
I do. And Alfies and the Out bookshop, where we used to buy amyl.
There were not so many people in the city back then, and I think the gay community, obliged to dwell on the perimeter, provided infrastructure for everyone else who felt a bit different.
I still have something of this relationship with gay men and lesbians my age and older. We share some sense of otherness.
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Lovely work, David, as always.
On the question of community, it's easier to come together when you have a common enemy and harder to create something positive when there's nothing to push against. It can be done, as the many communities of interest in society prove, and a big part of it will be the social scene - there will always be a need for gay clubs, pubs and other venues. If equality means anything, being gay should societally be just another tickbox on the census form, but this doesn't mean that gay men and women (in all our Heinz varieties) have to merge invisibly with the 'mainstream'. We will, however, have the communities we want to have, not the refuges we've been forced to inhabit on the outskirts in the past. So it's up to us to decide what it is we want.
For the record, bisexual man since 1980, never been much of a big deal to me, but found my community in theatre.
A neat reminder of [almost] another era. My introduction to gay Auckland was...The Gladiator. Located in upper Queen Street, it was a labrynth of filthy floors and rooms that centred on an equally filthy hot tub. Aaaaaaargh...heaven on a stick! Whatever happened to all those old LP covers that were attached to the ceiling in the changing room? I recall one night going there, getting my rocks off, going home and then going back again! What a dirty, filthy, disgusting, wonderful pig I was. And I loved every minute of it.
Thank you, David. Classy and informative.
Backstage covered two stories and worked on a system where an entry fee of $7 covered the night's drinking. It was the height of the disco era and the dance floor hustled with over 200 people a night. It was also an illegal venue and its opening hours, until 5am in the morning, were a novelty for Auckland
Can't walk past the back of The Classic without looking down at that door and smiling.
One of the things I'm most grateful for, and something hugely influential in the way I've seen and interacted with the world since, was living in that wonderful flat with seven gay guys in Parnell, yourself included, in the late 1970s. Best time of my life.
And, let's not forget, Backstage also had the best tunes in town...
Craig Ranapia, in reply to
We will, however, have the communities we want to have, not the refuges we've been forced to inhabit on the outskirts in the past. So it's up to us to decide what it is we want.
THIS! I'm not going to pretend 2012 New Zealand is Homo-topia, but having a significantly older partner -- you know, who lived the good old days where being outed out see you unemployed and homeless with jack shit you could do about it -- can be a *cough* useful corrective to excessive romanticism about the fabulous past.
And being (cough cough hack) somewhere on the grey end of the rainbow is a similar such corrective. I'm becoming olde and crinkly enough to remember these alleged 'good old days' myself and they weren't. I tended to pal around with dykes rather than spend much time with the narrow minded brain dead scene queens of ChCh as it was in the early eighties. And we could do with the brutal and repressive homophobia against PLWAs in the early days of HIV/AIDS, thanks very much.
All social movements tend to go through a utopian stage, as a reflection of their marginality. However, the more effective ones settle down to the hard, practical slog of legislative reform and forming strategic professional alliances to advance pragmatic, incremental objectives. And I speak as one who shouldered his fair share of picket signs back in the day...
Ye goddes, I agree with Namesake again. Must be mellowing in my 'middle youth" (shudder)...
Craig Y :)
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Thanks, Simon. I recall it very fondly as well, from the burning clothing on the clothes-line to the party that Chris Knox invited the whole Windsor Castle to...and, let's face it, you and I had the two best rooms in the house...
I think of Backstage quite a bit when in the vicinity too. I'm still extraordinarily impressed with the music we danced to, which was odd given NZ was so far down the music supply-line in the late 1970s - and currency-restrictions on how much could be imported...
The Backstage set-up with the $7 covercharge paying for a whole night of drinks was also fun. When I worked there we carried buckets around when we ran out of glasses because there was no impetus for people to keep track of their drinks and they'd just get another... So I know exactly the colour fifty barely-touched glasses of alcohol makes when poured in a bucket. And one of the enduring memories I have (besides trying to sweep the floors at 5am while tripping once) is the fashion for 'Brown Cows' (kahlua and milk) amongst young gay men then and Stan having to unpack pints and pints of milk to satisfy demand.. "Fucking milk!" ...
I have tried to source pics of Backstage for everything from Queer Nation to express to JACK magazine, and they don't seem to exist. Stan lost his photos in a fire and I've never heard of anyone who has one...
This made for such beautiful reading, thankyou, David. I remember the 80's, particularly, very well. It was a grim time in many ways, but I do remember the joy that the first Hero Parade brought to me. And later on, I was a marshall at a few of the parades and there for the death throes of the organisation. Whilst there has always been much debate around the "cleaning up" of the parades, I, for one, was always really pleased to be a part of that Auckland history.
Which isn't to say that I didn't rather enjoy David's stroll down memory lane. Excellent work.
I just missed the KG club, which met its demise just before I became part of the queer community.
But thanks for the reflection on where we were and how much things have really changed (while a few things remain the same).
I would like to mention the fact that lesbians weren't just playing in softball/soccer teams or creating newsletters (although those were important cultural icons). In the 80s and 90s, we were also dancing away at clubs like Juliana's, Tongue n Groove, whatever that bar was upstairs in Albert St with the iconic pool night, and Lasso upstairs in Staircase in its latter incarnation on K Rd.
Also, I'd like to acknowledge the important role Rainbow Youth (formed out of ALGY) has played for many GenX and Y youths (and young people like my nephew now) in supporting their coming out process and other advocacy. I never directly participated in their groups, but many many of my friends did, from the gay, lesbian, bi and trans subgroups. A fantastic support organisation.
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Thanks, TracyMac. I've bound your extra info into the bigger copy. Much appreciated.
This is probably the only place on the Internet where I can mention this; I was at a muffins and tea event after the Anzac dawn service and out of nowhere, a veteran started telling me, out loud, how many US servicemen he, um, bang using this new thing called "blow-job". A young man rush over and apologised after how his granddad is just "plain talking". They left as I sat there with my muffin.
Great article by the way.
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Possibly the very thing that made the war bearable for him - good job too. Likee.
Anyone Wellingtonians here who got to see Carmen during his lifetime?
Mum and I are off, in March, to see the NZSO performing works dedicated to her. It should be fabulous.
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Yup, Went to Carmen's Coffee bar a couple of times out of curiosity but left even more puzzled,
Thanks for this David, a fascinating article.
BTW I think the photographer is Neil Trubuhovich :-)
Christopher Dempsey, in reply to
Actually, I'm not surprised that you danced to good music during this time David.
In my research on public plazas in the CBD, I discovered that the National Mutual plaza, built in 1972 or thereabouts, on Shortland Street, was a direct copy (albeit smaller in size) of one in London. The style was international modern. On the property file are (IIRC) references to international architectural magazines, and I think a copy of an article about the London plaza.
I realised then that NZ wasn't necessarily the backwater I supposed it was. Architectural styles, and presumably other kinds of fashionable styles such as dance music, flowed down to NZ by various means.
One common way is for people coming home from London to bring stuff with them. I recall quite a number of gay men in Wellington during the late 80s who would return from London with the latest records (House music), which inevitably got played at the 'cool' nightclubs and at Victoria University Queer Dances (community dances).
If you read Dress Circle, you can see the same mechanism at work here as well. Fashion flowed here from London constantly, thanks to a system of people bringing magazines and materials back, which was translated into NZ conditions.
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When Amie Kromis walked SMU's graduation stage a year ago to accept her degree in corporate communications and public affairs, Thomas Kromis beamed with pride. As Amie's dad he had plenty to be proud of, but he also knew he would soon follow in her SMU footsteps.
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DALLAS (SMU) – SMU celebrated the academic accomplishments of more than 2,100 students at its 99th annual Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17, in the newly renovated Moody Coliseum.
"If we're not celebrating today, we're not living in this moment - and if we're not living in this moment, we will not succeed when we're in the depths of self-doubt," said featured Commencement speaker Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. "So live in this moment, graduates. Live in this moment, good parents.... Today, you can say you have done something very good."
"Who and what are you going to choose to love?" continued Rawlings. "It's a critical question, because it's through passionate love that we take learning and leadership and focus it and really start to make a difference in the world. You will have to make that choice yourself. But I hope you choose to love the we and not the me. I hope you choose to love the good in the world and not the gold in the world. I hope you choose to love your family - the one that's here today and the one that is coming in the future - and not fame."
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Elected mayor in 2011, Rawlings has created new strategies for growing the arts through the Mayor's Business Arts Initiative, has used his visibility as mayor to organize a campaign against domestic violence and has put Dallas in the spotlight by taking a leading role with the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Click here to read more about Mayor Rawlings.
During the ceremony, honorary degrees were conferred upon Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, Methodist historian Richard P. Heitzenrater and SMU law professor Joseph W. McKnight.
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Financial advisors follow changing markets, but do they perceive how markets are changing our society? That was the theme of a talk given at the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual summer rite for thinking people that featured among others Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, author of the new book "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets."
Sandel, best known for the popularity of his "Justice" course at Harvard which has been televised and also made available online, spoke to attendees at the Rocky Mountain festival which ended Tuesday of a bygone era in the 1960s when CEOs and mailroom clerks sat side by side at baseball games. Rich and poor alike "ate the same soggy hot dogs and drank the same stale beer," Sandel said.
But since the advent of skyboxes, which started in the 1980s and have spread in the decades that followed, going to a sports game is no longer the "class-mixing" experience it once was.
"Those who can afford it can sit in air-conditioned comfort high above the field behind Plexiglas. And it's no longer true that everyone waits in the same long lines for the restroom and […] gets wet when it rains," Sandel said.
The Harvard professor, who says skyboxes are not necessarily immoral and who admits to having enjoyed games from behind Plexigas himself, says the class-segregated entertainment dome is a "metaphor for a tendency playing itself out in American life as a whole."
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Reflecting on U.S. civic life a few days before the Fourth of July (Sandel spoke on Saturday), the Harvard professor said, "Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life."
Ordinary encounters between people from different social backgrounds is "how we learn to negotiate our differences, and this is how we come to care for the common good," he added.
Sandel, whose most recent book, "What Money Can't Buy," was published in April, concluded:
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