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Death Amongst Life (William T. SpearsxReader) "Honestly, _______, how many times have I told you to not slack off on the job?" William asks, glasses flashing threateningly. You blow him off, leaning back in your chair. "Will, I'm already done for now. I've finished all the paperwork: I only need to head out a little later and collect the souls. Don't get your knickers in a twist." You reply, opening one yellow-green eye. "My work space is cleaned and organized, as well. So just let me relax." Indeed, your work space was spotless, not a paper out of place. William just sighs and gets back to work. "Would you mind running some paperwork down to Ronald, then? I have too much work to do at the moment." You get up, annoyed, and rip the papers out of his hands. "Fine, I'll do it. But I'm not your freaking secretary, got it?" "Understood." He replies, eyes locked on the work set in front of him. You walk away, mind on overdrive. Why do all these damn men always have to treat me li
Power Outage (Gakuen!GermanyxReaderxGakuen!Romano) "__________? Do you have a minute?" Your best friend, Ludwig, asks, blushing profusely. Ludwig was a muscular guy, with blue eyes and blond hair that was always slicked back. He was German, and, though his appearance intimidated a lot of people, he was really a sweet person once you got to know him. "Sure," you shrug as he watches you. "_________, I....I...Ich liebe dich." He stutters, his eyes downcast. You stare at him in amazement, your (e/c) eyes wide. "L-Ludwig, I...thank you, but...I'm going out with Lovino. I-I'm sorry." "Nein, don't apologize. It vas my own fault." He says with a stoic face. "Ludwig...I really am sorry." "Forget about it, fraulein." "We-We can still be friends, right?" You ask hopefully. "J-Ja. Friends..." "Thanks. Do you want to hang out later?" Ludwig pauses, thinking it over. "Zat sounds...nice." Your face lights up at his response. "Danke, Ludwig!" You ex
Was it Really a Dream? (RussiaxReader) It was coming after you. You didn't know what it was exactly, only that it was a creature of Hell. You were running faster than you thought you could, adrenaline coursing through your veins. You look back quickly, and then... ...You were laying down in an empty classroom, a blanket covering your body. You try to move, only to feel a horrid, stabbing pain in your lower back. You close your eyes and roll to the side, trying to block out the light with the blanket. Students start filing into the room and take their seats, one prodding you before leaving. You're laying on your back again as you look to your right. The Italian twins, Feliciano and Lovino, were sitting next to you, both looking at you. While Romano looked like he wanted to help you, Feliciano gave you a look that clearly read, "What the fuck do you want me to do?" You focus on Feliciano, (e/c) orbs pleading with his brown orbs. You wake up, sitting bolt upright and panting. What the hell
My Horrible Mistake (PrussiaxCanada) "Gott, vy did I say zat?!" Gilbert, also known as the nation of Prussia, thought, walking through the park. His path was lit by the lamps on either side of the path he was on. It was beginning to rain, but he took no notice as his silver bangs drooped into his ruby eyes. All he could think about was how badly he had messed things up. ~Flashback brought to you by Gilbird~ Prussia walked up the stairs and knocked on the door quickly. Matthew, or Canada, opened the door, not expecting the albino. Prussia's frame stood in front of a grey expanse of clouds. "H-Hello, Prussia. W-What brings you here?" Canada asked, his quiet voice shaking. Prussia could tell he was uncomfortable with the situation. "I just zought I vould drop in. You know, l
Biscotti (GermanyxReader) "I'm using your kitchen, Ludwig!" You call to the blond German as you take out a bag of flour. "Vat are you doing zis time, __________?" He asks, coming up behind you. "Making Christmas cookies, duh! Biscotti, to be exact." "Isn't zat Feliciano's zing?" "Yeah, but he taught me how to make them. Besides, he's in Italy, remember?" You say, turning to face him. "Ja, but vy do you have to make zem?" He questions, pecking you cheek. "Because I like them. And you know you do, too, Luddy." "Vould you stop calling me zat? Anyvay, go ahead. Just don't make a mess." He says sternly, crossing his arms for emphasis, his steel blue eyes flashing. "Will do, Lud!" You say, getting to work. &
Stay Tonight (GermanyxChild!Neko!Reader: Part 2) You wake up to strange laughter filling the air. Rubbing your eyes slowly, you clamber out of bed and wrap yourself in a blanket as the cold air makes you shiver. Almost at the door, you reach out to grab the doorknob as the door slams open. "____________, are you alright?" Ludwig asks, looking slightly concerned. You nod, trying to conceal a yawn as he picks you up. "Are you sure? You're a little varm." He says, placing a large cupped hand on your forehead. "Feel fine. What's that noise?" You ask, snuggling into his chest. "Zat? Oh, zat's just mein older bruder, Pru-Gilbert. Don't vorry, he's not zat bad." A tall man with a shock of shining white hair steps into the room, the strange laugh rolling from his tongue. His eyes are a deep, bloody red, and his skin is pale. An albino, you think, sizing him up. "Kesesesese! Oh Vest, is zis your little girlfriend? Geez. I knew you vere a sadist und all, but I didn't know you vere in
Fooling Around (Chibi!EnglandxChibi!Reader) "Hey, Iggy!" You call out cheerfully as you spot your younger British friend. "___________? I thought I told you to not call me that nickname. What's wrong with 'Arthur?'" He asks, turning around a moment before you hug him. Even though you were older than Arthur by two years, he was the more mature one. You suspected that it was that way because Arthur strived to be the perfect gentleman when he was older. Though you would often scoff at his claims, he knew that you really were supporting him. "You were practicing your magic again, weren't you, Arthur?" You ask as you pull away from him, noticing the dark green wizard's robe you had gotten him draped around his shoulders. "Yes, I was, love. I think I'm getting better." He answers, his green orbs sparkling with pride. You chuckle, ruffling his platinum blond hair. "I'm sure you are." You reply, smiling widely. Catching a flash of mint green, you say, "Hey, Mint Bunny. What's up?" "
Gentleman Among Morons (Gakuen!EnglandxReader) "Hey, Arthur!" You call out as you notice your best friend and long-time crush, Arthur Kirkland. He had scruffy blonde hair, deep green eyes, bushy eyebrows, and a British accent, which made all the girls swoon, even you, though you tried not to show it. He turns around and waves as you start walking towards him. Before you could make your way over to him, though, Francis, the Frenchman with long, wavy blond hair and sky-blue eyes, came over and handed you a rose. The two of you were good friends, even though Francis could be quite the perv and flirted with you constantly. And even though Francis could be a perv sometimes, you, being quite the dirty-minded individual, laughed along with his jokes. "You are looking as lovely as ever, ma fleur.[1]" He said, eyes sparkling. This was your daily routine with Francis, and in all honestly, you knew it drove his fangirls wild with rage. You heard them talking in the halls about you, about why Francis would pick <
Dark Maple Leaves (Dark!CanadaxReader) "Matt, I'm going out." You call to your new boyfriend. His head appears around the corner and he smiles. "Just hurry back, ______." He says, violet eyes sparkling behind his glasses. Ever since you had gotten together, you were no longer invisible. People noticed you, and you had finally gotten a job. You had moved in with Matthew, as well. All things considered, life was good. You pulled up to a red light when it happened. Before you could move, the sound of metal being crushed and scraped was heard, and you felt your body go airborne for a moment. Everything was black as the sound of people yelling faded into the distance. ~Timeskip brought to you by Maple~ In and out, in and out, in and out. You woke to the sound of your own ragged breathing, body q
Demon's blood:Sebastian ~ chp.2Sebastian's POVI saw a flash of white quickly disappear. As I came around the corner I saw a dead end with no-one in it. How could she have escaped me?"why are you following me?" said a mysterious and sweet voice that came from the darkness. I stopped in my tracks I recognized that voice. An image flashed through my head along with a name rose.Jade's POVI stared at his face, Hmmm, he looks most like him than all the others, I thought to myself. But I know it can't be him he's been dead for so... long. but I don't want to think about that it's too painful. My dress ruffled in the midnight air. Inhaling, the fall air I walked towards the man. As I walked closer I saw his heart, I saw it beating. making a small gasp I realized that he... was a demon. Him, he's what I've been searching for. I pulled the knife from my sleeve I've never fought a demon before but it can't be that hard right?Sebastian's POV"come here." I asked and then the beautiful voice finally came to a body. a god
ClaudexReaderxSebastian Part 6A Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler FanfictionClaudexReaderxSebastian, Part 6Your Butlers, Argumentative~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*"My lady? My lady, are you all right? My lady… my lady…"A voice. Calling out to you in the darkness. You were trapped, it seemed, in the depths of what appeared to be an endless hell of black. A completely lightless world presented itself before you, giving you no hope. No hope for love, no hope for escape. In itself, it was almost a hell."My lady? Are you all right?"That voice again. It was there, always there, haunting you in your deepest dreams. There was no hiding or running from it. To try to do either one would be only to die. Only then could you be free from it forever.That voice. So familiar… Is it… is it Sebastian? No, no. This is different. It's… Claude?"Cl-Claude…" Your heavy eyelids refused to lift themselves, and so you moaned softly instead,
Pondering (SebastianxReader)Black Butler ~ SebastianxReader"Pondering"~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*It took you a while to think over the form and being of the man in black, someone that you had refused to acknowledge for months on end now. Why, his pale face and ivory hair, the gentle sway in his saunter, the delicately spoken words—they were something that you had no use for.Then why were you so interested?It wasn't that way. Of course it wasn't. Sebastian Michaelis was never your type of man. You weren't in the least looking for any sort of relationship that he or any other man had to offer. When the black-clad man and his fairly short companion had waltzed into the manor the other day looking for a job (or so he claimed?), you took instant notice. But out of what?Curiosity? Suspicion? Instinct? Something that couldn't be named?(First Name) (Last Name). You were a hard-working girl. Young, not quite strong, willing to do her best to keep from losing her job an
SebastianxReader: Dream He was always there, in your dreams.Every night, once you'd drifted off to sleep, he would be there. His crimson eyes would stare into yours with an enigmatic desire, his hypnotic smile entranced you to no end, and his raven hair felt soft against your cheek when he kissed you.His kiss...it was like a drug, always making you want more.He would always hold you so gently, wrapping you in a comforting, warm embrace, and he would croon softly into your ear with his deep, hypnotic voice.There was always something you didn't understand though. If it was only a dream...how were you able to feel it?How were you able to feel his soft hair, his warm embrace, and his addicting kiss?You sat on your couch, trying to make sense of it, when a soft chuckle reached your ears. You turned your head and a gasp lodged in your throat.Red eyes. Raven hair. Victorian clothing. It was him.He chuckled at your stunned look. "Speechless, my little one?" he crooned, his voice mesmerizing you yet ag
Sweet Dreams (SebastianxReader)Sweet DreamsSebastianxReaderCommissioned by EnelyaWolfwoodIt was rare for you to have a dream, even rarer for you to recall that dream the next morning, but, for some reason, that all disappeared.The first night wasn't all that strange. You could remember there was a man, tall and encased by shadows, but that was all you were really able to comprehend. The next night was just a bit clearer, enough for you to hear the man's low voice that commanded attention. It was enough for you to wonder about him.After a bit you suddenly began to notice little details about the man in your dreams, starting with the cat-like curl of his lips, his unearthly magenta eyes, and the sharp curve of his nose that seemed elegant on his thin face. Those eyes of his seemed to glow in your dreams after a bit.The fifth or sixth night of this reoccurring dream that didn't repeat itself, the shadows shrunk back away from the rest of his body. He was wearing a pressed suit that
That Butler, Daunting (SebastianxReader)That Butler, DauntingSebastianxReaderRequest for elfkenaThe metal doorknob felt cold under your hand, but you clutched it anyways, slowly turning until the door clicked open. You poked your head around the door and sighed, thankful that the disastrous chef with a tendency to set things on fire wasn't yet awake.Quickly, you made your way to the storage room, pulling out ingredients to make a cake for the young master's birthday. A can of Earl Grey tea was higher up on the shelves and you stretched to reach it, placing one hand on the shelf below to steady yourself.Finally wrapping your frigid fingers around the metal can, you silently cheered and began to lower yourself."What exactly are you doing?" you hear a cool voice say from behind you.You jumped, nearly dropping the can you worked so hard to retrieve from your hands. Turning around, you saw the butler of the Phantomhive manor smiling threateningly at you. "Se-sebastian!" you
RQ: SebastianXReaderThe soul of the young man slipped through the young demon's throat like honey. So sweet and delicious, it almost made her drunk. The young demon pulled away from the youth, watching as his body fell to the ground like a rag doll. For five years she's been at his beck and call, comforting him when he asked for it, singing to him his favorite songs, even satisfying some of his desires, and then delivering the perfect revenge against his abusive brother, the only family has had left, yet they were far from it. HIs older brother would torment him, treat him like a prisoner in his own home, that was until he called out for someone to help him. That's when she showed up. She came to him in the form of a black cat, asking him what his greatest wish was and then sealing a contract with him. His greatest wish was for his brother to suffer the way he did, and after five years, it's been done, ending with his brother's, torturous death.She walked away from her ex-ma
Help Needed Sebastian X Reader You were sitting on the small front porch of your home when an urgent letter arrived for you. It was from the Phantomhive estate. Quickly ripping into it, you noticed the letter was from Sebastian. The letter read as follows: Dearest companion,I am dreadfully sorry for the lack of notice, however I am in dire need of your assistance today. The young master has planned for a rather large get together for the investors of his company without my knowledge. I am one hell of a butler, but this is simply too much to do on my own. I do hope you will be able to help me today, I trust no one more fully with this task. Sincerely, Sebastian Michaelis"Well that was certainty nice of Ciel to do." You sighed and placed the letter in your dress pocket. "Better go." You stood from your chair and quickly made your way to
ClaudexReaderxSebastian Part 7ClaudexReaderxSebastian, Part 7Your Butlers, Loyal~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*You debated whether to take this matter into your own hands or to allow Sebastian and Claude to take care of it. A letter from the Queen—the Queen herself! It was an honour, you knew, a true honour. The letter lay in your hands, light and perfect, waiting to be opened by its recipient.It was to remain there for quite a long, long time."My lady?" Sebastian peered down at you quietly with flashing crimson eyes. You knew his question even before he uttered it: Will you open it?Will you open it and make yourself bound to the role that you are obliged to play? The role as the Queen's guard dog, just as your parents before you? Will you turn yourself into another lady of the (last name) family?You pondered it momentarily. Would you do that? You had been taught, from birth, that you were responsible to carry on the duty of your family, that of your father and his before him.
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… challenging the Summers model.
… challenging the Summers model.
A beautiful life massacred. In two weeks their first child would have been born.
Elif Yavuz, 33, was born in Turkey, raised in the Netherlands, and educated here in the United States, at Harvard. Her partner was from Tasmania but like her a totally global citizen.
As an HSPH doctoral student [in the Department of Global Health and Population], Elif completed her dissertation research on malaria in eastern Africa," [Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio] Frenk wrote. "[She] had lived and worked abroad for many years, both in Africa and in Asia. She was currently working with the Applied Analytics Team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative [a global organization based in Boston] and preparing her thesis for publication."
Fadela Amara, "[French] founder of the activist group Ni Putes Ni Soumises, translated as 'Neither Whores nor Submissive,' and later … the Secretary of State for Urban Policies," spoke a couple of days ago about France's anti-burqa law at the University of Chicago's International House (UD lived in an apartment directly across the street from I House when she studied there).
Amara knows France's fundamentalist ghettos well; she has watched them become cults of "forced marriage, polygamy, [female] circumcision, and violence against women." Outlawing the full burqa (the law had seventy percent support among the French) has had some effect on
[t]he strategy of radical Islamists … to send in veiled women to force unveiled women to wear the burqa. And this is a real battle that has been going on for 15 years in France. And women who do not wear the veil, who were refusing to wear the veil, have been harassed and attacked, either verbally or physically — verbally by insulting them and calling them sluts, because for them these are not women who are respectable…. So we decided to stop all of this. And to act in a way to protect the women who were resisting in these neighborhoods.
Israel – where any woman who boards certain buses or walks on certain streets can be assured of being called a slut and spat on – could learn from the way France is dealing with its fundamentalist bullies.
That was just a few months ago; and now Rita Levi Montalcini has died, age 103.
She won a 1986 Nobel for her work in nerve growth factor; a few years later, she started a foundation for the scientific education of African women. Well into her hundreds, she spent part of each day at the lab, and part at the foundation.
An atheist, she said the reason she lived so long was selflessness – she never cared or thought much about herself, but spent her energy on scientific and social problems that engrossed her. Pesky obstacles like a sexist father, fascism, anti-semitism, and a whole lot more sexism, were ignored, or somehow gotten around.
… for having understood what Columbia University's Sudhir Venkatesh was long before the New York Times got wind of it. Her post about Columbia's adorably rogue sociologist appeared way back in April 2009, and her attack on his book about living in a Chicago housing project tells you a lot about the power of the singular, agile, independent blogger to get out ahead of issues (look how long – with a few exceptions – it took everyone else), and about the power of a true education in the methods and ethics of particular scholarly fields.
Of course TR couldn't know, when she wrote, that Venkatesh's financial ethics are apparently as shaky as his scholarly; she couldn't have read these 2010 accounts of his teaching (missing many classes; making highly-selected, immense-tuition-paying Columbia students watch YouTubes when he was too busy to show up); but no one reading her devastating review of his book can miss the larger picture of this man as another in the lengthening line of Jonah Lehrers, Marc Hausers, and Johan Haris.
All of these men, when cornered, said a version of what Venkatesh has said:
I was overwhelmed, I was working both at Columbia and at the FBI, and I struggled to keep up.
In all of these cases, we're supposed to sympathize with people making up research (Hauser) and quotations (Lehrer, Hari), misusing funds (Venkatesh), and lying to pretty much everyone — because they're so destructively ambitious that they've taken on more than they can handle.
When Tenured Radical went after Sudhir Venkatesh in 2009, several of her readers, in the comment thread, accused her of envy. One of his friends, quoted in the New York Times story, accuses his detractors of envy.
Envy's a beaut. UD's all-time favorite use of it has to be Greg Mankiw's and Eric Cantor's, as they labor away against new tax policies. People who aren't rich envy rich people and want to hurt them — that's what changes in taxation are about.
Envy's a real human emotion, to be sure. A biggie. But just because everyone's susceptible to it, and just because it's so low, cynical argumentative opponents realize it can be a hell of a good button to push. Instantly it distracts people from the intrinsic legitimacy of your arguments; it makes it all about you, and your grubbiest motivations. It is the quintessence of ad hominem technique.
Bravo to TR, then, not merely for having seen Venkatesh before others saw him, but for standing up to the you're envious folk.
A statistics professor at Columbia recalls:
When Sudhir was in charge of Iserp, he told us that they were out of money and would not be able to honor existing commitments. Or, to be more precise, that things that I considered commitments were not actually so because they had only been transmitted orally, and that more generally Iserp was broke and could not support research in the way that we had expected. I was pretty angry about that, but when Sudhir informed me that he was suddenly stepping down as head of Iserp to work on a project with the Justice department, I assumed that he was better suited to be a researcher than an administrator and I offered him statistical help with his DOJ project if he ever needed it. I figured he was back on the research track and that this was better for all concerned. I don't think I'd be a very good administrator myself, so I just figured Sudhir had been over his head. I've only seen him once since, it was a year or so ago at a sociology seminar, but we were sitting in different areas of the room and I had to leave early, so we did not get a chance to speak.
When I later heard that hundreds of thousands of dollars were missing, that put a different spin on the story. I had heard rumors of an investigation but I'd never known that there was an official document, dated Aug 4, 2011 (nearly a year and a half ago!) detailing $240,000 of questionable expenses including $50,000 for fabricated business purposes. If, as Sudhir is quoted as saying in the news article, he's only paid pack $13,000 of this, I assume more will happen. It's not clear why the university would pay a salary to someone who still owes them over $200,000.
If IKEA doesn't want embarrassing protests like these in its stores, it should think twice before erasing all images of women from its catalogs.
Background here.
University of Georgia student newspaper Editor in Chief Polina Marinova — who walked out to protest the paper's takeover by a board with the same sure-footed sense of how universities work that the University of Virginia trustees recently showed — now returns to the editorial office triumphant, vindicated.
She walked out by herself (background here), but was followed soon after by the rest of the staff. Non-stop international media coverage of the scandal ensued, just as it did in the case of the University of Virginia trustees' effort to toss out the university's president.
Now the fools who tried to turn The Red & Black into an arm of the university's public relations office have apologized; one of them has resigned; and the students will apparently be reinstated.
Polina, Polina.
Gal, you're on my mind.
… has died.
Among many other things, she was a physics professor at UC San Diego.
Charming memories of time spent in libraries.
Schmaltzy, but why not.
The board just voted unanimously to reinstate her.
This is not a surprising outcome. Students and faculty deserve, on this beautiful summer day, to celebrate, and I'm sure they will. They responded strongly and immediately to what really does seem to have been an attempted coup.
I actually think this story was au fond about human rather than university values.
Remember the famous letter that guy who quit Goldman Sachs wrote? ("[I]f you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.") That thing was everywhere — New York Times and everywhere. Remember? Everyone was talking about it. Why?
Because nobody really wants to become a vampire squid. Some people want to become rich and powerful, but few – beyond a scattering of psychopaths – like the idea of reviewing their lives at the end of days and realizing that all that time they were Lloyd Blankfein. We live in a capitalist economy and a competitive culture, and we all deal with that in various ways; but it's terribly important to us that there be locations in our country where exclusively market-driven values do not dominate.
Teresa Sullivan is a typical, traditional university president in that she is always trying to balance bottom line exigencies with the university's higher calling, its status as one of the rare places in the United States where serious people gather to do something other than engage in commercial trade. She lives in the world of humane studies. Humane. Humanistic. Having to do with human beings, and bringing to human beings moral as well as intellectual seriousness. Evolving a sense of the diversity, complexity and vulnerability of human beings — think of all those literature courses — and ultimately perhaps evolving a way of dealing with other human beings that reflects an understanding of diversity, complexity, and vulnerability.
The moguls on the board of visitors at U Va were – to put it very simply – cruel. They gave no thought to the vulnerability of Teresa Sullivan; they simply summoned her and bullied her out of a job. They humiliated her. It is not enough to succeed; others must fail, says La Rochefoucauld. That is the world outside — and, sadly, to some extent, inside — the university. When it reveals itself with such clarity as it just did at one of our greatest public universities, our anxieties over what we're turning into at the highest financial levels of our culture — amoral acquisitive people who positively enjoy hurting others — we respond with great vehemence, as the Goldman Sachs guy who couldn't take it anymore did.
I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It's purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. If you were an alien from Mars and sat in on one of these meetings, you would believe that a client's success or progress was not part of the thought process at all.
It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as "muppets," sometimes over internal e-mail. Even after the S.E.C., Fabulous Fab, Abacus, God's work, Carl Levin, Vampire Squids? No humility? I mean, come on. Integrity? It is eroding.
We all know it's eroding; and we all know that it continues to be the case that the people who are the most eroded get the biggest rewards. Most of us want in some instinctive way to protect our universities from that process of erosion. When messengers from that world emerge into sunlight, we pounce. It's the only thing to do.
Tunisia's Manouba University is a major site of resistance to Salafist activity in that country.
Students, faculty, and administration are fighting back strongly, and the government, after first remaining silent about the Salafists blocking classes there until women can attend in full veil, has now condemned them.
Coverage here from the university's website (in French).
If Tunisia's not careful, it's going to start looking like Israel.
One of our fellow guests asked Christa, our innkeeper, this as we all ate breakfast this morning.
Well, there was one time… I knew it would be bad, so I told my guests – a young couple – they should leave one day early, before the big snow hit. "No," they said; "we have an SUV. We'll be fine." So down came the snow and that SUV wasn't going anywhere… I knew we'd be in for a few rough days, but I had some food in my freezer and I was able to cook simple meals.
We spent a lot of time chatting at the fireplace, and one evening I mentioned that I was going to miss an opera in Charlottesville and the young man says "You like opera?" And I said "I love opera." And he said, "Well, we can sing for our supper."
And his girlfriend turned out to be an opera singer! Her name is Hyunah Yu, and … well I'll put on one of her cds.
So now there's this strong melancholy soprano wafting a Bach cantata through the mountain house, and Christa tells us her story. "She was going to be a doctor…"
You can read the harrowing story here.
Here's a YouTube that features her singing Amazing Grace.
Quite a life she's had. And she's still punching – hard - in her eighties.
Final exchange from an interview she gave fourteen years ago.
CP: In closing, what kind of advice would you give to young people today?
AH: None. When I was young I hated it when old people gave me advice.
… has died.
Libera Me, from Verdi's Requiem, 1967, with Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic.
From Anthony Tommasini's obituary:
Ms. Sutherland was a plain-spoken and ordinary person, who enjoyed needlepoint and playing with her grandchildren. Though she knew who she was, she was quick to poke fun at her prima donna persona.
"I love all those demented old dames of the old operas," she said in a 1961 Times profile. "All right, so they're loony. The music's wonderful."
Tried to find a YouTube of her singing some Purcell, but expected nothing and found nothing. Not really her thing. Here's something vaguely Purcellian, three baroque arias.
Mr UD read this New York Times article to UD yesterday, over breakfast. One of UD's readers, David, also sent it to her. As if its content weren't moving enough, there's the photo.
UD instantly thought of the David Hare play, Plenty.
Inside Higher Education interviews Eva von Dassow about her recent powerful statement to the University of Minnesota's clueless, condescending regents.
… [W]hile cuts are being ordered, she said [in her filmed presentation to the university's leadership] that the new frugality "leaves undiminished the numbers of vice presidents not to mention the salaries of coaches. No, these highly paid positions are not to be reduced. Rather, the university must shed faculty," she said.
Von Dassow is part of a new organization at the university – Faculty for the Renewal of Public Education. These people have figured out the contents of the strategic initiative.
1. Put the kiddies online.
2. Invest most of our money in sports.
3. Support only vocational, money-making programs.

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Really? So what's the deal with the Trayvon Martin case where the neighborhood watch guy actually follows the kid on the street, initiates a conflict despite being told specifically by the 911 operator not to pursue the kid and shoots the kid dead, yet does not get arrested?
I'm not trying to start an argument about the right to bear arms, just genuinely curious about your knowledge of Florida gun laws and how they do or don't apply in the Trayvon Martin case.
There is a situation where you do not have to retreat if attempting to prevent a forcible felony. Good guys won and Mr. Martin won't be doing that again.
776.012 Use of force in defense of person.A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the others imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of deadly force and
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Middle East protests inspire poll campaign in GoaMarch 1st, 2011 - 5:32 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 1 (IANS) Popular rebellions in the Arab world have found an echo in Goa, where a citizens' collective is trying to cobble up support for 'honest' candidates in the state's only municipal corporation, the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP). "The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries there should be a lesson to all of us. To overthrow such a corrupt municipal regime, these populist movements should be models for us," Oscar Rebello, convenor of the Panajiites Initiative for Change (PINC), said Tuesday.
The poll is to be held March 13.
Rebello, a medical practitioner and a leading civil society campaigner here, said they are endorsing a list of 29 'credible and honest' candidates for the CCP, which has 30 constituencies. Lawyers, working professionals and a journalist are some of the candidates backed by the PINC.
PINC has said it will lobby for cancelling of trade licences to off shore casino vessels, which are parked in the Mandovi river, which flows alongside the capital.
PINC has also opposed the construction of skyscrapers in Panaji, which has several heritage buildings.
"We are tired of corruption. Virtually every couple of months a new scam in the corporation has emerged, with no action being taken against the accused," said retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Arvind Bhatikar, also a member of the PINC.
The ruling corporator panel in the CCP, which is backed by Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate, has been ridden by scandals, some of the most infamous ones being the pay-parking scam, the ghost worker salary scam, the shop allotment scam in which several corporators were allegedly involved.
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- Is Parrikar going soft on ruling Goa Congress? (News Analysis) - Feb 24, 2011
- Minister in trouble again, could alter poll pitch (Goa newsletter) - Feb 03, 2012
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- After ousting Congress, BJP has to deliver on promises (Goa Newsletter) - Mar 24, 2012
- Bribe cloud over Goa minister set to fight poll - Feb 04, 2012
- Scam-tainted Congress looks to repeat win in Goa - Dec 25, 2011
- Goa schools oppose 'no fail' policy this academic year - May 17, 2011
- Opposition boycotts Goa house on final session day - Apr 08, 2011
- Goa house again adjourned over minister's detention - Apr 08, 2011
- Goa assembly disrupted over minister's customs detention - Apr 05, 2011
- Three Goa ministers' kin among Congress nominees - Feb 07, 2012
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A day after the surprise announcement that CIA Director David Petraeus was resigning because of marital infidelity, the pundits continue to miss the supreme irony. None other than the head of the CIA (and former bemedaled four-star general) has become the first really big fish netted by the intrusive monitoring of the communications of American citizens implemented after 9/11.
It is unclear whether it is true that, according to initial reports, Petraeus's alleged mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell, was caught trying to hack into his e-mail. What does seem clear is that the FBI discovered that she had "unusual access" (to borrow the delicate wording of this morning's New York Times) to Petraeus during his time as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan from July 2010 to July 2011. The potential for compromise of sensitive information is equally clear.
Not surprisingly, Establishment pundits are disconsolate that their beloved David Petraeus has been brought down in such a tawdry way. They are already at work trying to salvage his legacy as the implementer of George W. Bush's much-heralded "successful surge" in Iraq (even though the sacrifice of nearly 1,000 more dead U.S. soldiers did little more than provide a "decent interval" between Bush's departure from office in 2009 and the final U.S. withdrawal/defeat at the end of 2011).
Among those lionizing/eulogizing Petraeus on the morning after his resignation was Washington Post columnist (and longtime CIA apologist) David Ignatius, who argued that Petraeus "achieved genuinely great things." Ignatius's lamented Petraeus's admission of the extramarital affair with the poignancy you might find in a novel by Leo Tolstoy or Victor Hugo about an admirable but ill-fated hero.
Ignatius, too, was a writer who was embedded with Petraeus and was dazzled by his charm. Ignatius wrote that he "spent nearly three weeks traveling with [Petraeus] during his CENTOM assignment, and saw how he fused the political and military aspects of command, as he met with sheiks and presidents and intelligence chiefs, in a way that should have been captured in a textbook for future commanders."
But Ignatius inadvertently acknowledged the futility of Petraeus's approach to Bush's wars. The Post columnist wrote: "For all Petraeus's counter-insurgency doctrine, his Afghanistan command often appeared to be the equivalent of building on quicksand. No sooner were the Afghan forces 'stood up' than they would begin to slip away, back into the culture that was deeply, stubbornly resistant to outside pressure. In his last month in Kabul, Petraeus had all the tools of victory in hand except one — the Afghan people and institutions."
So much for Petraeus's "brilliant" counter-insurgency doctrine. He had all the tools except the Afghan people and institutions, the two requisites for winning a counter-insurgency war!
To Army officers schooled in the basics, it was very hard to understand why the top Army leadership persuaded President Barack Obama to double down, twice, in reinforcing troops for a fool's errand. And let's face it, unless you posit that the generals and the neoconservative strategic "experts" at Brookings and AEI were clueless, the doubling down was not only dumb but unconscionable.
As commander in Afghanistan, Petraeus was able to elbow the substantive intelligence analysts in Washington off to the sidelines. It is a safe bet those analysts who know something about Afghanistan (and, better still, about Vietnam) would have rolled their eyes and wished Gen. Westmoreland – oops, I mean Petraeus – good luck.
As for winning hearts and minds, it was Petraeus who shocked Afghan President Hamid Karzai's aides by claiming that Afghan parents might have burned their own children in order to blame the casualties on U.S. military operations.
And the same Petraeus eagerly increased the incredibly myopic drone strikes in Pakistan, killing thousands of civilian "militants" and creating thousands more to contend with in the "long war" now alienating a nuclear-armed country of 185 million people.
If, by now, you get the idea that I think David Petraeus is a charlatan (and I am not referring to sexual escapades), you would be correct. The next question, however, is his replacement and whether the policies will change.
Mr. President, with the mandate you have just won, you have a golden chance to reverse the March of Folly in Afghanistan. You can select a person with a proven record of integrity and courage to speak truth, without fear or favor, and with savvy and experience in matters of State and Defense.
There are still some very good people with integrity and courage around – former Ambassador Chas Freeman would be an excellent candidate. Go ahead, Mr. President. Show that you can stand up to the Israel lobby that succeeded in getting Freeman ousted on March 10, 2009, after just six hours on the job as Director of the National Intelligence Council.
And there are still some genuine experts around to help you enlist Afghanistan's neighbors in an effort to ease U.S. troop withdrawal well before the 2014 deadline. The faux experts – the neocon specialists at Brookings, AEI and elsewhere – have had their chance. For God's sake, take away their White House visiting badges at once.
Create White House badges for genuine experts like former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East Paul Pillar, former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson, and military historian and practitioner Andrew Bacevich (Lt. Col., USA, ret.). These are straight-shooters; they have no interest in "long wars"; they will tell you the truth; all you need do is listen.
Do not listen this time to the likes of your counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, a former CIA functionary who was staff director for CIA Director George "slam-dunk" Tenet. Brennan will probably push for you to nominate Petraeus's deputy and now Acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who did the same dirty work for Tenet that Brennan did.
Morell is even more likely to take his cues from Brennan and tell you what he and Brennan want you to hear. At best, Morell is likely to let things drift until you move on Petraeus's replacement. And this is no time for drift.
There is absolutely no reason to prolong the agony in Afghanistan until the end of 2014. Doubling down on Afghanistan might have seemed a smart political move at the time, but you now should face the fact that it was a major blunder. Troops out now!
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He served as an Army infantry/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and then as a CIA analyst for 27 years. He now serves on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
A longer version of this article first appeared on consortiumnews.com.
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Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his "New Collected Poems" (Counterpoint).


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You are AMAZING! I think it is wonderful that this happened for you. I have been in therapy for more than 2 years and only after i told my therapist enough with the food issues and that i wanted to work on other areas of my life was i finally able to start turning things around and i too realized i would eat out of anger. I get mad at a friend or family member and because i also want to be the "good girl" i eat to stuff the words back in my mouth and to stuff my feeling back down inside. Now ii am learning how to talk to people when i am upset by them and that sometimes i have to walk away to gather myself together because i don't want to turn things into world war III.
I am also learning sometimes the anger stems from the frustration over having no control over what others do that end up affecting my life but i am learning even if i have no control over the situation i do have control over how i react and eating does not make anything better so i too get to the gym or go for a ride. I also have a journal that have that can get so mean and horrible i have had to put some pages through the shredder because if anyone read what i wrote i could hurt people a really do love (most of the time).
you did a great job . I we eat when we think about it and are angry this food does us more harm then good . great way to divert your feeling . sounds like your mom is a real prize .
sugarsmom2 donna wva
You "done" yourself proud!
Without knowing all that has gone before, I question your not wanting your children to see your pain. When they witness your positive way of handling emotional pain, isn't that a good life lesson for them to take into adulthood?
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Yes i have felt like that.. never drove to a fast food place thou.. yelling or do what you can to feel better so you dont do something you regret later.. is a good idea..! Hang in there things will get better...
loving myself as i am beautiful inside and out!!! Think positive .. you can do it!!!..... i do care.��Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.� � Don't give up we all can do this!!
Lost 110 pounds so far! i am loving it!
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Yes i can relate to what you are talking about. except i usually end up eating i haven't been able to just allow myself to feel what it is that i am feeling. I am glad that you didn't turn to food and allowed yourself to feel angry. and congrats on your weight loss
Yup! I bet that anyone who is an emotional eater with toxic people in their life has done this...The trick is to realize it, appreciate the 'aha!' moment, and do something FOR YOU....Nothing TASTES as good as taking control of your life FEELS!
Good for you. I can sometimes have a good outcome but mostly I still eat. Your story will be with me the next time I am trying to use "food" as a healer.
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You are what you think you are.
I am sorry to hear about your mother's treatment of you- but we can't control what other's do to us, only how we react to it. And I must say - you have done an AMAZING job of finding a healthier way to handle the issue. You are darn right - you have the right to your feelings. Vent them instead of stuffing them!! WTG!
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Good move and attitude, donna! && wonderful post even if it did hurt ou to write it.
I'm really sorry your mother is this kind of person. she should love you and honor you as you do her.
Your situation is like many of us. Anger is an emotion.
You rock in how you handled it.
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I am so sorry that you have an abusive mother. Congratulations on yelling in the car and not ordering food to numb your feelings. How mature you handled the situation. Tears heal and are well spent when necessary.
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Donna, that is really an incredible story, and so inspiring! I am so proud of you, and I don't even know you. your story gave me chills. I am horrified by your mothers behaviour, but you took care of YOU. You didn't give her power over YOU. That is really wonderful. Congratulations and I hope I can learn from you.
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woohhhwww hooowwww! Realblonde!
That was such an incredible gift that you gave yourself! I have never had such a drastic situation but there have been times when I have been able to stop the robotic self from sabotaging me. It is that trance like behavior - I don't remember getting the food nor eating it. I seem to wake up on the last bite feeling ashamed, guilty, deflated and NOT even satisfied!
Good for you! Keep up the good work
Hello to my fellow EE's:
I think this fits in this forum as it truly relates to my emotions, food and how to handle.them.
A few days ago after hearing some news from my kids regarding my mother and her weird relationship with my abusive ex husband (too much and too messy to detail here but let's just say she has said on more than one occasion she prefers him to me, spends holidays with him, his sweetie of the week and his family) I jumped in my car and started to drive to the gym.
I was trying hard so that my three teenagers wouldn't see my tears. I mean I know exactly what kind of person my mother is but I don't want my kids to see my pain. She does loves my children.
And suddenly my car turned into a fast food restaurant. I sat there for a moment (no food just sobbing) and realized that I WAS NOT HUNGRY, I was just MAD AS HELL at my mom and the situation. Telling her for the eupth time that it's hurts my feelings wouldn't help or matter.
But what helped me was realizing that it was OK for me to be MAD and instead of medicating myself with food (to be a "good girl") I could yell in my car, walk at the park or take a class at gym. Most importantly I COULD BE MAD and ANGRY.
Since this realization a couple of days ago, I have have stopped my slow upward spiral on the scale and I am back down almost 4 pounds.
I share this because my "MOMENT" turned me around...has anyone else had this happen or a moment like this?
Hugs to y'all
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