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- Introduction
- Anglican Communion
- Baptist Churches
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Churches of Christ
- Church of Christ, Scientist
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- PROTESTANT CHURCHES: Lutheran Communion
- Methodist Churches
- Pentecostal Churches
- Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregational Churches
- Religious Society of Friends
- Salvation Army
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Unitarian (Universalist) Churches
- The United Church of Canada
- United Church of Christ
- Adherents of all religions by continent
Religion and violence were linked in several prominent incidents in 1993, including a shoot-out in Texas, a bombing in New York City, and rioting in India. But in the midst of conflict, interfaith understanding made progress, too. Homosexuality, the role of women, financial problems, and church-state relations provided challenges for religious groups during the year. (For figures on adherents of all religions by continent, see below.)
The fiery demise of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, that claimed the lives of David Koresh and at least 74 of his followers--preceded by a shoot-out in which four federal agents were killed--focused attention on how to define and deal with cults. The Seventh-day Adventist Church took pains to disassociate itself from the Koresh group, noting that the latter began as a sect in 1959 when it left a group that had itself earlier broken away from the Adventists. (See Seventh-day Adventist Church, below.) A statement issued after the Waco events by 16 religious and civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Council of Churches, said, "Under the religious liberty provisions of the First Amendment, government has no business declaring what is orthodox or heretical, or what is a true or false religion."
Islamic fundamentalism came into the limelight again when followers of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman were indicted on conspiracy charges in the February bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, in which six people were killed and 1,000 injured. Abdel-Rahman's insistence on the use of the Qurˋan to govern Islamic societies and his advocacy of violence to overthrow Muslim leaders who disagree were criticized by a number of mainstream Islamic scholars, and several major mosques had refused to grant him a forum even before the bombing. (See WORLD AFFAIRS: Middle Eastern Affairs: Special Report.)
Members of an extremist Hindu movement called the Shiv Sena attacked Muslim neighbourhoods in Bombay and touched off riots that left hundreds dead in January. In August a bomb destroyed the Madras office of another militant Hindu group, killing at least 10 people and injuring 4. Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was widely criticized for failing to take strong action against Hindus following the violence in Bombay. (See Hinduism, below.)
Some of India's interfaith conflicts made their way to the Parliament of the World's Religions, a nine-day gathering held in Chicago that drew representatives of Bahaˋi, Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Native American, Shinto, Sikh, Taoist, Unitarian, and Zoroastrian groups. At an early session, a Sikh from Punjab denounced Hindus for persecuting his faith, touching off a shouting match that ended only when police arrived. Some Zen Buddhists objected to prayers offered to God, saying that they "can practice religion with or without God." Orthodox Christians walked out to protest the involvement of neopagans and other groups that "profess no belief in God or a supreme being." Four Jewish organizations withdrew as sponsors to protest an appearance by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, whom they accused of having promoted religious intolerance.
Despite these problems, the parliament ended with an address in which the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, stressed the common teachings--compassion, forgiveness, and love--of the major faiths and with the signing of a "Global Ethic" statement that condemned environmental destruction, hunger, poverty, sexual discrimination, and violence, especially "aggression and hatred in the name of religion."
Catholic-Jewish relations got a boost when one of Israel's two chief rabbis, Israel Meir Lau, spiritual leader of Israel's Jews of European descent, met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in September and when the Vatican recognized the state of Israel in December. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America asked its ecumenical affairs department to prepare a statement addressed to the Jewish community repudiating "the anti-Judaic rhetoric and violent recommendations" of Martin Luther.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to endorse the Consultation on Church Union (COCU) plan for mutual recognition of ministers and joint celebration of communion, becoming the third of its nine member denominations and the first large mainline body to take the step. In St. Louis, Mo., in July, two other COCU members, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, held joint national meetings for the first time. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to work toward a 1997 deadline for achieving full communion with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Reformed Church in America, and United Church of Christ.
An ecumenical celebration of the 400th anniversary of the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden drew the participation of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople; Edward Cardinal Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; and Bishop John Hind of the Church of England. A conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, sponsored by the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches (WCC) drew 400 participants. WCC General Secretary Konrad Raiser called for "a new ecumenical reality" that would go beyond official theological dialogues. Greek Orthodox Archbishop Stylianos of Australia, who chaired the Orthodox delegation to the meeting, said the Orthodox participants were "deeply offended" by some comments made at the gathering, apparently referring to remarks in favour of ordination of women and shared communion.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved a three-year churchwide study on whether to ordain practicing homosexuals while retaining its ban on allowing them to serve as clergy, elders, and deacons. The action at the church's General Assembly in Orlando, Fla., touched off a demonstration by more than 60 people, including the Rev. Jane Spahr, a lesbian whose clergy appointment by a congregation in Rochester, N.Y., was overturned by the denomination's highest court in 1992. Leaders of the National Council of Churches (NCC) made plans for a discussion involving representatives of its 32 member churches and of homosexual groups, including the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, which had tried unsuccessfully for more than a decade to gain membership or observer status in the NCC. Mel White, an evangelical writer who ghostwrote books for the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, announced his homosexuality when he was installed as dean of the 1,200-member Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, Texas, which describes itself as the world's largest gay and lesbian congregation. (See Special Report.)
The Anglican dioceses of Vermont and Toronto elected women bishops in 1993; only one woman had previously been elected to such a position in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Mennonite Church chose Donella M. Clements as its moderator, making her the first woman to hold its top position. The Christian Reformed Church (CRC), which had debated ordination of women for several years, voted at its synod to allow local congregations to decide the matter for themselves. Although another synod would have to ratify the resolution before it could be implemented, the action touched off immediate protests by conservatives, including a group of Korean-American church leaders who formed a breakaway body that included more than a third of the CRC's 47 Korean-language congregations. A week before the CRC synod met, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, a smaller, evangelical church body, urged the CRC to repent over its "departure from the Scriptures in its doctrine and practice." The Church of England's 1992 decision to open the priesthood to women led some opponents, including the retired bishop of London, to join the Roman Catholic Church.
A growing number of cases involving sexual misconduct of Catholic clergy prompted Pope John Paul II to set up a panel of Vatican and U.S. Catholic Church experts to determine how best to handle such matters under church law, while the U.S. bishops established their own eight-member committee on the matter. The pope won cheers from 186,000 youths who attended a week-long international gathering in Denver, Colo., but surveys found that many Catholic teens took issue with the church's teachings on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality. In an encyclical titled Veritatis splendor, Latin for "The Splendour of Truth," John Paul said opposition to church teaching "cannot be seen as a legitimate expression of Christian liberty" and urged that clergy who violated official doctrines be removed from their positions. (See Roman Catholic Church, below.)
In November the Rev. Gordon L. Summers of the Moravian Church was sworn in as president of the NCC. Financial problems prompted several denominations, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and Southern Baptist Convention, to make more budget cutbacks. However, the WCC ended up in the black for the second year in a row, and three former U.S. presidents, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, agreed to serve as honorary cochairmen of a drive to raise $10 million for the faith and order work of the National and World Councils of Churches.
U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton drew criticism from his own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, which opposed his policies on abortion and homosexual rights and urged him to "affirm biblical morality in exercising his public office." Earlier Clinton had invited leaders from 15 denominations in the NCC to meet with him in the White House, signaling a greater openness to mainline denominations than had been the case in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Leaders of the NCC, the U.S. Catholic Conference, and the Synagogue Council of America met in Washington, D.C., in June and issued a 4,000-word statement seeking to initiate "a fresh debate over the renewal of the general welfare" in the United States. The statement said the welfare of the weakest members of society was "a crucial moral test" of the common good. (See Special Report.) Most religious leaders and associations applauded Clinton's signing on November 16 of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which reinstated significant restrictions on the government's ability to regulate religious practices.
In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of the Santeria religious group to sacrifice animals during worship services, saying that no religion or religious practice may be "singled out for discriminatory treatment" even if its activities were viewed as "abhorrent" by most people. In an Arizona case, the high court ruled 5-4 that government-funded sign language interpreters may be provided for deaf parochial school students because such aid benefits the child and not the school. A unanimous decision in a New York case said religious groups must be allowed to use public schools after hours if such access was accorded to other community groups.
Massachusetts' highest court overturned the 1990 manslaughter convictions of a Christian Science couple whose son died after they relied on spiritual rather than medical healing. The 6-1 ruling said David and Ginger Twitchell had "reasonably believed" they could rely solely on spiritual treatment without fear of prosecution. But a Minneapolis, Minn., jury returned a $5.2 million verdict against a woman who relied solely on spiritual healing while her 11-year-old son was dying from diabetes and against six other defendants, including a Christian Science congregation. The verdict was the first time that civil damages had been assessed against the church in connection with its teachings on spiritual healing.
In a widely discussed book titled The Culture of Disbelief, Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter said religion "often thumbs its nose at what the rest of the society believes is right" and that such dissent is necessary to preserve a healthy democracy. Carter said that "a religion is, at its heart, a way of denying the authority of the rest of the world."
Anglican Communion
One hundred top Anglican leaders met in Cape Town, South Africa, in January 1993 to wrestle with a daunting list of issues, including threats to the communion's unity posed by the 13 provinces that had ordained women. The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. George Carey, presided at the meetings, while the archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. Desmond M. Tutu, acted as host to this first-ever joint meeting between the communion's primates and the Anglican Consultative Council, which represented churches in 163 countries. The international gathering followed a November 1992 meeting of Southern Africa's Anglican bishops, who condemned South African political leaders over "growing and shocking tolerance of corruption, lies, and murder in political life." Criticizing both the South African government and the African National Congress, the bishops decried the "moral deterioration in South African society." Meanwhile, the sixth assembly of the All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) conferred the first AACC peace award upon two Mozambican churchmen, Anglican Bishop Dinis Sengulane of the Lebombo diocese and Roman Catholic Archbishop Jaime Gonçalves, in recognition of their contribution to the peace process in Mozambique.
The Church of England continued to grapple with the aftermath of its November 1992 decision to ordain women. Parliament approved the decision in November 1993. England's Roman Catholic bishops promised a "generous and understanding" welcome to Church of England members who could not accept the decision and chose to leave. Among the first to do so was Graham Leonard, the retired bishop of London, a longtime opponent of women's ordination. Carey told an ecumenical gathering in Belgium that "hopes for organic unity seem to have faded" between Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
U.S. Episcopalians were surprised by a membership gain for the second straight year, reversing a steady decline that began in 1966. In June the diocese of Vermont elected the Rev. Mary Adelia McLeod as its bishop, the first woman bishop to lead a U.S. diocese and only the second woman Anglican bishop worldwide. In November the Anglican Church of Canada elected Victoria Matthews of Toronto as its first woman bishop.
A conference in August on "Shaping Our Future: A Grassroots Forum on Episcopal Structures" attracted more than 1,000 participants from 96 dioceses. Participants ranging from traditionalists to liberal activists gathered in St. Louis, Mo., to discuss changes in the church's structure and organization in order to focus more effectively on its mission.
Baptist Churches
The largest black Baptist religious group in the nation and probably in the world, the National Baptist Convention, USA, met in New York City's Madison Square Garden, beginning Sept. 8, 1993, for its 113th annual gathering. First organized in 1880, the National Baptist Convention had more than 33,000 churches and was the third-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. Discussions at the New York convocation showed that the organization was moving away from its conservatism of a few years earlier--when the leadership opposed, for instance, the methods of Martin Luther King, Jr.--toward more progressive positions such as voicing opposition to the Gulf war. The organization was now focusing more attention on issues such as "economic empowerment" of blacks, ways congregations can deal with AIDS, and strategies for halting the waste of young black lives through crime, poverty, and lack of opportunity.
National Baptist Convention president Theodore J. Jemison was again the subject of controversy. Some members questioned the wisdom of building a $12 million headquarters in Nashville, Tenn.; the organization had $4 million of the debt still outstanding. In 1992 Jemison had been charged with perjury in the rape trial of boxer Mike Tyson.
Among white Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, an organization of moderates, reacted to the tensions and battles resulting from a fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and met to draw up and adopt a new constitution. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter endorsed and pledged financial support for the group, and he gave the keynote address at the meeting. Carter, a lifelong Southern Baptist and deacon in his home church in Plains, Ga., said he valued his Southern Baptist heritage but regretted the denomination's bitter internal politics during the past 14 years.
The Baptist World Alliance reported that the number of Baptists was growing in the Middle East, where Bible distribution was seen as a major evangelism tool. Continuing persecution of evangelicals was, however, still being reported in the region.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
The Rev. Richard L. Hamm, 45, a Nashville, Tenn., church official, was elected in July 1993 as the Christian Church's youngest-ever chief executive. He assumed a six-year term as general minister and president of the Indianapolis, Ind.-based denomination. His election was a highlight of the first Common Gathering of the Disciples General Assembly and the General Synod of the United Church of Christ in July. The mainline churches had enjoyed a unique "ecumenical partnership" since 1985.
The climax of the historic event in St. Louis, Mo., was an address, broadcast live across the United States, by the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond M. Tutu.
The assembly took note of the disastrous flooding in the U.S. Midwest and voted $30,407 to support local relief efforts. In all, the Disciples of Christ contributed more than $575,500 toward flood relief.
Earlier in the year, general minister and president C. William Nichols called for U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton to lift the ban on gays in the military, while the assembly came out in favour of civil rights for gays and lesbians, supported the establishment of a national health plan in the U.S., and called for peace and an end to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. In other church-wide activities, the Rev. Patricia Tucker Spier, a Tipton, Ind., pastor and former missionary to Japan, was elected president of the Division of Overseas Ministries.


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January 2002
Once upon a time I thought I wanted to be a bullfighter (and not the kind that wears sequined tights). A legendary cowboy named Leon Coffeeand an animal named Pretty Boychanged my mind.
Am I a real person? (Yes.) Who died and made me king? (My father, the emperor.) Have I seen your piggy bank? (Yes, a little while ago. He was running away from home.) Any other questions?
Director Wes Anderson's new movie, The Royal Tenenbaums, deals with death, despair, and other dark subjects. Andwhat do you knowit's hysterically funny.
From cornball classics to rousing rib-ticklers, these
two hundred Texas jokes are definitely on us.
A year of avaricious Aggies, banned boogers, chagrined cheerleaders, dotty dwellings, expletive-deleted Enron, famous fugitives, Germanic goofs, horny highways, icky insects, judicial jests, kooky kidnappers, look-alike logos, misguided Mavericks, news-making nuts, ousted Osamas, problematic pachyderms, quirky quarterbacks, rampaging rats, scary skunks, tetrahydrocannibinol-filled tacos, unhealthy urbanites, volleyball vamps, wayward W's, x-rated x-hibitionists, young yahoos, and zany Zeta-Jones.
We knew he could sing, of course. What we didn't know was that he had such a great sense of humor. Here are some of Willie Nelson's favorite jokes from his just-published memoir, The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes.
With a massive addition to its gallery space and a host of new exhibitions in the works, Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum is back in the saddle.
To change the way recording contracts are created, the Dixie Chicks are taking their act to the courtroom.
Why does Potter County have the state's highest mortality rate? Poverty is only one answer.
When I discovered that a Texas company makes the portable meals our soldiers carry into battle, I got my orders to eat up. I knew I would complete my missionor get indigestion trying.
Enron, rest in pieces.
Read all about it: Alpine residents win big during the town's newspaper war.
Suzy Banks pays hommage to a nerd, her dad.
Houston museum curator Anne Wilkes Tucker collects photographs and praise.
Austinite John Burnett reports from Pakistan's front line.
How Neiman met Marcus and other facts you never learned in seventh grade.

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Driven by Warfighter preferences, DoD Combat Feeding Directorate
improving and adding items to Meals, Ready-to-Eat.
NATICK, Mass., May 15, 2006 – Driven by warfighter preferences, DoD Combat Feeding Directorate keeps improving and adding items to Meals, Ready-to-Eat.
The nation's Warfighters can look forward to numerous new food items and improvements in the next version of Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs), which were recently approved and will go into production in 2008.
MREs were developed by the DoD Combat Feeding Directorate, part of the Natick Solider Center, in the early 1980s.
The directorate has since worked continuously to update the meals to provide optimum nutrition, improve taste, and to reflect the current preferences of servicemen and women.
Judy Aylward, senior food technologist
The meals meet the Office of the Surgeon General's nutritional requirements and are packaged to withstand airdrop, rough handling, and temperature extremes. Items included in the MRE must be shelf stable for three years at 80 degrees Fahrenheit and six months at 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
MREs are used to sustain individuals in all the Armed Forces during operations where meal preparation is not feasible. The meals include 24 different menus.
The new items and replacements are the result of extensive evaluations with the very people who will be eating the meals, the nation's warfighters.
Thirty-eight new items were evaluated by approximately 400 soldiers at Fort Greeley, Alaska, in September 2005.
According to Judy Aylward, a Combat Feeding Directorate senior food technologist and project officer for the Fielded Individual Ration Improvement Program, new items must receive a score of 6 or higher on a quality scale of 1 to 9 (with 1 being extremely disliked and 9 being extremely liked) to be included in the annual field evaluation.
Results from the field evaluations, combined with recommendations by Natick Soldier Center scientists, were presented for approval to the Joint Service Operational Rations Forum, which included representatives from all of the Armed Services, in February 2006.
Aylward has noticed changes in warfighter preferences over the years.
"We have seen a trend in the past several years that the warfighters tend to like ethnic foods, sandwich-type items, and eat-on-the-move snack items," said Aylward. "They also are more health conscious and read the food labels. All MRE items have the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food label, which includes nutritional information and ingredients."
Aylward said the following items were approved to be included in MREs:
Granola with blueberries or strawberries (just add water and you will have a bowl of granola with milk)
Instant vanilla or chocolate pudding
Toaster pastries, chocolate chip or French toast
Chipotle snack bread
Chocletto's candy (chocolate toffee candy)
Twizzler Nibs (small red licorice candy)
Chocolate-covered coffee beans
Patriotic cookies (sugar cookie with flags/Soldiers imprinted on surface)
Cheez-Its, hot and spicy
Irish Cream flavored coffee
Banana strawberry dairy shake
Salsa verde (condiment)
Butter Buds
Splenda packet (sugar substitute)
Some items from previous editions of the MRE will be replaced. Chicken pesto pasta will replace the chicken with cavetelli. Lasagna with vegetables, a vegetarian meal, will replace the vegetarian manicotti.
Combat Feeding Directorate also tries to include commercial-off-the-shelf products in MREs when possible.
"Name brand recognition provides a little bit of home to the warfighter, which especially helps to improve morale,"said Aylward.


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Chucky Mullins, the Mississippi football player who became an inspiration for his team and school after he was paralyzed in a game in 1989, died Monday at 21.
Mullins died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Miss., of complications from a blood clot in his lungs.
Mullins, who regained some movement in his upper body and returned to classes last Jan. 16, passed out last Wednesday at his home and stopped breathing.
"Physicians said the damage suffered Wednesday was extensive and unfortunately too much for Mr. Mullins to overcome," the hospital said in a statement.
Mississippi Coach Billy Brewer said, "This is a tremendous loss for all of us. Chucky was a very special human being. He fought long and as hard as humanly possible. He never gave up."


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Max, John McCain has since added to his comments with a very helpful suggestion. Stephen Hayes reports:
"If the president fires McChrystal, we need a new ambassador and we need an entire new team over there. But most importantly, we need the president to say what Secretary Clinton and Secretary Gates have both said but what the president refuses to say: Our withdrawal in the middle of 2011 will be conditions based. It's got to be conditions based and he's got to say it."
But McCain says that Obama is worried about the political repercussions of that kind of all-in statement.
"He won't say this because he's captive of his far-left base."
McChrystal may have shot himself in the foot, but he has pulled back the curtain on the Obama team's dysfunction, which is wreaking havoc on our war effort.
And if Obama doesn't take the sage advice to look at his own misguided time frame for a troop withdrawal and leaves in place the obviously inept and counterproductive team of civilian officials? Congress can't win a war, although lawmakers can exercise oversight and demand answers to basic questions — e.g., is the timeline hampering our chances for victory? But ultimately, it is up to the president. He will have to commit himself — or not — to victory. A defeat in war cannot be blamed on a predecessor. It is his responsibility, and it will be his legacy.
McCain's prediction is most likely accurate. Let's pray on this one that Obama defies expectations.


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A quiet Sunday morning in March 2005 turned abruptly terrifying for Dr. Steven Berk, who, writing in his study, suddenly found himself staring down the barrel of a shotgun, a desperate and irritated criminal nervously gripping the weapon and demanding cooperation.
Panic began to surge through his body and he pictured how gruesome gunshot wounds look in the emergency room, Berk wrote in his autobiography "Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story" that details his ordeal of March 6, 2005. The book is due out next month.
No doubt it would be easy to wind up dead in a situation like that, a strange man threatening death in your home unless he gets what he wants. But Berk, a former faculty member at East Tennessee State University's James H. Quillen College of Medicine, credits his training as a doctor with his and his family's survival that day in Texas. He was led from his home at gunpoint and forced to provide valuable family heirlooms and credit cards for his kidnapper in an unimaginably stressful ride through that state.
"Most people in that setting wind up doing what they have to do, so they bring all of their resources to their disposal," Berk said in a recent phone interview from Texas, where he is dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. "It's certainly easier for a physician."
Traits like remaining calm under extreme pressure, the ability to deal with myriad personalities and relating to people are just a few of the qualities many physicians possess, Berk said. Berk began learning these skills as a medical student at Boston University's School of Medicine in the 1970s and continued honing them at ETSU, where he came as a faculty member in 1979 to help establish Quillen. He left ETSU in 1999 for Texas Tech.
Berk's autobiography is centered around his kidnapping and how he made it through unhurt, but instead of just focusing on how that event affected him, he reveals how his entire life affected the kidnapping. While he has written several textbooks over the years, this is his first book for the public. Throughout "Anatomy of a Kidnapping" is insight into his life, from just before entering medical school and his friendship with two terminally ill boys to his internship in Arizona and his interaction with and appreciation of Native American culture to his time at Quillen and his experiences with AIDS patients in the 1980s and 1990s.
It took him five years to write the book.
"I don't think I would ever have tried to write an autobiography or a memoir if not for the kidnapping," Berk said. "It's an attempt to describe how your life can be affected, how a single event can be determined by the experiences of your whole life."
Another theme in "Anatomy of a Kidnapping" is learning from your mistakes, Berk said.
"That's actually an important theme in medicine right now," Berk said. "Learning from mistakes is important for everybody. One of the problems with my kidnapper is that he never learned from the mistakes he made and kept making them."
In fact, learning is a theme throughout the book, as well.
Take for instance Berk's attitude toward guns. He said it is certainly reasonable to see how people argue for gun control, especially if they have experienced the death of a loved one due to a gun. He knew nothing about guns before his kidnapping, so he thinks attitudes toward guns are likely based on life experiences.
"But if you're someone whose house has been invaded by someone with a gun and the only difference between you and him is that he has a gun, you start to think of things differently," Berk said.
He bought a gun shortly after his kidnapper let him go, because the man had threatened to return for blood if Berk talked to police. Berk is married with two children, one of whom was living at home at the time of his kidnapping. In fact, that son was home when the kidnapper was pointing a shotgun at Berk in his study. Berk managed to keep the situation calm, so his son left the house without becoming involved in the situation.
"I haven't taken it (the gun) out very much but I definitely know where it is," Berk said with a laugh.
Berk's story made news across the state in 2005, probably more than usual due to his position as medical dean. In fact, the Johnson City Press interviewed him shortly after the kidnapping.
"I spent 20 years there (in Johnson City) and still know a lot of people in the medical school," Berk said. "I haven't gone back to East Tennessee very much, but still have a lot of students, faculty and friends there.
"I developed as a teacher, a physician and an administrator (at ETSU). I was very proud of the progress we made then and I'm proud of the progress East Tennessee has continued to make."
Berk faced both support and criticism for his handling of his own kidnapping. Some argued he should have done more to escape, while others praised his success in surviving unscathed. The book details more of what Berk was thinking and how he thought the situation should be handled as he tried to oblige his kidnapper.
"Different people have different views on what you're supposed to do," Berk said. "There's no one plan or diagram on what you're supposed to do when you're kidnapped by an armed criminal."
He said his example was not meant to be absolute advice, because each situation is different.
"It may not be the model or best approach for those in the future," Berk said.
"Anatomy of a Kidnapping" should be available for purchase in September at many book retailers. For more information about the book and Berk, visit anatomyofakidnapping.com.


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President Obama had a brief discussion with President Putin at the D-Day celebration in France. And anyone who believes this was an "off-the'cuff" conversation hasn't a clue about how such things are done. The meeting was orchestrated and that it took place is significant. Since it appeared to have been cordial one could assme it was productive.
Candy King come President Poroshenko of Ukraine was also at the celebration, presumably to check on EU members' real positions on his country's delicate political dance. Poroshenko has staked out a middle road policy of not pursuing EU adhension at this time but standing tough on putting down opposition forces in Eastern Ukraine. Those forces are called Russian stooges by the West but Putin has not been able to control them, giving the lie to these Western shibboleths.
My bet is that this will work out with Ukraine giving more autonomy to regional administrations that will allow greater economic adhesion with Russia. Ukraine may yet be the glue that holds Europe together rather than the flash point for a greater conflict.


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Discussion in 'Players & Legends' started by PDG1978, Jun 14, 2009.
cant fukin believe how overrated zidane is by almost everybody
the product of lazy journalism i suspect ,this reeks of familiarity and anglocentrism. even the dm's own jeff powell wouldnt go with this and those perculiar placings.....its like tim vickery talking about the great players when he actually has never seen any of them play as he's barely in his 40's.take it with a pinch of salt the names are there just in the wrong places
3 of the 10 are there not on merit but on familiarity and arguably bias,take a look at similar lists from around the world s.america,europe and there different from this ,considerably so.the best lists of players are from writers who have actually seen all the players there talking about.
poor quality as previously mentioned
I'd say zidane is underrated a 5th. I'm going to be controversial and say he's first. Yes, the best playerof all time. I dont know how some people can have forgotten how good he was already. Even if you took the 3x World Player of the Year and ballon d'or awards, Champions League win, World Cup and European Championship wins away you'd still have one of the most gracefull and natural footballers ever.
If taken those away? Then that would leave Zidane with empty pocket and he would HARDLY to make his name in to legend list - NO ONE would remember Zidane - just like his early years 93-96 !
My vote:
1 Pele (50 pts)
2 Alfredo Di Stefano (49)
3 Johan Cruyff (48)
4 Diego Maradona(47)
5 Ferenc Puskas (46)
6 Garrincha (45)
7 Michel Platini (44)
8 Bobby Charlton (43)
9 George Best (42)
10 Franz Beckenbauer (41)
11 Zico (40)
12 Bobby Moore (39)
13 Lev Yashin (38)
14 Ronaldo (37)
15 Lionel Messi (36)
16 Eusebio (35)
17 Romario (34)
18 Franco Baresi (33)
19 Zinedine Zidane (32)
20 Marco Van Basten (31)
21 Kaka (30)
22 Kenny Dalglish (29)
23 Ronaldinho (28)
24 Gerd Muller (27)
25 Stanley Matthews (26)
26 Roberto Rivelino (25)
27 Lothar Matthaus (24)
28 Paolo Rossi (23)
29 Jurgen Klinsmann (22)
30 Roberto Baggio (21)
31 Johan Neeskens (20)
32 Peter Schmeichel (19)
33 Sandro Mazzola (18)
34 Paolo Maldini (17)
35 Mario Kempes (16)
36 Gheorghe Hagi (15)
37 Thierry Henry (14)
38 Ruud Gullit (13)
39 Cristiano Ronaldo (12)
40 Hristo Stoichkov (11)
41 Dennis Bergkamp (10)
42 Emilio Butragueno (9)
43 Zbigniew Boniek (8)
44 John Charles (7)
45 Gabriel Batistuta (6)
46 George Weah (5)
47 Michael Laudrup (4)
48 Enzo Francescoli (3)
49 Francisco Gento (2)
50 Andriy Shevchenko (1)
some other players deserving perhaps to be in this list:
Gianni Rivera
Omar Sivori
Nilton Santos
Gordon Banks
van Nistelrooy
Hugo Sanchez
Luis Figo
Thanks Couper, I'll update the overall points now:
Pelé – 349
[FONT="]Diego Maradona - 338
Johan Cruyff – 338[/FONT]
[FONT="]Alfredo Di Stéfano - 318
Franz Beckenbauer - 309
Michel Platini – 306[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ferenc Puskás – 300[/FONT]
[FONT="]George Best - 286[/FONT]
[FONT="]Zinedine Zidane - 277
Zico – 276[/FONT]
[FONT="]Garrincha - 274
Bobby Charlton - 266
Ronaldo - 257[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marco van Basten - 252
Eusébio - 252
Gerd Müller – 217[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lev Yashin – 212[/FONT]
[FONT="]Romário - 193
Bobby Moore - 184[/FONT]
[FONT="]Paolo Maldini - 173[/FONT]
[FONT="]Franco Baresi – 170[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lothar Matthäus - 144[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ronaldinho - 141[/FONT]
[FONT="]Stanley Matthews – 139
[/FONT][FONT="]Rivelino - 137[/FONT]
[FONT="]Roberto Baggio - 135[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ruud Gullit - 134[/FONT]
[FONT="]Thierry Henry - 118
Didí - 109
Leonidas – 85[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dennis Bergkamp – 81
[FONT="]Peter Schmeichel - 80[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Lionel Messi - 74[/FONT]
[FONT="]Giuseppe Meazza - 73[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kenny Dalglish – 71[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jürgen Klinsmann - 65
Michael Laudrup – 64[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kaká - 58[/FONT]
[FONT="]George Weah – 53[/FONT]
[FONT="]Johan Neeskens - 53[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sándor Kocsis - 52[/FONT]
[FONT="]Paolo Rossi - 52[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fritz Walter - 50
[/FONT][FONT="]Rivaldo - 47[/FONT][FONT="]
Gheorghe Hagi - 46[/FONT]
[FONT="]José Manuel Moreno – 44[/FONT]
[FONT="]Daniel Passarella – 44[/FONT]
[FONT="]Elías Figueroa - 44
John Charles - 43
[/FONT]Sandro Mazzola - 43
[FONT="]Matthias Sindelar – 40[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gianni Rivera - 40
Cristiano Ronaldo - 38
Roberto Carlos - 37
Hector Scarone – 36[/FONT]
[FONT="]Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - 36
Luís Figo - 35
Duncan Edwards - 35
Arsenio Erico – 33[/FONT]
[FONT="]Zizinho – 33[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mario Kempes - 33
[/FONT][FONT="]Raymond Kopa - 32
Gabriel Batistuta - 32
Dejan Savicevic - 31
Josef Bican - 30
Teófilo Cubillas – 30[/FONT]
[FONT="]José Leandro Andrade - 30
Andriy Shevchenko - 29
Luis Suárez - 27
Hristo Stoichkov - 27
Francisco Gento - 27
Juan Alberto Schiaffino - 26
Uwe Seeler - 24
Adolfo Pedernera – 24[/FONT]
[FONT="]Carlos Alberto - 24
Ladislao Kubala - 23
Valentino Mazzola - 23
Emilio Butragueño - 21[/FONT]
[FONT="]Cafú - 19
Imre Schlosser - 18
Hugo Sanchez - 18
Zbigniew Boniek - 17[/FONT]
[FONT="]Just Fontaine - 15
Omar Sivori – 15[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nándor Hidegkuti – 15[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nilton Santos -15
Ruud Krol - 14
Fernando Redondo - 14
Gunnar Nordahl - 12
Roy Keane – 12[/FONT]
[FONT="]Djalma Santos - 12
Javier Zanetti - 11
Enzo Francescoli - 11
Tostao - 8[/FONT]
[FONT="]József Bozsik - 5[/FONT][FONT="]
Giacinto Facchetti - 4
Dino Zoff - 3
Telmo Zarra – 2[/FONT]
[FONT="]Falcao - 2[/FONT][FONT="]
Artur Friedenreich - 1[/FONT]
Couper, I noticed you used the 50 players given by the Mail for your vote. Upon request I changed the thread to a free-for-all Top 50 vote using any players. I had already voted so just changed mine by inserting two players and mentioning other candidates in a seperate post. I kept the Mail's ranking as 1 vote too but everybody else has been voting based on any player to play the game. So I don't mind if you want to alter your vote to include some of those other players you mentioned in whichever positions you want. I can easily re-do the updated rankings if you want to. After you've decided I'll do a post to show all the players with an honourable mention from myself, Peru FC and you (unless you include all of those 23 players in your top 50) but without any points as yet.
For the names in bold, will be replaced by the likes: N.Santos, Rummenigge, Breitner, Gerson, Tostao, Leonidas, Sivori , Rivera Cubilas Zizinho
You forgot to bold Butragueno, Francescoli and Klinsmann.
ok, then here is my updated list:
1 Pele (50 pts)
2 Alfredo Di Stefano (49)
3 Johan Cruyff (48)
4 Diego Maradona(47)
5 Ferenc Puskas (46)
6 Garrincha (45)
7 Michel Platini (44)
8 Bobby Charlton (43)
9 George Best (42)
10 Franz Beckenbauer (41)
11 Zico (40)
12 Bobby Moore (39)
13 Lev Yashin (38)
14 Ronaldo (37)
15 Lionel Messi (36)
16 Eusebio (35)
17 Romario (34)
18 Franco Baresi (33)
19 Zinedine Zidane (32)
20 Marco Van Basten (31)
21 Didi (30)
22 Kenny Dalglish (29)
23 Ronaldinho (28)
24 Gerd Muller (27)
25 Stanley Matthews (26)
26 Roberto Rivelino (25)
27 Lothar Matthaus (24)
28 Zizinho (23)
29 Roberto Baggio(22)
30 Giacchinto Facchetti (21)
31 Johan Neeskens (20)
32 Gordon Banks (19)
33 Sandro Mazzola (18)
34 Paolo Maldini (17)
35 Fritz Walter (16)
36 Leonidas (15)
37 Gianni Rivera (14)
38 Ruud Gullit (13)
39 Raymond Kopa (12)
40 Hristo Stoichkov (11)
41 Ladislao Kubala (10)
42 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (9)
43 Omar Sivori (8)
44 Nilton Santos (7)
45 Gabriel Batistuta (6)
46 Hugo Sanchez (5)
47 Michael Laudrup (4)
48 Uwe Seeler (3)
49 Francisco Gento (2)
50 Socrates (1)
actually it is very hard to make the list, especially in the lower places. its just so many great players
Very true. I see you kept the top 20 the same but had a rethink on the other places. I'll adjust the current standings now.
Adjusting the current standings after Couper's re-vote (quoting my initial update and adjusting the points in there)
There are 102 players with votes now - it was a round 100 before Banks and Socrates were added just now. 37 of the current top 50 were in the original top 50.
Ok, I guess because of the limited number of players I'll probably be biased towards the creative and attacking players, but I'll try to include at least a few of the best defensive players as well. I won't include any goalies, though, as it's impossible to compare their value to field players in relative terms. Lets see...
Pele (50)
Diego Maradona (49)
Alfredo Di Stefano (48)
Franz Beckenbauer (47)
Johan Cruyff (46)
Garrincha (45)
Michel Platini (44)
Didi (43)
Eusebio (42)
Herd Muller (41)
Ferenc Puskas (40)
Jose Manuel Moreno (39)
Zizinho (38)
George Best (37)
Zico (36)
Marco Van Basten (35)
Lothar Matthaus (34)
Paolo Maldini (33)
Frank Rijkaard (32)
Romario (31)
Ladislao Kubala (30)
Daniel Passarella (29)
Franco Baressi (28)
Bobby Charlton (27)
Zinedine Zidane (26)
Ronaldo (25)
Sandor Kocsis (24)
Stanley Matthews (23)
Gianni Rivera (22)
Jairzinho (21)
Omar Sivori (20)
Dragan Dzajic (19)
Bobby Moore (18)
Roberto Rivelino (17)
Giuseppe Meazza (16)
Raymond Kopa (15)
Ruud Gullit (14)
Roberto Baggio (13)
Falcao (12)
Joszef Bozsik (11)
Leonidas (10)
Adolfo Pedernera (9)
Mattias Sindelar (8)
Karl Heinz Rummeinge (7)
Josef Bican (6)
Gabriel Batistuta (5)
Tostao (4)
Fritz Walter (3)
Luis Suarez (2)
Fernando Redondo (1)
Thanks for the vote ASF. I was just compiling the current honourable mentions and already it's outdated as Jairzinho and Dzajic now have votes! I'll adjust it tomorrow with the current points too. EDIT Rijkaard is another with points now, so off the honouable mentions list too.
Honourable mentions so far: (before ASF's vote)
Domingos Da Guia
Steven Gerrard
Frank Rijkaard
Lilian Thuram
Gianluigi Buffon
Pavel Nedved
Obdulio Varela
Marcel Desailly
Patrick Vieira
Sepp Maier
Denis Law
Alessando Del Piero
Francesco Totti
Alessandro Nesta
Edgar Davids
Josef Masopust
Eric Cantona
Ricardo Bochini
Oliver Kahn
Oleg Blokhin
Ryan Giggs
Tom Finney
Jimmy Greaves
Dragan Dzajic
Kazimierz Deyna
Rob Rensenbrink
John Robertson
Gaetano Scirea
Roger Milla
Preben Elkjaer
Jean Tigana
Jan Ceulemans
Glenn Hoddle
Pierre Littbarski
Gary Lineker
John Barnes
Enzo Scifo
Matthias Sammer
Claudio Caniggia
Paul Gascoigne
Gianfranco Zola
Davor Suker
Brian Laudrup
Henrik Larsson
Robert Pires
David Beckham
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Johnny Rep
Wolfgang Overath
Paul Breitner.
So another 53, included as at least top 100 candidates by a voter or 2.. or 3 (Ryan Giggs for example).
Updated standings:
Pelé – 399
[FONT="]Diego Maradona - 387[/FONT]
[FONT="]Johan Cruyff – 384[/FONT]
[FONT="]Alfredo Di Stéfano - 366[/FONT]
[FONT="]Franz Beckenbauer - 356[/FONT]
[FONT="]Michel Platini – 350[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ferenc Puskás – 340[/FONT]
[FONT="]George Best - 323[/FONT]
[FONT="]Garrincha - 319[/FONT]
[FONT="]Zico – 312[/FONT]
[FONT="]Zinedine Zidane - 303[/FONT]
[FONT="]Eusebio - 294[/FONT]
[FONT="]Bobby Charlton - 293[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marco v[/FONT][FONT="]an Basten - 287[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ronaldo - 282[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gerd Müller – 258[/FONT]
[FONT="]Romario - 224[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lev Yashin – 212[/FONT]
[FONT="]Paolo Maldini - 206[/FONT]
[FONT="]Bobby Moore - 202[/FONT]
[FONT="]Franco Baresi – 198[/FONT]
[FONT="]Didí - 182[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lothar Matthäus - 178[/FONT]
[FONT="]Stanley Matthews – 162[/FONT]
[FONT="]Rivelino - 154[/FONT]
[FONT="]Roberto Baggio - 149[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ruud Gullit - 148[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ronaldinho - 141[/FONT]
[FONT="]Leonidas – 110[/FONT]
[FONT="]Thierry Henry - 104[/FONT]
[FONT="]Zizinho - 94[/FONT]
[FONT="]Giuseppe Meazza - 89[/FONT]
[FONT="]José Manuel Moreno – 83[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gianni Rivera - 76[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sandor Kocsis - 76[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lionel Messi - 74[/FONT]
[FONT="]Daniel Passarella – 73[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kenny Dalglish – 71[/FONT]
[FONT="][FONT="]Dennis Bergkamp – 71[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT="]Fritz Walter - 69[/FONT]
[FONT="]Michael Laudrup – 64[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ladislao Kubala - 63[/FONT]
[FONT="]Peter Schmeichel - 61[/FONT]
[FONT="]Raymond Kopa - 59[/FONT]
[FONT="]Johan Neeskens - 53[/FONT]
[FONT="]Karl-Heinz Rummenigge - 52[/FONT]
[FONT="]George Weah – 48[/FONT]
[FONT="]Matthias Sindelar - 48[/FONT]
[FONT="]Rivaldo - 47[/FONT]
[FONT="]Elías Figueroa - 44[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jürgen Klinsmann - 44[/FONT]
Sandro Mazzola - 43
[FONT="]Omar Sivori - 43[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gabriel Batistuta - 37[/FONT]
[FONT="]Roberto Carlos - 37[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hector Scarone – 36[/FONT]
[FONT="]John Charles - 36[/FONT]
[FONT="]Josef Bican - 36[/FONT]
[FONT="]Luís Figo - 35[/FONT]
[FONT="]Duncan Edwards - 35[/FONT]
[FONT="]Arsenio Erico – 33[/FONT]
[FONT="]Adolfo Pedernera - 33[/FONT]
[FONT="]Frank Rijkaard - 32[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dejan Savicevic - 31[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gheorghe Hagi - 31[/FONT]
[FONT="]Teófilo Cubillas – 30[/FONT]
[FONT="]José Leandro Andrade - 30[/FONT]
[FONT="]Paolo Rossi - 29[/FONT]
[FONT="]Luis Suarez - 29[/FONT]
[FONT="]Andriy Shevchenko - 28[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kaká - 28[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hristo Stoichkov - 27[/FONT]
[FONT="]Francisco Gento - 27[/FONT]
[FONT="]Uwe Seeler - 27[/FONT]
[FONT="]Juan Alberto Schiaffino - 26[/FONT]
[FONT="]Cristiano Ronaldo - 26[/FONT]
[FONT="]Giacinto Facchetti - 25[/FONT]
[FONT="]Carlos Alberto - 24[/FONT]
[FONT="]Valentino Mazzola - 23[/FONT]
[FONT="]Hugo Sanchez - 23[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nilton Santos -22[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jairzinho - 21[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dragan Dzajic - 19[/FONT]
[FONT="]Cafú - 19[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gordon Banks - 19[/FONT]
[FONT="]Imre Schlosser - 18[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mario Kempes - 17[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jozsef Bozsik - 16[/FONT]
[FONT="]Just Fontaine - 15[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nándor Hidegkuti – 15[/FONT]
[FONT="]Fernando Redondo - 15[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ruud Krol - 14[/FONT]
[FONT="]Falcao - 14[/FONT]
[FONT="]Emilio Butragueño - 12[/FONT]
[FONT="]Gunnar Nordahl - 12[/FONT]
[FONT="]Roy Keane – 12[/FONT]
[FONT="]Djalma Santos - 12[/FONT]
[FONT="]Tostao - 12[/FONT]
[FONT="]Javier Zanetti - 11[/FONT]
[FONT="]Zbigniew Boniek - 9[/FONT]
[FONT="]Enzo Francescoli - 8[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dino Zoff - 3[/FONT]
[FONT="]Telmo Zarra – 2[/FONT]
[FONT="]Artur Friedenreich - 1[/FONT]
Socrates - 1
And the honourable mentions are now:
Domingos Da Guia
Steven Gerrard
Lilian Thuram
Gianluigi Buffon
Pavel Nedved
Obdulio Varela
Marcel Desailly
Patrick Vieira
Sepp Maier
Denis Law
Alessando Del Piero
Francesco Totti
Alessandro Nesta
Edgar Davids
Josef Masopust
Eric Cantona
Ricardo Bochini
Oliver Kahn
Oleg Blokhin
Ryan Giggs
Tom Finney
Jimmy Greaves
Kazimierz Deyna
Rob Rensenbrink
John Robertson
Gaetano Scirea
Roger Milla
Preben Elkjaer
Jean Tigana
Jan Ceulemans
Glenn Hoddle
Pierre Littbarski
Gary Lineker
John Barnes
Enzo Scifo
Matthias Sammer
Claudio Caniggia
Paul Gascoigne
Gianfranco Zola
Davor Suker
Brian Laudrup
Henrik Larsson
Robert Pires
David Beckham
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Johnny Rep
Wolfgang Overath
Paul Breitner
After 8 votes, including the Mail's and my own, based on a 4-4-2 formation the players highlighted below make it into the first, second, third and fourth select teams according to their points totals and their best position(s). I've not tried to pair a libero and marker in the teams but just put two centre-backs in. I have gone for a playmaker and a box to box midfielder in midfield and a support striker and centre-forward in attack. The top four in the standings can just fit in the same team I feel, as they'd be pretty much as good in the role they are in (Pele - support striker, Maradona - Playmaker, Cruyff - Left Wing, Di Stefano - Centre-forward) as any alternative role they could play. Pele and Di Stefano are both legendary goalscorers and conveniently Di Stefano is famous as a number 9 and Pele as a number 10, literally in terms of their shirt numbers. As Di Stefano has more points than any alternative centre-forward I think it's correct to do it this way. In reality Di Stefano and Pele would play as a partnership and share playmaking/goalscoring duties so I feel the criteria are still met (not like putting together Arshavin and Robinho, or van Nistelrooy and Vieri for example):
So in summary at this point:
Team 1
Yashin (Soviet Union)
J. Andrade (Uruguay) * deemed good enough at right-back, otherwise Zanetti in Team 4 with Carlos Alberto in Team 1 etc
Beckenbauer (Germany)
Moore (England)
Maldini (Italy)
Best (N.Ireland)
Charlton (England) * deemed ok choice as box to box player though attacking
Maradona (Argentina)
Cruyff (Holland)
Di Stefano (Argentina)
Pele (Brazil)
Team 2
Schmeichel (Denmark)
Carlos Alberto (Brazil)
Baresi (Italy)
Passarella (Argentina)
Roberto Carlos (Brazil)
Garrincha (Brazil)
Matthaus (Germany)
Platini (France)
Rivelino (Brazil)
Eusebio (Portugal)
Puskas (Hungary)
Team 3
Banks (England)
Cafu (Brazil)
Charles (Wales)
Figueroa (Chile)
Facchetti (Italy)
Matthews (England)
Neeskens (Holland)
Zidane (France)
Ronaldinho (Brazil) * deemed good enough at left wing otherwise Gento
van Basten (Holland)
Zico (Brazil)
Team 4
Zoff (Italy)
D. Santos (Brazil)
Rijkaard (Holland) * maybe better in midfield?
Krol (Holland)
N. Santos (Brazil)
Gullit (Holland) * deemed good enough at right wing, otherwise Figo as Rummenigge no more of a right-winger than Gullit I feel
Edwards (England)
Didi (Brazil)
M. Laudrup (Denmark) * deemed good enough at left wing otherwise Dzajic, if Gento in team 3
Ronaldo (Brazil)
R. Baggio (Italy).
My Top 100
01. Pelé (Brazil)
02. Diego Maradona (Argentina)
03. Johan Cruijff (Holland)
04. Alfredo Di Stéfano (Argentina)
05. Ferenc Puskás (Hungary)
06. Franz Beckenbauer (Germany)
07. Michel Platini (France)
08. Eusébio (Portugal)
09. George Best (Northern Ireland)
10. Zico (Brazil)
11. Zinedine Zidane (France)
12. Garrincha (Brazil)
13. Ronaldo (Brazil)
14. Bobby Charlton (England)
15. Lev Yashin (Soviet Union)
16. Leonidas (Brazil)
17. Franco Baresi (Italy)
18. Romário (Brazil)
19. Paolo Maldini (Italy)
20. Lothar Matthäus (Germany)
21. Marco van Basten (Holland)
22. Gerd Müller (Germany)
23. José Manuel Moreno (Argentina)
24. Giuseppe Meazza (Italy)
25. Didí (Brazil)
26. Roberto Carlos (Brazil)
27. Roberto Baggio (Italy)
28. Bobby Moore (England)
29. Raymond Kopa (France)
30. Ruud Gullit (Holland)
31. Rivelino (Brazil)
32. Cafú (Brazil)
33. Stanley Matthews (England)
34. Dino Zoff (Italy)
35. Teófilo Cubillas (Peru)
36. Fritz Walter (Germany)
37. Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Uruguay)
38. Gordon Banks (England)
39. Matthias Sindelar (Austria)
40. Giacinto Facchetti (Italy)
41. José Manuel Moreno (Argentina)
42. Uwe Seeler (Germany)
43. Gianni Rivera (Italy)
42. Luis Suárez (Spain)
44. Sándor Kocsis (Hungary)
45. Ladislao Kubala (Czechoslovakia)
47. Michael Laudrup (Denmark)
48. Alessandro Mazzola (Italy)
49. Francisco Gento (Spain)
50. Just Fontaine (France)
Very difficult to make a top 50 since its hard to compare a goalkeeper with a d defender,a defender with a forward and so on...
I didn't selected current players ; Kaka,Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi you will not find on my list.
I've included R9 since his international carreer is over.
the players that just didnt make the top 50 ;
Josef Masopust (Czechoslovakia)
Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina)
Carlos Alberto (Brazil)
Daniel Passarella (Argentina)
Zizinho (Brazil)
Djalma Santos (Brazil)
Frank Rijkaard (Holland)
Tostao (Brazil)
Gunnar Nordahl (Sweden)
Luis Figo (Portugal)
Hugo Sanchez (Mexico)
George Weah (Liberia)
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Germany)
Sepp Maier (Germany)
EXCUSES ; my top 50 got messed up with bad numbering here is the corrected list from place 40 to 50.
40. Giacinto Facchetti (Italy)
41. José Manuel Moreno (Argentina)
42. Uwe Seeler (Germany)
43. Gianni Rivera (Italy)
44. Luis Suárez (Spain)
45. Sándor Kocsis (Hungary)
46. Ladislao Kubala (Czechoslovakia)
47. Michael Laudrup (Denmark)
48. Alessandro Mazzola (Italy)
49. Francisco Gento (Spain)
50. Just Fontaine (France)
Good list as well braine, but you're repeating José Manuel Moreno as 23th and 41th position mate.
Thanks for the vote Braine. Do you want to clear up whether you had a different player in mind for 23rd or 41st, or whether you'd put Moreno in 23rd then changed your mind and want to add another player to the bottom of your list from the ones you listed as being close? Then I'll post the current standings etc.
I haven't studied it in detail but I wonder if Peru and Braine, you have the most similar votes actually? I know both the recent Brazilian full-backs/wing-backs are in both your lists as well as Cubillas. I suppose in terms of personnel my vote was close to the Mail's but as already stated there would be a few minor differences towards the bottom end of my ranking if I hadn't used their ranking as the guide. Only Figo and Savicevic were going to be towards the top so I just put them in.
There are obviously quite a few historical players voted for now that weren't in the original list.... a lot of votes for Zizinho, Leonidas and Moreno in particular. Interesting as I've seen a few lists/books etc not including them but perhaps including Ademir Marques de Menezes, Piola, Sarosi etc.
Actually, I was revising my list from some months ago and I noted I should improve it, especially after everything I read of some rankings and my investigation to the Sheep Draft:
01. PELÉ (Brazil)
02. MARADONA, Diego (Argentina)
03. CRUYFF, Johan (Netherlands)
04. DI STÉFANO, Alfredo (Argentina)
05. BECKENBAUER, Franz (Germany)
06. PLATINI, Michel (France)
07. PUSKÁS, Ferenc (Hungary)
08. ZICO (Brazil)
09. GARRINCHA (Brazil)
10. ZIDANE, Zinedine (France)
11. RONALDO (Brazil)
12. BEST, George (Northern Ireland)
13. MÜLLER, Gerd (Germany)
14. BARESI, Franco (Italy)
15. EUSÉBIO (Portugal)
16. DIDÍ (Brazil)
17. CHARLTON, Bobby (England)
18. YASHIN, Lev (Soviet Union)
19. MALDINI, Paolo (Italy)
20. MOORE, Bobby (England)
21. ZOFF, Dino (Italy)
22. ZIZINHO (Brazil)
23. ROMÁRIO (Brazil)
24. MATTHEWS, Stanley (England)
25. MORENO, José Manuel (Argentina)
26. VAN BASTEN, Marco (Netherlands)
27. BAGGIO, Roberto (Italy)
28. KUBALA, László (Hungary)
29. RIVELINO, Roberto (Brazil)
30. MEAZZA, Giuseppe (Italy)
31. WALTER, Fritz (Germany)
32. LEONIDAS (Brazil)
33. PEDERNERA, Adolfo (Argentina)
34. MATTHÄUS, Lothar (Germany)
35. GULLIT, Ruud (Netherlands)
36. SINDELAR, Matthias (Austria)
37. KOPA, Raymond (France)
38. HENRY, Thierry (France)
39. RIVALDO (Brazil)
40. RIVERA, Gianni (Italy)
41. SCIREA, Gaetano (Italy)
42. ROBERTO CARLOS (Brazil)
43. ANDRADE, José Leandro (Uruguay)
44. SCHIAFFINO, Juan Alberto (Uruguay)
45. NILTON SANTOS (Brazil)
46. RUMMENIGGE, Karl-Heinz (Germany)
47. GÉRSON (Brazil)
48. SUÁREZ, Luis (Spain)
49. RIJKAARD, Frank (Netherlands)
50. RONALDINHO (Brazil)
51. CUBILLAS, Teófilo (Peru)
52. FACCHETTI, Giacinto (Italy)
53. LAUDRUP, Michael (Denmark)
54. KOCSIS, Sándor (Hungary)
55. CARLOS ALBERTO (Brazil)
56. PASSARELLA, Daniel (Argentina)
57. THURAM, Lilian (France)
58. FALCAO (Brazil)
59. FIGUEROA, Elías (Chile)
60. SEELER, Uwe (Germany)
61. DJALMA SANTOS (Brazil)
62. KEEGAN, Kevin (England)
63. SÍVORI, Omar (Argentina)
64. DZAJIC, Dragan (Yugoslavia)
65. SCARONE, Héctor (Uruguay)
66. GENTO, Francisco (Spain)
67. BUFFON, Gianluigi (Italy)
68. SÁNCHEZ, Hugo (Mexico)
69. MAZZOLA, Sandro (Italy)
70. DA GUIA, Domingos (Brazil)
71. FIGO, Luís (Portugal)
72. BICAN, Josef (Czechoslovakia)
73. CAFÚ (Brazil)
74. JAIRZINHO (Brazil)
75. ADEMIR Marques (Brazil)
76. DESAILLY, Marcel (France)
77. TOSTAO (Brazil)
78. LABRUNA, Ángel (Argentina)
79. MAIER, Sepp (Germany)
80. DALGLISH, Kenny (Scotland)
81. NORDAHL, Gunnar (Sweden)
82. BANKS, Gordon (England)
83. ZANETTI, Javier (Argentina)
84. BATISTUTA, Gabriel (Argentina)
85. MAZZOLA, Valentino (Italy)
86. ERICO, Arsenio (Paraguay)
87. WEAH, George (Liberia)
88. FONTAINE, Just (France)
89. KAHN, Oliver (Germany)
90. MAKÉLÉLÉ, Claude (France)
91. MONTI, Luis (Argentina)
92. TOTTI, Francesco (Italy)
93. VIEIRA, Patrick (France)
94. PEYROTEO, Fernando (Portugal)
95. SPENCER, Alberto (Ecuador)
96. CUETO, César (Peru)
97. SÁROSI, György (Hungary)
98. GREAVES, Jimmy (England)
99. ZAMORA, Ricardo (Spain)
100. LAW, Denis (Scotland)
Once again my Top 50 ( until I've learned how to post it!)
01. Pelé (Brazil)
02. Diego Maradona (Argentina)
03. Johan Cruijff (Holland)
04. Alfredo Di Stéfano (Argentina)
05. Franz Beckenbauer (Germany)
06. Ferenc Puskás (Hungary)
07. Michel Platini (France)
08. Eusébio (Portugal)
09. Zinedine Zidane (France)
10. George Best (Northern Ireland)
11. Bobby Charlton (England)
12. Zico (Brazil)
13. Garrincha (Brazil)
14. Ronaldo (Brazil)
15. Lev Yashin (Soviet Union)
16. Leonidas (Brazil)
17. Franco Baresi (Italy)
18. Romário (Brazil)
19. Paolo Maldini (Italy)
20. Lothar Matthäus (Germany)
21. Marco van Basten (Holland)
22. Gerd Müller (Germany)
23. György Sarosi (Hungary)
24. Giuseppe Meazza (Italy)
25. Didí (Brazil)
26. Roberto Carlos (Brazil)
27. Roberto Baggio (Italy)
28. Bobby Moore (England)
29. Raymond Kopa (France)
30. Ruud Gullit (Holland)
31. Rivelino (Brazil)
32. Cafú (Brazil)
33. Stanley Matthews (England)
34. Dino Zoff (Italy)
35. Teófilo Cubillas (Peru)
36. Fritz Walter (Germany)
37. Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Uruguay)
38. Gordon Banks (England)
39. Matthias Sindelar (Austria)
40. Giacinto Facchetti (Italy)
41. José Manuel Moreno (Argentina)
42. Uwe Seeler (Germany)
43. Gianni Rivera (Italy)
44. Luis Suárez (Spain)
45. Sándor Kocsis (Hungary)
46. Ladislao Kubala (Czechoslovakia)
47. Michael Laudrup (Denmark)
48. Alessandro Mazzola (Italy)
49. Francisco Gento (Spain)
50. Just Fontaine (France)
to be honest I've took the Peru top 100 and copy/paste the players in the position I think they belong to.
Only Gordon Banks was not listed in his previous top100.
but something got wrong with the copy/paste of position #23.
Its hard to make a top50 IMO,its more easy to make a top 10 by position for example...
OK Braine, I'll update shortly. Yeah I guess a top 50 or top 100 is a pretty uncertain task to complete. I think in a way it's easier to group players than to put them in individual positions. I understand too why you'd find it easier to pick top 10 by position (I guess you can compare your choices to Comme's greatest X of all-time lists).
Peru, I'll study your original list and update the points to account for the differences as well.
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WWE Battleground Review
Welcome to my review of the inaugural Battleground PPV which emanated from Buffalo, New York. On this evening Randy Orton will battle Daniel Bryan for the vacant WWE Championship. Before we could find out whom the new Champion would be Dolph Ziggler takes on Damien Sandow in the Kickoff Match.
Just in case anyone cares tonight's expert panel is Josh Mathews, The Miz, Titus O'Neil and Tensai.
Damien Sandow makes his way to the ring and on his way there he tells us he is going to decimate Dolph Ziggler and if things go the way he thinks they are then this won't be the last time we see him tonight. A bit of foreshadowing perhaps?
Battleground Kickoff Match- Dolph Ziggler pinned Damien Sandow (**3/4)
Nice little match to start off tonight's action. There was a nice near fall in the match when Sandow went for his neckbreaker finisher and Dolph reversed it into the Fameasser for a long two count. It amazes me how the crowd reacts to that spot considering Dolph has never beaten anyone with it to my knowledge.
Sandow took of his knee pad to create more damage when he dropped his knee on Dolph. It seemed to backfire as he tweaked that knee which led to Ziggler hitting the Zig Zag for the win after about ten minutes. In a match featuring two guys that never win, one had to. I'm surprised at just how much dirt they keep shoveling on Sandow.
WWE Battleground
After the opening video package and pyro we are ready to kick off the PPV in a big way. The World Heavyweight Championship Match gets things started.
Battleground Hardcore Rules Match for the World Heavyweight Championship- Alberto Del Rio beat Rob Van Dam via Submission to retain the Championship (***1/4)
This was a nice choice for the opener. It was a good match that got the crowd into the evening's events. It never turned the corner to be truly memorable since it took a while to set the spots up and the action never really flowed.
The weapon of choice was a ladder but early on RVD almost won the title when he slingshot himself into the ring and DDT'd ADR onto a steel chair. As the match progressed, Del Rio was able to lock RVD in the Cross Arm Breaker. Before RVD could tap, Ricardo Rodriguez attacked Del Rio with his bucket. Del Rio took some punishment but ADR would eventually take him out with a kick on the floor. As ADR was attempting to get back in the ring, RVD baseball slid the ladder into Del Rio. The ladder fell on top of the Champion and then RVD hit the Five Star Frog Splash off the apron onto Del Rio and the ladder. Awesome spot.
The action made its way back to the ring and RVD attempted the Van Terminator but he missed crashing and burning. ADR set up a chair and dropped Van Dam on it trapping his arm on it. Del Rio stomped the chair a few times before locking in the Cross Arm Breaker. RVD was left with no choice but to tap and Alberto Del Rio retained the title at the 15 minute mark.
We cut to the back where Zeb Colter is with The Real Americans. Apparently he has moved on from making racial stereotypes about Mexicans to making racial stereotypes about Canadians. We the People then thought it might be a good idea to deep fry The Great Khali and Santino Marella.
The Real Americans defeated The Great Khali and Santino Marella (*1/4)
I normally don't get excited about Khali matches being added to PPVs I'm watching. I was when this one was added early Sunday afternoon. Only because I wanted to see Antonio Cesaro do the Swing to Khali. He did and it was awesome. The crowd gets so jacked up to see it too. It's one of the best spots in WWE today. After the swing, Cesaro pinned Khali to pick up the win for his team. As for the rest of the match, there's a reason I skipped right to the end.
WWE Intercontinental Championship Match- Curtis Axel pinned R-Truth to retain the Championship (*1/4)
This was a match that could have been done on RAW tomorrow night. I don't think anyone thought Truth was going to win and because of that the crowd was dead for the match. The majority of this eight minute match was dominated by Axel. Truth had a brief flurry of offense but Axel caught him in his finisher where he slams his opponent's head into the match for the win. That move really needs a name.
WWE Divas Championship Match- AJ Lee beat Brie Bella to retain the Championship (*1/2)
Pretty solid for a Divas Match. Brie has worked hard to make her competent in the ring and AJ's always been a solid performer. There was a nasty bump early in the match. Brie was on the apron and AJ kicked out her leg and then whipped her into the post. Brie's whole body hit the post pretty hard.
AJ was able to ground #BrieMode by working on her arm but Bryan's Bella made a comeback and looked like she was about to win the title after a running knee. Brie noticed AJ's enforcer Tamina Snuka choking out her sister. Brie went to check on Nikki and this allowed AJ to roll up Brie for the win after seven minutes.
The beautiful Renee Young is with the Rhodes Family. Each man takes his turn talking and hyping the match that is coming up next. The highlight of this whole thing was when Cody mentioned that they weren't the perfect family and Goldust did that bark chomp thing he does over Renee's shoulder. Classic.
Cody Rhodes and Goldust defeated Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns (***1/4)
It was nice to see the Buffalo crowd wake up for this match. We hadn't heard a peep out of them since the World Heavyweight Championship Match. Fun, drama filled tag team match. It was slow at time which hurt the overall rating but still very worthy of the PPV time they were given.
Cody and Goldust were a house of fire early on. Cody hit a beautiful moonsault and Goldust decided to follow suit but he didn't have it in him so he turned it into a very nice crossbody block.
The Shield stemmed the early onslaught from the Rhodes and took control of the match after Goldust missed a running body block and took a spill to the floor. Roman Reign's power is phenomenal. Every time that man is on my TV screen I'm further convinced that he'll main event WrestleMania one day.
The match broke down and Dusty Rhodes and Dean Ambrose had a standoff on the outside. Dusty cracked Ambrose in the face with his belt buckle and then blasted him with the Bionic Elbow. Reigns went after Dusty but Goldust took him out leaving it to Seth Rollins and Cody in the ring.
Rollins tried to capitalize on Cody paying attention to the action on the outside by rolling Cody up. Cody kicked out at two and then hit a huge Cross Rhodes for the win after 13 minutes. The Rhodes are now employed by WWE once again.
After the match, the locker room came out to congratulate The Rhodes family.
We head to the back where RAW General Manager Brad Maddox is on the phone with The Authority. It is then we learn that Triple H and Stephanie are not at the PPV. Vickie Guerrero walks in and Maddox says he needs her help because The Authority has put him in charge of the PPV. She says that it's all on him, cackles and leaves.
Bray Wyatt beat Kofi Kingston (*1/4)
This match really didn't click until the end but by that point the match already went on too long. The crowd was dead silent for this match and it made the match even harder to watch.
Kofi went for the Trouble in Paradise but missed and then Bray nailed that vicious crossbody he does. He went in the corner and hung upside down like he does before Sister Abigail but when he came out of the corner he did some weird crab walk which freaked Kofi out. Kofi bailed to the outside and the match went on some more. Kofi went for the SOS and Bray countered it into Sister Abigail for the win.
After the match, Harper and Rowan attacked Kofi and then Bray told us to Follow the Buzzards.
CM Punk pinned Ryback (**1/4)
Maybe it is my fault for expecting more from this match but it just didn't do it for me. It wasn't bad, just very average. It's like a RAW match that you know the guys were saving something for the PPV. The problem here was that this was the PPV.
The match started slow and picked up when Punk, to use an MMA term, was in Ryback's guard and then started blasting Ryback with forearms and elbows. Paul Heyman saw his man was in trouble and got on the mic to declare himself the Best in the World. This allowed Ryback to get back in the match with the Meathook and then he got a two count after a Powerbomb.
The match went back and forth with each man trading big moves from there on out. Ryback was clobbering Punk on the apron. Heyman was going to crack Punk with a kendo stick but the referee saw what he was going to do. The referee began to admonish Heyman and while he did that Punk nailed Ryback with a low blow. That was enough for the win after 15 minutes. What a weak ending to the match. Ryback was booked poorly in a big match again but why should I be surprised at this point?
WWE Championship Match- Randy Orton and Daniel Bryan ended in a Double Knockout (***1/4)
I figured the match would end in some kind of a non-finish to set up a blow off match at Hell in a Cell but this was just ridiculous. The match was just kind of going along which is fine because you knew it was all about the ending. The D-Bry hit a huge Flying Crossbody off the top rope to the floor. The match picked up from there. Bryan hit a Flying Headbutt and then five running dropkicks in the corner.
Bryan was about to finish off Orton with the big head kick and Orton caught him in a nice T-Bone suplex. WWE was using a slow-mo replay during this match where you could see just how much impact these guys' bodies take on these moves.
The match went back and forth until Bryan locked in the Yes Lock. Orton looked to be in trouble when The Big Show's music hit. He pulled the referee out of the ring and the KO'd Bryan. Show had that conflicted look on his face. We then see Brad Maddox on the ramp as he send fired referee Scott Armstrong into the ring. Armstrong begins to count Bryan down and just as it appears that we have a new WWE Champion, Show pulls Armstrong out of the ring and knocks him out. Show goes in the ring and Orton begins to yell at him and then he gets knocked out.
Both Bryan and Orton were left knocked out on the mat as Show's music hit and the PPV ended with The Big Show, not either man in the WWE Championship Match standing tall in the ring.
The Diagnosis
This was easily the worst PPV of the year for WWE. The crowd was dead for the majority of the night and there wasn't one blow away, show stealing match. Three matches were just above three stars but we get matches like that on RAW all the time. We expect more from PPV matches.
My major gripe and what really cemented this as the worst PPV of the year was the main event. Specifically the ending. You're asking your fans to spend $44.95 or more to see a new WWE Champion crowned and then you don't crown one. What makes it so egregious was that The Big Show came off as the star of the match and not either one of the combatants in the match. I wasn't expecting a new champ tonight but they could have ended the show in a mass brawl. The way it ended made The Big Show overshadow what is supposed to be the most coveted prize in the company. I didn't care for that.
This PPV was the wrestling equivalent of watching my Giants start the season 0-5. Battleground gets a 4/10.
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Published on March 23, 2012
Olu Onafowora, professor of economics at Susquehanna University, will discuss "The Role of Leadership in Africa's Economic Growth and Development" as the recipient of the university's John C. Horn Distinguished Service Award. The free public lecture will take place April 4 at 4:30 p.m. in Isaacs Auditorium, in the university's Seibert Hall.
The lecture will focus on how leadership failure has affected economic growth in Africa. "African countries are caught in unstable leadership traps because of the inability to harness leadership capital with socio-cultural capital," Onafowora said. "Leadership capital is subject to diminishing returns after two terms of tenure in office, while socio-cultural capital does not diminish because of society's knowledge base, skills, and technical and educational qualifications."
As an economist, Onafowora has conducted research on monetary policies, government spending, taxation, and tourist trade in international contexts, particularly in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. He teaches micro- and macroeconomics as well as labor economics. In addition to his teaching and scholarly activities, Onafowora has served as a policy and economics consultant to the Food Policy Institute and the Center for Urban Policy Research, both at Rutgers University.
Onafowora earned his Ph.D. from West Virginia University and joined the Susquehanna University faculty in 1989.
The John C. Horn Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the university's board of directors to honor the late John C. Horn, who served as board chair from 1962 to 1978, and to recognize outstanding faculty scholarship and service. The award is determined by open nominations from the faculty.
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Steve Hochstadt: I don't understand why people who paid a commercial airline for a first-class ticket get their own line through official TSA security. Does TSA get more from them? Or are they better people, deserving of better treatment, by everyone, private or public, like other privileges of access that the rich get
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We learned yesterday from patent trial evidence that Samsung was worried about running ads that directly attacked Apple, wanting Google to do it for them. We now know that it was the death of Steve Jobs which prompted Samsung's change of mind, running the Next Big Thing ads which directly mocked Apple customers.
An email trail shows that Samsung America's VP of U.S. sales Mike Pennington cynically described the death of Jobs as "the best opportunity" to run the campaign, as consumers might be worried about Apple's future product innovations following the death of its famous co-founder.
Sorry to continue to push this issue, but I have seen this far too long and I know this is our best opportunity to attack iPhone …
Chief marketing officer Todd Pendleton replied, giving the go-ahead:
Hey Michael, We are going to execute what you are recommending in our holiday [Galaxy S2] campaign and go head to head with iPhone 4S.
The Wall Street Journal posted the complete trail as a PDF.
It was earlier revealed that Apple's senior VP of marketing Phil Schiller was so concerned about these ads that he emailed Tim Cook to suggest a change of ad agency to fight back. That didn't happen, though Apple is currently planning to expand its line-up of digital agencies.
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It's regrettable that Apple does fight back Samsung with ethics. Samsung is just a crooked company which never play on ethics and moral values. I would have developed few more suppliers and gotten rid of them completely. No one on earth gives Samsung so much money in advance for what they make and sell.
Best move Samsung ever made. It was a GREAT campaign and a HUGE turning point for Samsung.
They need another turning point right now, maybe you can move to pyongyang and help them with that.
And for the record, I still see NOTHING in the article that specifically states Jobs' death was the reason for kicking off the campaign.
There's no where in that email thread where they're talking about Jobs' death as an opportunity. They're just saying they needed to aggressively market their newest device so that people could notice the advantages offered by Samsung/Android and the timing thing was because of the launching of iPhone 4S's not Steve's death. The Steve Job's death comment was brought because of the fact that media were talking a lot about Jobs and Apple products because of his decease at the time and that would affect the launching of the back then Samsung newest device so they thought they needed to be "aggressive" against Apple on their promotional campaign. Nothing wrong with their approach.
Heh, learn to read between the lines. Of course the VP from Samsung will not specifically say lets jump on Apple since Jobs died but it is obvious what his meaning intended.
I did read the emails and what they said was that because of Steve's death everybody were talking about him and his incredible products exactly while iPhone 4S and their Galaxy were about to launch so they needed to be more aggressive against Apple if they wanted potential customers to turn their eyes to them. As with any singer who passes away and the newest CD sells better than ever before that was about to happen to Apple and they needed to be relevant. It wasn't a low moral move. If Apple was getting "promotion" for free because of Jobs' death then lets focus on a more aggressive campaign.
You can't expect anything better from a company that has really no values of its own and looks to beat its competitor in anyway possible. Being said, Samsung has been still unable to do it. None of its products had any unique selling point than " Same Popular Features of iPhone, Now on Android"
Finding the Death of Steve Jobs as a 'Good Opportunity' is truly sad. I am sure Samsung thought of this as a 'Good Opportunity' because if Steve was alive and they would have tried the 'Next Big Thing Campaign', Steve would have beat the pulp out of them and I mean literally :)
Samsung America's VP of U.S. sales Mike Pennington is an asshole that history will not remember!
damn,That's pretty ruthless. "Hey, Jobs is dead. Let's turn the heat on the stuff we stole. No one over there has the gonads to stop us."
They were rightfully a little bit frightened of the tough genius of Jobs; not so much with Cook. Reminds me of Russia's attitude towards the USA under Ronald Reagan's leadership versus Barack Obama's leadership. Putin and his friends openly mock the latter.
They were also only a few moments away from nuclear war because of one wrong move back when Reagan was in office. Context is king.
Apple People are like Progressive/Liberal/Democrats. They know for certain that they are laying over a barrel with a hand in their pockets and 15 inches up there private hole. Still they defend the hand and the 15 inches of pain. Steve Jobs would have done exactly the same thing except He would have said so, bragged about it and all the AppleFanBoys would have cheered his genius.
Leave it out Grandpa!
This whole article is misleading. Samsung didn't say that Steve Jobs' death was a great time to attack Apple. The emails clearly said that Steve Jobs' death led to all this free press that perpetuated the "Apple has superior products" meme, and Samsung needed to speak up against it because Google wasn't pulling its weight.
Then you look to the ads themselves, which I found were hilarious and spot-on in mocking the Apple fanboy base. The ads did not make light of Steve Jobs' passing in any way. In case someone questions my allegiances, I use an old flip phone.
Yeah probably this one…
You should admit Reality. Despite this vantage tactic may seem dirty, it is not dirtier than all the practices both Samsung and Apple have been applying to their manufacturers, and far beyond the neo-slavery we citizens of the Northern countries have created by buying these products.
Personally, I do not see a reason to feel offended by a private and honest mail, as I did not saw any reason when Richard Stallman said Job's death removed one of the big threads free software had. Don confuse honesty with evilness, the state of reality with our moral judgements over it.
Samsung and Apple play in the same league, and if you accept neoliberalism you have to deal with all it at once. This behaviour is not my cup of tea either, but not a reason to raise it as a big issue; after all, Apple adds treat their customers as emotional, childish, irrational, trendy-addict hipsters, and no one is yelling at them precisely because their audience prizes that kind of imbecile approach —while I consider it diminishes them as human beings, because it uses evolution triggers to bypass rational evaluations in the benefit of impulsiveness consumption. (From the creators of the 72 hours a week, the Jail we had to Break in a product we paid for, and so on.)
Is this the 'verse' you were expecting?
Great seeing all the apple fan boys turn out in strength with mock outrage and pious hauter… Funny that they forgot the Justin Long apple commercials mocking Microsoft that they thought were oh so cute when they came out…. Thanks for the laughs boys.