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It was Thanksgiving Day 2005, and Dave Hoye was miserable. Why? Because the Broncos had just rallied to beat the Dallas Cowboys in overtime, virtually sealing a trip to the playoffs.
"It was a bitter loss for those of us who rooted against the Broncos," Hoye said. "Then, after the game, they kept talking about all these charitable things the players were doing. It was like John Lynch was at every food kitchen in the city. I couldn't take it anymore! I had to get up and leave the room."
Hoye has been a Broncos hater for almost 40 years. During that time, he has spent Sunday afternoons pulling for two teams: the Kansas City Chiefs, and whatever team is playing the Broncos.
There's just one problem. Hoye, an Iowa native, has lived in Denver since the early '90s. No, make that two problems. There's also the matter of the Chiefs having fallen off the NFL map, with six wins in their past 32 games.
And so it was that Hoye recently sent an e-mail to The Post entitled: "Chiefs fan living in Denver needs an intervention."
Hoye was so desperate, so frustrated, so alienated from his friends and family on Sundays, he asked if the newspaper could arrange for him to be hypnotized so he could accept the dreaded Donkeys into his heart.
"It's like growing up," said Hoye. "A midlife crisis, whatever way you want to say it. I'm going to be out here for the long haul, so I figured I might as well get with the party.
"After 16 years of being on the outside looking in, it's no fun."
Enter Lee Rindner. Talk about a match made in mental-health heaven. Who better for Hoye to turn to than Rindner, the godfather of local hypnotherapists who 23 years earlier had moved to Denver from Milwaukee and converted to Broncos Nation after a lifetime of pulling for the Green Bay Packers?
A Chiefs fan wanting to become a Broncos fan? Yep, that's what the voice on the other end of the line was saying. After the laughter subsided, Rindner agreed to take the case.
"I know where he's coming from," Rindner said. "It was Packers, Packers, Packers when I was growing up. When I moved out here, people looked at me like I was crazy. I was like, 'What's Elway?' I didn't know any of the history or any of that stuff. But I love people. I want to connect with people, laugh with people, hang out with people. There were no Packers games to go to, so the Broncos grew on me."
Would the Broncos grow on Hoye? The moment of truth came Wednesday when he arrived at Rindner's Littleton office, just as many famous athletes, actors and politicians have during the past two decades. After posing for a "before" picture in Chiefs garb, Hoye began walking toward Rindner's office for a confidential 90-minute session.
"The time has come," he said.
His last words before taking the leap of faith?
"Darn that Stenerud in '72."
Actually, it was Christmas Day 1971 when future Hall of Famer Jan Stenerud missed two potential game-winning field goals, enabling the Miami Dolphins to beat the Chiefs 27-24 in a double-overtime playoff game that still ranks as the longest game in NFL history.
An hour and a half later, the two emerged from Rindner's office. And . . . and . . .
"I hated the Broncos because they always punked the Chiefs," said Hoye. "Now I feel like I have coping mechanisms to get past that part of it. I'm disassociating the bitterness I've had against them all these years and throwing it out the window. I'm starting with a clean slate. Maybe I can grow into the Broncomaniac I should be after being here 16 years."
"That's my goal over time," he said. "You have to remember I came in guns blazing when I moved here. I have friends from Denver who want to take me to Kansas City in the next few years to see the Chiefs play the Broncos. I'm not sure what I'm going to wear. That's the big question. Check my Facebook status in a month."
Rindner is sworn to confidentiality in these matters, so he couldn't talk specifics. But it was readily apparent that Hoye, if not a new man, was a new fan.
"There are two ways to motivate a person: toward pleasure and away from pain," said Rindner. "I do my best to gather both pieces of information. If you motivate away from pain and toward pleasure, you let them know that, hey, you get to enjoy friends and family and go to games and smell the grass and have fun."
Hoye said he's ready to do all of the above. Sure, it's going to take time to lose all his Broncos baggage, but he's ready for the task — witness the John Elway jersey he wore post-session. Having seen the light, even if it was more of a glimmer than a bright flash, he isn't sure how he's going to feel when the Broncos and Chiefs play Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.
"I'm hoping I don't curse a blue streak if the Broncos win, like I usually do. Now the question is, if the Broncos win, what will my emotion be? Joy? Indifference? I'd say it's probably indifference right now, which would have been sorrow a month ago . . . or a few hours ago."
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ONE OF THE MOST APPALLING things about the religious right these days is how its leaders constantly portray themselves as victims.
When courts block fundamentalist Christians from forcing their religion into public schools and government institutions, religious right leaders cry discrimination and say they're being victimized.
When the scientific community rejects the religious right's pseudo-scientific ideas about human origins, theocrats complain of unfair treatment and hint darkly of conspiracies, again playing the victim card.
It's ironic because in reality religious fundamentalists, like other religious believers, enjoy an incredible amount of religious freedom. Americans are free to start houses of worship and other religious entities as they see fit. Generally speaking, these institutions are very loosely regulated, if at all.
Under Internal Revenue Service regulations, for example, houses of worship are granted tax-exempt status by mere dint of their existence. They don't have to fill out any paperwork or apply for anything.
Private religious schools must meet basic fire and safety codes--but not much else. They can hire and fire staff by whatever criteria they choose. They can teach creationism in lieu of science. Their teachers don't have to be certified.
Even zoning, which used to be perceived as the quintessential local issue, has been co-opted by a federal law designed to make it easier for churches to build wherever they like.
And it's so hard to argue seriously that religion or religious people are discriminated against in the United States. Yet religious right leaders keep trying. Lately they've been playing the victimization card on Capitol Hill.
The leadership of Focus on the Family recently sent a letter to Congress asking representatives to vote against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). This long-sought legislation would end many forms of employment discrimination against gays and lesbians.
According to Focus, this bill would somehow turn conservative Christians into victims of discrimination. The Focus letter contains examples of "Christian" business that would allegedly be adversely affected by it.
"Gay rights activists have wanted this bill for a long time," said Ashley Home, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, "to keep religious employers from being able to hire and fire based on their moral convictions."
In twenty-nine states it's legal to fire a person for no other reason than his or her sexual preference. Many people view that as rank discrimination, akin to firing someone on the basis of his or her ethnic background or national origin.
EDNA would go a long way toward stopping this type of discrimination aimed at gays and lesbians. Just as workers can no longer be fired simply for being black or Jewish, under EDNA they couldn't he dismissed solely on the basis of sexual orientation. At the very least, EDNA would give gays and lesbians a legal avenue to challenge such dismissals.
Yet according to Focus, this bill--designed to expand rights--is instead one that restricts them. It supposedly takes away the rights of "religious employers" to hire and fire on "moral" grounds.
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African Minerals, the biggest producer of the steelmaking ingredient in Sierra Leone, said it had agreed to sell 17 per cent of its Tonkolili mine to Chinese commodities importer Tewoo.
The deal boosts financing at the miner, which had shelved a US$2.5 billion expansion after missing sales forecasts.
For China, the world's biggest steelmaker, it increases access to iron ore to feed growth in construction and cars.
"This transaction will provide African Minerals with additional funds at the corporate level, significantly strengthening our balance sheet, and will provide flexibility in financing options for the company's future development," chairman Frank Timis said.
Tianjin Materials' offer values Tonkolili at US$6 billion. The deal, approved by the boards of both companies, will be accompanied by a 20-year offtake agreement for 10 million tonnes of ore.
African Minerals began exporting ore from Tonkolili in 2011 and has since been dogged by operational setbacks. The London-based company cut its sales forecast for this year from Sierra Leone to a range of 11 million to 13 million tonnes from as much as 15 million tonnes, having also reduced output targets a year ago.
Former chief executive Keith Calder and chief financial officer Miguel Perry resigned last month and 40 per cent of its London head-office staff were fired, cutting costs by US$15 million a year.
The firm deferred a planned expansion of mine, port and rail facilities at Sierra Leone's Pepel project after talks with Chinese partner Shandong Iron & Steel, which invested US$1.5 billion in African Minerals last year.
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Off the Wall's 'Gigi' retains its charm
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In the first of a 2-part exclusive interview, DC Comics' John Rood and Bob Wayne discuss the publisher's relaunch initiative, the future of Vertigo, "Flashpoint's" importance to the New 52 and much more.
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All this week, Ron Marz goes behind the scenes of his upcoming DC relaunch title "Voodoo." Today he looks at line art from Sami Basri and explores the notion of acting in art.
Batman meets Superman for the first time as Jim Lee and DC Comics release a double-page spread by the artist from "Justice League" #2.
With the DC's New 52 upon us, Augie looks at the list of new series starting in the next month to see which ones he's looking forward to, and how that list has changed since their first announcement.
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Judd Winick spent some time with CBR TV to discuss his role in the DC Comics relaunch, from the specific and unique challenges in writing "Batwing" to maintaining Catwoman's criminal roots and more.
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It was interesting to go through the first week and try to make changes that my family wouldn't mind also. I made the One-Dish Dinner: Southwestern Chicken and Rice for my children (12 & 17) and myself and was nervous that I was going to have to make them something else. It turns out that everyone loved it. They even talked about trying different salsa (something spicier) the next time I make it. I think that was a big break-through for me; there are healthy recipes that the entire family will eat. I don't have to do this alone.
And the Insider Tip on Day 5, "Keep Your Eye on the Prize" spoke to me. "Being a good example for by kids matters to me. My daughter tells me she wants to run with me when she gets older (she is just under four) and that makes me feel like a million bucks." Marissa, 90 pounds lost. I found my kids watching and trying things with me. I wasn't too excited about trying spinach in my eggs but I did and found I liked it. My daughter asked if she could try it for breakfast too. So I repeated the breakfast and doubled it for us. I have seen both of them grabbing fruit for a snack and my son drinking water instead of soda. All of these small steps mean so much to me. I am finding the more I do for myself the more I am helping my family. Even if I don't lose as much weight as I want (which I am not giving up on), I know that I am seeing results in my kids' habits. And that is worth everything. And that is what the program is all about, making small steps.
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The Cold Heart of James Salter
We no longer require compassion from the literature we admire. We admire writers who celebrate irony, disdain, contempt.
The icy heart is not new for Salter. His earlier novel, A Sport and a Pastime, is also marked by emotional detachment, and the title story of his last collection, Last Night, is remarkable for its inhumanity. A woman dying of cancer spends a final evening with her husband and a friend. They spend a last, elegiac dinner together, drinking a splendid wine. At bedtime the husband and wife retire upstairs where he injects her with a lethal dose of morphine. Then the husband retires downstairs to spend the night with his girlfriend—the close friend who came to dinner. They have great sex. But the morphine doesn't work, and to everyone's dismay, the wife survives. Sadly, the wife's discovery of the erotic liaison between the other two is the cause of their breakup, though the husband does his best to sustain it.
Bowman feels entitled to his vindictiveness: He has no scruples and feels no remorse, and nothing in Salter's prose suggests he should feel otherwise. There is no conflict within this human heart, and herein lies the book's great flaw. Salter presents Bowman as a kind of prince, a man we're intended to admire. He's a man of sensitivity and refinement, who loves good books, good shirts, good wine and women, though his love for women is almost entirely sexual, and his deepest engagement with them occurs in bed. He is at moments candid about his inability to empathize, but Salter presents this not as a flaw so much as the natural entitlement of man. When Bowman's wife refuses him in bed, "He knew he should try to understand but felt only anger. It was unloving of him, he knew, but he could not help it."
Katie Roiphe, writing in Slate, characterizes the book as a brilliant indictment of love—but love is an abstract emotion, you can't indict it. In fact what Salter does is reveal his own incapacity for that huge and engulfing passion. As Roiphe says, he writes "as if he is watching life down here from a very distant planet. … There's a disturbing anonymity to Bowman's attachments. … Salter seems to be saying that these unique, individual ardent attachments could just as easily be with another woman encountered on a different day." Bowman is an emotional isolate and a narcissist: Musing on the end of an affair, he thinks sentimentally of himself: "They had done things together that would make her look back one day and see that he was the one who truly mattered." Cold and withholding, Bowman's character denies the deepest and most fundamental aspects of compassion. A protagonist whose view is narrow and fixed means an absence of struggle and complexity; as an authorial vision, Salter's is limiting and constrictive.
Bowman's actions reveal that he's not the noble prince. He's Iago, ruthless, mean, and vengeful. Shakespeare knew, of course, that you can't make Iago the main character—he isn't large enough. He has only one point of view: his own. A villain—a character without morals or compassion—doesn't offer enough substance or complexity for a great protagonist, just as its opposite does not—a Pollyanna, someone without capacity for hatred, rage, or envy.
Certainly there are loathsome creatures in celebrated works of fiction—Humbert Humbert is a prime example. But I'd argue that Lolita fails to reach greatness for this very reason—there is no conflict within this human heart. Humbert's icy coldness, his monumental disdain for every character he meets, turns him into a parody of a human being, and the book itself is a parody of a romance. Its brilliant writing and shocking content have mesmerized and titillated readers, but the book won't endure beside King Lear. Lacking compassion, interior conflict, and consequences, Nabokov's vision devalues human experience, instead of celebrating it.
Why do we read great fiction? For many reasons, and one of them is the beauty of the prose. For that we read Salter: His grave and sonorous descriptions, of landscape, of weather and of sex, are almost unmatched. But another reason we read it is to expand our understanding of the human heart, and for that we need someone who offers an expansive vision, someone who understands the human heart in all its spaciousness and reach. Salter doesn't seem to be such a writer; he doesn't seem to understand the vastness and the heat of the deep interior spaces. He moves only through the cold outer chambers, and, though beautifully observed, this is bleak territory, and what is written there is only half the truth.


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Pilgrimage to Home of Dutch Puritans
Hagman, Harvey, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
Many of the Pilgrims began their journey to the New World not from England but from the Netherlands. Their first ship was the 60-ton Speedwell, not the more seaworthy Mayflower.
Oddly, their day of thanksgiving in Massachusetts in 1621 was derived in part from an Oct. 3 celebration marking the lifting of the Spanish siege of the Dutch city of Leiden in 1574.
The Indians, turkey and mashed potatoes of our national celebration came later.
I begin my pilgrimage in Delfshaven, the quiet, old seamen's quarter on the edge of Rotterdam, which escaped the World War II saturation bombing of the city and is one of the few surviving old sections of it.
In Delfshaven, I can walk in the faint footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers, tread on shiny cobblestones worn by the centuries, follow narrow streets lined with step-gabled red brick houses and meander along canals where single-masted ships and long barges still tie up.
Delfshaven is one of three major pilgrim sites in the Netherlands; the other two are Amsterdam and Leiden.
The religious separatists we know as the Puritans - the Pilgrims - set sail from Delfshaven on July 21, 1620. Their leaky schooner, the Speedwell, was tied up in the canal fronting the Pilgrim Fathers Church, which today houses Pilgrim memorials. Stained-glass windows and a video recall the Pilgrims' voyage, although the Pilgrims never held a service here. The church was a Dutch Reformed one to which the Pilgrim Fathers did not conform.
William Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth Colony, wrote that the Pilgrims' last day was spent in prayers with many tears shed as close friends parted and the last night was spent "with little sleep by most, but with friendly entertainment and Christian discourse."
They left for good reason. The Puritans were growing older and were slowly being assimilated into Dutch life, and they feared that "the great licentiousness of youth of that country, and the manifold temptations of the place" would corrupt their children.
After their leader prayed for safe passage to the New World, the group boarded the Speedwell. The anchor was lifted, cannons boomed and a line of harquebuses - early portable guns that rested on a hooked staff during firing - sent off a volley. The vessel sailed down the river Maas, heading for Southampton, where the group joined fellow believers from London and other English towns and transferred to the more seaworthy Mayflower.
The 40 Pilgrims of the Speedwell left behind a community of several hundred members in Leiden, where they had settled after fleeing from persecution by King James I of England, who disagreed with their doctrine of separation of church and state. "I shall make them conform themselves or I shall harry them out of the land or worse [hang them]," said the king.
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