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resiliency
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005McLaren quotes a fictionalized Jamaican grandmother as saying: If you find you-self on one mountain peak and you wanna get to anodda one, den dey is only one way up, and dat is to go down fust. (ANKOC, p. 80) If it’s not already a proverb, it should be.
I’m proud of him
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005I ran into Kevin Cedeno this afternoon. He’s still flying high after receiving an acceptance letter from John Jay College last week, and his work with the Youth Justice Board has him interviewing Department of Education bigwigs (on the schedule, Chancellor Joel Klein and possibly Mayor Bloomberg) and criminal justice experts. Three years ago, Kevin [...]
Tiger envy
Monday, March 7th, 2005After a 26-week hiatus, Tiger Woods is back on top (of his game and the PGA rankings). Yesterday he overcame a two stroke deficit on the tournament’s final day, beating arguably the hottest player on the tour and establishing a course record along the way. And he did it in vintage Tiger style, with an [...]
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
What do The Game, hip hop’s latest sensation, and Martha Stewart, America’s incarcerated domestic diva, have in common? Bankability. Based on a comeback. The Game’s debut album, the “most anticipated album of the year,” hit stores at number one on the charts. MTV attributes his success to “the unconditional street love he’s been given by [...]
Was it Legit?
Monday, January 10th, 2005So I make this New Year’s Resolution about finding allies in unexpected places. Sounds nice. Makes for a fun post to write. Little did I know that less than a week later I’d be forced to practice what I preach in a meaningful way at a critical time. You may recall, our flagship Xcel After [...]
This is Old News, But I Blame Kruse
Monday, January 10th, 2005Had I had a blog in October, I would have written then about the little known man most singularly responsible for reversing the Curse of the Bambino and lifting the Red Sox out of their 86-year misery: Matthew Kruse. With the Sox down 0-3 in the ALCS to the Yankees, Matt preached “The Red Sox [...]
Tossin
Monday, January 10th, 2005It’s after midnight and I can’t sleep, even though I have an early morning meeting in midtown tomorrow followed by a really long day. I’m trying to make sense of it all — not a smart thing to do in bed, especially when “it” includes everything that it includes. I can think, process, evaluate, assess, [...]
Happy New Year?
Friday, January 7th, 2005What a first week for 2005. It started well, with Monday’s court hearing postponed to January 18. (More on that in a future post). But the intensity ratcheted up quickly. It’s now Friday and I feel like I’ve been dodging organizational bullets all week. But we’ve made it through, by God’s unwavering grace! Here’s to [...]
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