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The Coup Jo Lee’s ExclusiveInterview »Concealed: The Cool Side of Bonanno

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3. MARVELOUS MAVERICK »So what’s new in today’s world

of high-speed change? Change!!

5. THE PROVOCATIVE &CHALLENGING WORLD OF ARCERI »Oscar appropriated by Fidel Castro?

Locked in his office drawer? How

did Oscar end up in Cuba?

7. THE COUP – EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW »In a rare interview – JO LEE talks to the

Mafioso’s Bill Bonanno and gets him

to share the flip-side to the coin, his

interpretation of Tradition, and being

wild about his grandchildren.

13. STETHOSCOPE 911 »If something is 24/7 – it’s stress!

Everywhere! Overlooked, is the

biochemical response. Huge amounts

of adrenaline, steroids designed to

drive, fight or flight.

14. THE ADESTE PRIZE »

15. (TRAVEL) Yes, Virginia! Come – Explore with me! »Did you rehearse your lines and pack

your bag full of dreams? You’re in

Hollywood!

17. FEATURES »» The Powerful Douglas A.S. Mills,

Chairman, The Glencreggan Limited with

MARKET CRASH! THE SEQUEL – coming

sometime to a market near you.

21. » The Academy Awards and

Tinsel town are abuzz with activity and

Canada’s Dr. Frank Beninger is swamped

with last minute nips, sucks, tucks and

enough Botox to fill several Hollywood

directors’ pools.

23. » Marriage Counselor Lois Gordon

and one’s lifelong commitment to:

THE FLAVORS OF A FAMILY.

25. » Winner of The McKinsey Award

Gerald G. Fisch tackles ‘the common

Fairytale’ v. Audit, Consulting and Honesty.

27. » Digital divide... social chasm of

the information age. James L. Koch, PhD

on Rome’s first Glocal Forum. The need

to ‘connect’.

30. (SPORTS) Half Time! »Prime Time or Crime Time. I predict

sports teams will soon release any

athlete who breaks the law.

31. THRU THE EYES OF JO LEECELEBRATING BEAUTY »The art of the brilliant hunch. Mrs.

Guilford (Jane) Dudley, wife of former

U.S. Ambassador to Denmark – taking

risks to stimulate the senses.

33. POLITICALLY RED »Harrison Ford – take a pay cut!

35. THIN’K’ERS CORNER »Parties and no $; the blues and dragging;

bullying? ‘Act’. It will work. This is too

important and so are you!

36. CRAZzY ABOUT R&D »The Beauty of Easter –

From culture to culture

Adolescence and Pregnancy –

Overwhelming! Get Help at the CamPUS

Dr. Rose A. Dyson –

Will Hollywood change its ways?

38. PROS & EX.CONS »Gerald F. Uelmen is the highly profiled

California defense counsel. He argues:

State v. Federal Authority Medical use

of Marijuana. The legal struggle.

40. WEIRD AND WACKY FACTS ON THE FILM INDUSTRY »The first TV broadcast of the Oscars

took place in 19__? What country has the

largest film output? During World War II,

Oscar winners were given statues made of?

42. MESSAGE FROM R&D EDITOR AT LARGE »Oscar mania? The glamour of its history!

On the Cover »Jo Lee with George

Burns, only months

before he died.

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» I often ask this question of friends to whom I haven’tspoken in a while. And I’malways quite surprised whensomeone replies, “Not too much.”In today’s world of high-speedchange, they’ve got to be kiddingme, right?

Well, guess what! The answer to “So what’s new?” It’s THE JO LEESPECIAL and I’m thrilled to bepart of it!

I’ve really enjoyed receiving yourquestions over the past year, andwant to thank all who sent in greatreading. I responded to as many as possible and hope my input has helped many a career.

The new MARVELOUSMAVERICK Column will discussworkplace topics in greater depthinstead of giving short answers toseveral questions,. Believe me,you’ll find this even more valuablein career development. As before, Iwelcome your mail which will guideme to write about what’s importantto you, our JO LEE reader.

What better topic for this columnthen – than ‘Change’.

Let’s start with one fact: We can’tstop change. We may not always like it, and we may wish thingswould stay the same for a while, butthey’re not going to. The truth is:everything around us is changingfaster than ever before, and thespeed of change is going tocontinue too.

Change is a law of nature. Daychanges to night, the weatherchanges, seasons change, thingsgrow, things get older, and thingsdie. The world is a constant… change.Add people, relationships, families,business, politics, technology andeverything else we bring to the table– and the changes that affect us are compounded!

What is it about change that weresist? Mostly this: like othercreatures of nature, we are alsocreatures of habit. Habit is ‘safeand secure’. When things happenthe same way over and over again,there are no surprises and we’recomfortable. When everything is

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topsy-turvy and nothing’s the samefrom one minute to the next, we’reinsecure and we feel threatened.

For many, today’s speed of changereally is threatening. But, unlessyou know of some desert islandwhere you can live in splendidisolation, no one should live theirlife in fear, trying to ‘stop theclock’, trying to ‘hide fromchange’. It’s simply impossible!

What does this mean for ourcareers? One thing: resistingchange will sweep you away! It’sgoing to happen, in every job, inevery company, in every industry.Businesses must continuously adaptfor survival. Unavoidably, we toomust adapt.

The harsh reality? No one wants tobe seen as a ‘has-been’, ‘yesterdaypeople’ or a ‘career dinosaur’.Here’s the irony: the very jobsecurity which people seek to clingto by resisting change, becomesmassive job insecurity because their companies don’t wantchange-resisters around any more!

The essence? Make yourself knownas someone who welcomes change,who quickly adapts to it and whobecomes even more effective inyour job with every change thathappens. Here are some of the ways that you can achieve this:

1. Change ‘how you doyour job’ – look for new,

better, more effectiveways of getting the resultsyou are paid for.

2. Challenge ‘what you doin your job’ – don’t allowothers to tie you down tothe same tired solutionsapplied over and over in the past; you want anend product that is rightfor the new conditions of the future, not theenvironment of the past.

3. Celebrate ‘changesthat work’ – let everybodyknow and share in thesuccess of changes thatwork, so that more andmore people around youlose their fear of change.

4. Anticipate ‘the next change’– the more you can determinehow things happeninginside and outside yourcompany are likely toaffect your job, the betteryou will be ready for thenext change.

5. Live ‘for tomorrow,not yesterday’– employerstoday care less whatyou’ve done for them inthe past than what youcan do in the future, sobe forward-looking.And remember: there’s no-one butyou responsible for your success! «Until next time, The Maverick

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The truth is: everything around us is changingfaster than ever before, and the speed of changeis going to continue too.

» Lust, envy, jealousy, greed,gluttony, avarice, sloth – the 7deadly sins? No! Welcome to TheAcademy Awards. Every tinsel towntootsie, male and female, yearns totake home a short, naked, bald (helost his top hat in design) 74 yearold male worth about 20 bucks.The hymn to this god that night:I’d gladly surrender myself to youbody and soul. On the podium,Oscar and his cloned siblings staresilently out at the audience… wholook back longingly with vain artisticfantasy conjuring a make it mine wish.

The honeymoon begins when the winner gets his hands aroundOscar’s throat. Then after theposing and partying Oscar gets in alimo and goes home to Bel Air, tobed with the star. His gold platedface having been kissed to a tarnish.

A Faustian pact to get Oscar raisesprofound questions whether cinemaart can exist in a financial or politicalvacuum which the industry hasbecome. Past glories at the firstacademy awards began on May 16,1929, presented during a banquetat the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.It was dignified, private, elegant,honest and honored and untelevised.It was announced on the radio. Inthe newspapers next morning. Ithad class. Things changed radicallyin the sixties – the ceremony gotbigger and bawdier but not better.The stars lost their luster becominggenerically common.

As the stakes climbed higher,suspicion and doubt arrived. Will Oscar be friend or foe? Is he smiling or sneering? Will he beenshrined or dishonored? On thebig night, a fated few would findout, before televised worldwideviewers worshiping at the temple of cheapened illusion. A globalculture, completely obsessed withthe movies: cinema, flicks, bringingin millions to films at the boxoffice, that vulgarize and degradeAmerica’s most valuable exportedindustry, giving a vile idiomatic

indentation of the American dream.The quality of a paradise lost!

I have interviewed over one thousandand one, plus, famed personalities.One question to those that havethem is: where do you keep yourOscar? In one case I was left withan unsolved mystery. Back stage, in his dressing room I asked thatquestion of Oscar winner JoseFerrer, who had won for his role as Cyrano de Bergerac. His nose in that picture outdistanced hischarisma. I preferred Pinocchio.

However, he told me his Oscar wasappropriated by Fidel Castro, lockedin his office drawer. Ferrer wasknown to be a communist so onMarch 29, 1951 in New York along with Judy Holiday, (who wonunfairly) Ferrer’s acceptance speechincluded his defense saying that:‘getting that trophy was a vote ofconfidence’. Yet he was given anOscar facsimile. Why? And howdid Oscar end up in Cuba? Didsomeone just take it and fly fromNew York to Havana with Ferrer’sbest wishes to solidify his friendshipwith communist dictator Castro…why didn’t he get it back? Did

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THE PROVOCATIVE & CHALLENGING WORLD OF ARCERI »By Gene Arceri New York – San Francisco

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The Academy replace it with anoriginal? Questions I never had a chance to ask as the room filledwith after-the-show sycophants.

Castro who loved American movies,then, must have drooled over itrecalling his Hollywood experiencesas a teenager. Tall, dark, goodlooking and beardless – he got into movies, somehow. Band leaderXavier Cugat, who was featured in South American musicals, saysFidel appeared in a lot of his.Ambitious, Castro had aspirationsto become an actor rising up fromhis chorus boy beginnings. AtMGM in ‘Holiday in Mexico’; ‘YouWere Never Lovelier’; ‘The HeatsOn’; ‘Bathing Beauty’ etc, as an

extra in crowd scenes – he made a few dollars a day. At night he didmuch better especially with the tipsas a hotel ballroom dancing (?)partner, to ladies seeking an escort.

If Barbara Walters had only calledme via JO LEE before she went toCuba to interview Castro, I wouldhave asked her to ask him whathappened to that Best Actor Awardtaken 51 years ago. Does anyoneknow? Do you? «To Write Gene Arceri » Click Here «

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» The second after I saw the epic miniseries “Bonanno – AGodfather’s Story”… I knew thatthe Executive Producer behind thishad created one of the most brilliantperformances and I–had to meet him!

Inspired by a generation of‘BONANNOISM’ – Bill Bonannohas an essence that much of theworld would find incomprehensible.But what IF we opened our eyes to

see – the other side! A dichotomyof extremes would present a mosaicso extraordinary – that the mind, if only for historic reasons, ‘wouldwant to’ understand.

People admire him, they obey him,and in the past – were very, veryscared of him. He’s been the targetfor assassination, for coup d’étatswhere food had to be tested, radiatedprior to consuming, where

remaining in one place more than2 – 3 hours was made very difficultso as to conceal his whereabouts.Several businesses were run by him,many lifestyles were dictated by him,while governments, corporationsinfused uninterrupted energy –trying to overthrow each of the ‘5’Families and their addiction topower. Loyalty and fear made itvery difficult to challenge him.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW » By Jo Lee

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Joseph and Bill Bonanno

Is it a wonder then – that ‘spellbound’and the mob – the Cosa Nostra,have become synonymous in mostparts of the world. But wait!NOTHING is this simplistic.

JO LEE: Bill, I’ve read, researched,interviewed many on ‘the mind behindthe man’ and I’m mesmerized,sitting with you. Might you beginby setting the stage, and explain to the world: “A Man Of Honor”and “Bonannoism”.

BILL: Jo Lee, the honor is mine.This unedited interview of theplight and sacrifices that my familyhave undergone is ‘so foreign’ tomost people. And this is somethingI’ve wanted to share, for years. With JO LEE Magazine – I share.

A MAN OF HONOR: E l’ombrad’un sogno fuggente: la favola breveefinita; il solo immortale e l’amore.(Life is the shadow of a passingdream; the story is short and finite;the only immortal truth is love.)

What is life? As my father has said,“it is what I have learnt. I was borninto a Tradition. I was born amonga people whom experience hadtaught to cherish certain fixedvalues. This Tradition was theflower of our culture. It taught us right from wrong. It guidedyoungsters as they strove towardmanhood. It guided mature men, andpunished them if they deserved it.Our Tradition gave us a way of life.

That my Tradition represents abygone era does not fill me with

regret or bitterness. My overallmood is one of thanksgiving.

I have learned that true powercomes from self-control.I have learned that true strengthcomes from a clear conscience.I have learned true wealth comesfrom a good family and goodfriends.”

And then we have: BONANNOISM.

Jo Lee – the root of the kingdom isin the state; the root of the state isin the family; the root of the familyis in the person at its head. Please,bear with me for a moment. It tellsthe story and becomes clear.

A man is not old until regrets takethe place of dreams.Friendships, connections, familyties, trust, loyalty, obedience – is the glue that holds us together.Tradition does not mean that theliving are dead; it means that the dead are living.To lead a productive life, not aparasitic one.To remain scrupulous to ourprinciples.To do the best you can; failing that,do the second best.To see virtue and to see depravity.If your faith is not enduring, youwill not endure.Extreme justice is extreme injustice.Important to life is not where orhow we stand –but in what direction we are going.You can never be a good captain onsmooth waters.Never try to be somebody else.

J.L: Wow! But – educate me. Howdo you explain Bill, the atrocitiesechoed against man? How do youget people to understand both sidesof the coin? How can people respectthese most important elements of life when they’re portrayed sodifferently? Earth is made up ofcardinal rules. The Cosa Nostradecided it would chair the committee.Yes, Bonannoism teaches that menmust aid each other, be true to theirfriends against all enemies, defendtheir dignity and that of their friends‘against all costs’, and never lettrespasses go unavenged, whileprotecting those less fortunatefrom injustice. This is what yourTradition believes. Yet, why thisstrong dichotomy? There has to be a logical conversion?

B.B: Jo Lee, Eugene O'Neil oncesaid that one's outer life passes insolitude by the masks of others.One's inner life passes in solitudehaunted by the masks of oneself.Further, myths form a bridgebetween implausibility andinevitability. People have a life and role independent of the rolethey play in events. It would beerroneous to make definitiveconclusions about people, judgingthem solely by what they do or donot do at any given time. Thosewho preserve their integrity remainunshaken by the storms of dailylife. They do not stir like leaves ona tree nor do they follow the herd.Within them remains the idealattitude and conduct of living; it’s

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Life is the shadow of a passing dream; thestory is short and finite; the only immortaltruth is love.

not something given to them – it is in their roots… it is a strengththat exists deep within them. Thatis what Bonannoism taught me.

I was told many years ago that it is okay to dream about what youwant to do; but do what you weremeant to do. Everyday or mundanecircumstances individually are noproblem. I've learned that 90% ofwhat we worry about never happens.Just make sure you're prepared to face(and or accept) the remaining 10%.

J.L: Bill, might you clarify then,what is meant by: “There is anatural law that supersedes all manmade laws. The promise betweenmen to pledge their faith and trustin mutual confidence transcends all injustices that may have beenperpetrated against them.”

B.B: The natural law that supersedesman made law is simply your faithin what is known universally as:The Golden Rule… “do unto othersas you would have them do unto you.”

J.L: Okay – so I’m going to lay onthe Billion dollar question! Historyhas written how wives and daughtersfrom the Families have had zeroinvolvement ‘with the business’. Itwas also important to your Fatherthat your much younger brotherJoseph, have little to no interest.What was it then that p-u-l-l-e-dand kept YOU in ‘the world’… untilyour father, some twenty years ago,said: “Finito?”

B.B: Good and evil are theologicalquestions, right or wrong are legalquestions. Family, friends andmutual acquaintances and therelationships between them, boundinto Tradition, are a cornerstoneof life. Respect, defined as theacknowledgment of power andplace, yours and somebody else’s, is what has kept me in “the world”for 50 years. It remains that wayuntil you’re released. Death finallyreleased me.

J.L: I’m still mesmerized. It’s apsychology Bill, that reminds me ofthe professor whose class is filled

with multiple ethnicities. Everyoneleaves the room with the interpretationtheir culture embraces. Yet theprofessor’s mind remains with ‘his’meaning. Please, help me here!

B.B: Jo Lee, if that professorinfluences just one student – he’saccomplished his mission. After all,education is hanging around untilyou’ve caught on for he who knowsnothing, doubts nothing. We fearthings in proportion to our ignoranceof them.

J.L: You mentioned Bill, that yourfather had been called many things,but to ‘The Family’ he was Father.Why do you feel so many people donot understand?

B.B: Why Father? America lacks a Father figure, it needs a Fatherfigure, craves a Father figure. Whatis missing in American society is aFather. My father was like a precisionviolin in a violin case; except theviolin is no longer playing for all to hear. We only hear the music hemakes in our hearts and minds.

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2. Mr. Bonanno’s garden in Tucson. 3. A panoramicview Joseph Bonanno never tired of. His hometown,Castellammare de Golfo, Trapani, Sicily. 4. Bill’ssister Catherine.

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J.L: There’s been a lot writtenabout your father: working in avery gentlemanly way. His methodof operation was at a differentlevel, to those of many of hiscontemporaries. So much so, thathe lived in harmony until the ageof 97. Your father was really at thehelm – within the ‘5’ Families – of‘wanting’ people to do good. Thiswas not interpreted clearly to theoutside world, was it?

B.B: Jo Lee, part of my father’sproblem was that he did not have acommand of the English language.In a high risk occupation whererisk of survival is great, it’s anamazing story that he lasted at thehelm for 46 years. He was educatedat the Italian Naval Academy, unlikehis contemporaries – whom thepublic considered a brutal lot. Hewas a rare quality in the Cosa Nostra.One of the few men who becamegreat – while remaining good.

J.L: Bill, both you and your fatherwere honored with the title of Knightby the Knights of Malta, an orderthat existed from the time of theCrusades and exists to this day. Anorder that embodies nobility, theCatholic faith, integrity of characterand corresponding social position.

B.B: The foundation and ideals ofthe Order of the Knights of Malta,Jo Lee, runs parallel to those idealswhich form the foundation of thatstate of mind handed down to peoplein my world for over 700 years.

J.L: What is it you can say to theworld then, that will give them amore comfortable embrace, as: The Knights of Malta? How do youget them to say: “Now, we see theflip side to the coin?”

B.B: What I give to the world are: “facts not talk" if one seeksapproval. However, the onlyapproval I look for is self-approvalbased on the knowledge that I havelived by the “rules” of a Tradition.The price one pays for pursing anycalling is an intimate knowledge ofits ugly side.

J.L: I understand that you, Bill –can trace your ancestry back to:The Leaning Tower of Pisa...

B.B: Our family moved to Sicilyaround 1340 from Pisa. Throughoutthe succeeding 600 years – theyspread and settled in Palermo,along the Gulf of Castellammareand into the surrounding mountainsof Western Sicily.

J.L: Bill, what did your father mean – when quoted on severaloccasions as saying: “The AmericanGovernment never understood!”

B.B: Joseph Bonanno meant…our government never understoodwhat our Tradition was all about norunderstood that not all people shouldbe painted with the same brush.Generalization is the privilege offools or tyrants. Our government,because they were ignorant of theways of our Tradition, demonstratedthat their fear was in direct proportionto their ignorance.

J.L: Did the same brush in that case– become a significant mould ofthe Bonanno family when producing:“Godfather 1” and “2”?

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5. Bill, Joseph Bonanno at his 95thbirthday celebration. Joe Jr., and SirEdward Artis, Commander, Knightsof Malta. 6. Joseph Bonannocelebrating his 95th, photo byAnthony Joseph

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B.B: The Bonanno family wasmolded long before Godfather 1 &2; however, both were stories aboutrelationships and loyalties and werebuilt on those ideals.

J.L: Yes, and these ideals Bill, onesees manifested in your children,your grandchildren. Their manners,talents and conversation – right out of the most stimulating book of etiquette – must make youproud. Then, there’s the role ofyour wife, your sister and the otheryoung women in the family whosevolunteer work alone, must consumeCalifornia and Arizona. Incredible!

B.B: Our immediate family numbers34. Each has been taught that we allhave an obligation to love each otherand we fulfill that obligation. Hence,while we leave room for dislike…never is non-love nor indifferencean option. We believe indifferenceis the essence of inhumanity.

J.L: There’s a story about Catherine.As a young girl attending BoardingSchool in Up State New York duringWorld War II… your father wouldfrequently telephone. One morninghe said: “Caterina, be sure to eatthe eggs the sisters serve you forbreakfast.” “Daddy,” she said. “Wedon’t have eggs. The rations ranshort several days ago.” “I’ll sendyou some,” he said. “Daddy, I can’t eat eggs without the othergirls having eggs too.” “I’ll take care of that” he echoed and hungup. A few days later, 2 HUGEtrucks, filled with eggs… arrived.

B.B: A perfect demonstration of theman, Jo Lee.

J.L: Your sister Catherine refers to the two of you as: ‘Calamity Janeand Buffalo Bill!’ I see tremendoustimes around this. Might you sharea couple of them?

B.B: Here, life imitates art. Prior to World War II, Catherine and Imade our first of many trips out west. In 1940 we stopped in CanonCity, Colorado. A local rodeo wastaking place; we ended up dressingin western clothes and the localsnicknamed us Calamity Jane andBuffalo Bill after we witnessed arecreation of the original BuffaloBill’s ‘Wild West Show’, populararound the turn of this past century.Of course, Catherine was more likeCalamity Jane than I was like BuffaloBill. Calamity was an exasperatingtom-boy, always getting into somekind of trouble; all I could do wasride well. These alter-egos followedus around for a number of years.

J.L: Bill, tell me about your lifetoday. In the coming years, whatcan the world expect from Salvatore(Bill) Bonanno?

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7. Bill and grandson David at his baptism andJoseph Bonanno7

B.B: My life is pretty simple. I ariseearly each day, usually around 5:00a.m. and spend three or four hourswriting. I’m finishing my secondbook which will be published nextyear. I receive manuscripts fromaspiring writers with hopes that oneor two will translate into a book ormovie. Maybe among them will be anew Hemmingway or Casablanca.

I have a life/a role independent ofmy public role, during the past 50years. We are responsible to thosewe can touch; therefore, my workhere on consists of making sure my14 grandchildren know it’s okay to ‘dream about what you want todo; but do what you were meant todo.’ My father’s greatest legacy tothose he left behind is a Tradition,a Tradition that has given us a wayof life with certain fixed values andwe will leave it to his death to testthe fruit of his life and determineif his reasoning came from hismouth or his heart.

J.L: Did you know you had a gift for producing?

B.B: I had been trained as a youngster,in the “people business.” The“people business” centered aroundyour ability to get the job done bygetting people to work together toaccomplish a given goal. That’s allproducing is. Getting people towork together. A producer’s bestfriend is his telephone/connectionsand his ability to get people to dowhat he wants them to do – even ifthey think it’s their idea.

J.L: Do everyday circumstances ever get you down, Bill?

B.B: No, not really, Jo Lee. Somecircumstances can only last tillmidnight; then it’s a new day withopportunities to face these problems,with renewed energy. My son Joseph,in November 1979, sent me a passagehe had read by Thomas Paine: “‘Tis the business of little minds toshrink, but he whose heart is firm,and whose conscience approves hisconduct, will pursue his principlesunto death.” I’ve used that thoughtto conduct both my private andpublic affairs. If your faith, inyourself and those around you, is enduring, you will endure.

J.L: Things happen to all of us thatcompletely change the direction ofour lives. Can you pinpoint Bill,what this was for you?

B.B: The one thing which changedthe direction of my life, was mybirth. It was all meant to be. OurHeavenly Father deals you a hand at birth and I’ve tried to faithfullyplay the cards, I was dealt.

J.L: The Bonanno name Bill – willbe revered through your followersfor hundreds and hundreds ofyears from now. I’m told that oneof the things people have alwaysknown about Bill Bonanno – is thatyou are a man of great magnitudeand what you want is to have thisbigness used to do great things. Ifever Bill, you had a chance to showthis side of you to the world – youhave a chance to show them, now.

Concealed: The Cool Side ofBonanno *2003*! You realizeyou’ve created a brilliant mosaichere, Bill. Your life transcendsbelief. But history today, shows

you’ve done it! Your best selling:“Bound by Honor” projects what‘your Tradition emphasized youmust do’ because of the compellingrespect for your father. And now,that he is no longer here, you’vetaken this value of brain power,and like a missile, have gonebeyond with THE SALVATOREBONANNO – that really is.

If you had but 20 words – for thehundreds of millions of youngpeople – faced with adversity, today– how might you help them, Bill?

B.B: Know yourself. Any fool canmake a decision but… to accept the responsibility and to take theconsequences of those decisions,separates those who succeed andthose who do not. Take the time to educate yourself about life. Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them. You do not achieve brilliance withoutconscience. Those who give have all things; those who withhold have nothing.

J.L: You are a very charismatic figure– and through this interview, ourreaders will have the opportunity to view – yet another side of life. I’m overcome! Mile grazie, Bill!

B.B: Take care to take care. «

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Those who give have all things; those who withhold have nothing.

March hosts the Academy Awards,St. Patrick’s Day and MarchMadness. March has JO LEEMagazine becoming more Special!

» Bottom line – watch YOUR health!

The most talked about subject in every

country. The ‘forever’ ongoing health

care crisis – always in terms of cost or

how many are uninsured. Who has had

what done to them, the insurance story

of the week, alternative versus real

health (MD’s) or who pays for what.

Q: I’m female and 52 and can’t decide

whether I am confused or amused!

Either way, I feel unsettled! Help.

DR. B: Stay away from the medical

system! It’s a dangerous place.

The Health Care System itself – is not

simple. The existing medical industry

isn’t about getting you healthy. You

must look to yourself and work at being

healthy. The more complicated part.

Over 400,000 individuals die each year

due to medical mistakes, complications,

what is done to them. Millions upon

millions more become gravely ill for

the same reasons.

Most people in most countries neglect

and do not take good care of themselves.

Here in the U.S. – we are the most

overweight, unfit, overfed/overeating,

chronically ill population in the world!

We are a huge part of the health care

crisis. We demand to be seen because

we don’t feel well. We want the latest

in technology. We want to be fixed once

we are sick and fixed again the next time

around! Where are we as consumers?

SMOKING The facts are

overwhelming – increased heart disease,

cancer, chronic lung disease, poor

circulation, premature death and aging

and unwanted wrinkles. I often say “if

you smoke, don’t bother to buckle up!”

The reality – smoking is a very

complicated addiction.

INACTIVITY For the human

body to function well, it must move –

all of it. 120 million Americans are

sedentary. Many more unfit. Inactivity is

playing a huge role in obesity, diabetes,

cardiovascular disease, problems with

insulin, fatigue, not feeling well, stress,

lack of energy, compromised longevity,

how you look and act, and on and on.

You need not think fitness as in being

an athlete. Think being physically active

and go from there.

STRESS Everywhere! Financial,

relationships, family, health, aging,

sex, work, the economy – pressures

and failures. Overlooked in all of this

is an understanding of the biochemical

response to stress. We are producing

huge amounts of adrenaline and steroids

that were designed to drive, fight or

flight. This means activity. We are busy

but we are not active. If something is

24/7 – it is stress!

I am convinced that the underlying

problem in the ‘why don’t people take

better care of themselves?’ resides with

the many people who are unhappy with

the way they’re living their lives. Each

day they feel more stuck and lose more

ground. They are caught up in more and

faster… with priorities and serenity often

unavailable. Sadly, many other people

are caught up in being a patient with

a diagnosis and believe that the health

care system is there to fix them.

Readers – go on alert. You have every

reason to be unsettled! « Until June, Dr. Bagshaw

For the Doctor » Click Here «

Dr. Jack Bagshaw practiced Cardiology,

Critical Care and Internal Medicine in

Marin County, California where he

served for seven years as Director of the

Coronary Care Unit (CCU). In 1979, he

founded PHYSIS, a Preventive Medicine

Company in San Francisco, with the

mission to see preventive technology

become part of the healthcare system.

He has a large and unique experience

with and in prevention and health care.

He is presently working on two books:

“Inactivity: Modern Man’s Major Health

Risk” and “Prevention and Aging”.

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STETHOSCOPE 911 »From San Francisco Bay to the hills and wine country of Sonoma.

By Dr. Jack Bagshaw

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We at JO LEE give you an ‘open’ invitationto embrace those who may otherwise not berecognized and assist them in ‘seeing thefuture before it arrives’.

THE Adeste Prize will be awarded to ‘The 40and under individuals’ for achievements inthe categories of Humanity, Social Justice,Technology, Arts, and Medicine.

Nominations are urged by readers aroundthe world. Please! Submit the name ofsomeone you believe is deserving of such anaward.

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» Provocative, tender, terrifying,exhilarating, imaginative, sheerfantasy – images of our lives andhuman history or future possibilitieshave been crafted in the minds ofscriptwriters, producers, technicians,and actors. What takes years todream of, evolve, and finallyproduce, carries us in a few briefhours into a visual and emotionalexperience through which we can make sense of our lives, orescape from it – that magical worldof MOVIES. While movies areproduced the world over, the nameHOLLYWOOD looms like a giantin the industry it cultivated so well.

Hollywood, California, USA – aplace like no other, affectionatelycalled ‘Tinsel Town’ – establishedits first motion picture studio in1911 and the world was never thesame. This March 23rd marks the 75th Annual Academy AwardsPresentation at Oscars’ new home,the Kodak Theater, to honor thevery best. While the event will betelevised throughout the world,there is nothing like being in themidst of this excitement.

Hollywood’s new face-lift camewith the glitzy $562-million retailentertainment complex at Hollywoodand Highland Boulevards, 130shops ranging from The Gap toLouis Vuitton, a Marriott Hotel,and two state-of-the-art subways.The north line links you toUniversal Studios and the HollywoodBowl, while the south to the LAMuseum of Contemporary andModern Art, Little Tokyo, and thefabulous Metropolis of Los Angeles.

You’re in Hollywood – lurk thelobby for autographs at the‘Standard’, a favorite meeting placefor a bevy of starlets and a frequentfilming location. The hippesthotel, ‘The Mondrain’, is wherethe industry’s shakers like to party.Their ‘Sky Bar’ has a spectacularview over the city and coast, wherehundreds of candles accent theirMiddle Eastern design. Into themusic scene? The ‘Chateau Marmont’on Sunset Boulevard attracts‘wannabe’ rock idols and folks of the music industry.

Be sure to take the time to eat –you need your strength for ‘star-search’. An eatery tradition since1919, the classic ‘Musso and Frank’sGrill and Steak House’ is one ofHollywood’s oldest and best. ‘TheCat and the Fiddle’ Restaurant,highly acclaimed and popular, isfrequented by the Stars, as well as‘The Dresden’, a landmark for over50 years which, while attracting thestars, offers reasonable menu pricescatering to the average person.‘Patina’, a highly acclaimed andaward winning restaurant, servesfood with a Franco-Californiaaccent in an elegant atmosphere.

Do you deserve the best? Luxuriatelike a movie star by staying at thedistinguished ‘Peninsula BeverlyHills Hotel’, rated the 8th besthotel in the USA. Designed in the manner of an elegant privateresidence including a full Spa andfitness center, the award-winningPeninsula offers pampering-luxury.With 196 rooms, 36 suites and 16villas nestled in lush gardens, itreplicates a small village unto itself.Their ‘Club Bar’, a favorite among

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YES, VIRGINIA! COME – EXPLORE WITH ME » By Audrey Lisette Hess-Eberle – Chicago, Illinois, USA

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the Hollywood elite, and theirRooftop Garden offering apanoramic view of Beverly Hillsand Century City, features liveentertainment nightly.

Don’t forget to do the normaltourist jaunts, like take the bus tourpast the stars’ homes, visit ‘Mann’sChinese Theater’ and place yourhands and feet over HarrisonFord’s prints (my hero), orexperience ‘Jurassic Park’, the ride, at Universal Studios. Afterall, this is Hollywood, that landmade bright by stars of the past and present. Did you rehearse

your lines and pack your bag full of dreams, just in case? «To Write Audrey » Click Here «

Each month as we venture out into our

world, your travel can consist of a visit to

the next town for the day, or a journey

that would place your feet clear on the

other side of the world. It is all about

discovery and your relationship to the

world which is everywhere you walk.

We all have different reasons as to why

we are attracted to a particular place –

and my suggestion is that you don’t

limit yourself.

Your travel life can stop by the mere

thought of “I can’t”, or it can start with

the thought of “I can, and will find my

way”. In the coming months, we will

cover the many aspects of travel. We will

consider everything from practicality to

reclusive escapes. We will travel to some

pretty fabulous, well known or off the

beaten track places.

So, sensitize yourself, flex your muscles

of awareness, open your mind for all

possibilities and… COME – EXPLORE

WITH ME.

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1. Rodeo Drive – amongst the best shops in Hollywood 2. Beverley Hills Hotel 3. Kate Winslet arriving at the Oscars 4. What Hollywood is famous for 5. The exhilarating world of Hollywood

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» Capital markets experienced a ‘bubble’! This happens whenspeculative excess peaks then bursts,leading to investor crisis, panic,irrational sell-off and flight to liquidity.

The recent market downturn is simplyanother destabilization of normallystable markets. Unfortunately, investorstend to forget history and manufacturenew reasons for promoting, andfollowing, speculative manias.

The most recent of these is‘Technomania’ where investors wereconvinced technology represented a‘new economy’. Traditional fundamentalmeasures (price earnings multiples,competent management, market share, industry position, relative sectorperformance and revenue growth) were

FEATURE » By Douglas A.S. Mills

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

WHY THE MARKET(“TWO THUMBS DOWN!”)

THIS TIMECRASHED

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ignored. Traditional measureswere replaced by: peg-ratios, marketindex weights and future promises.Dreams were woven by corporatemanagement and market touts.

The dreams were founded on anunending demand for communicationand technology products and services.As with all euphoria, Technomaniawas founded, then feasted onignorance, greed and the herdinstinct.

Believe It! Excessive investorexpectations were fueled by seven deadly ingredients.

Deadly Ingredient 1Modern management compensationpractices focused on rewardingperformance. These rewards oftentook the form of stock options,tying management emoluments tothe market price of the companystock, thereby linking managementprosperity with the shareholders’.This provided a disproportionateincentive to manage short-termstock prices at the expense of long-term earnings. The practice often led to creative accounting and even fraudulent misrepresentation.While only some managementgroups managed stock prices,investors tended to attribute the

practice to everyone, with attendantloss of confidence and trust in bothmanagement and capital markets.

Deadly Ingredient 2Changes in the accounting industry may have eroded auditor independence. Faced withescalating costs and a shrinkingstable of clients, due to industryrationalization, audit firmsexpanded services to includeconsulting and other advisoryservices. This created conflictswithin the accounting firm itself; itwas difficult for the audit functionto gainsay what the consulting

Investors tend to forget history andmanufacture new reasons for promoting,

and following, speculative manias.

1. Time and money 2. Euro prices 3. Award ceremony held by nas NASDAQ 4. Office buildings

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group had implemented. Further,as non-audit services increased,fees accruing from each client grewproportionately, making retention of clients increasingly essential.Commercially, these trends mayhave tended to compromise objectivity.Arguably, the shareholders watchdogwas getting tamer.

Deadly Ingredient 3Securities Analysts working withinvestment banks were also conflicted.Professionally, analysts are requiredto pursue fairness in valuing andrecommending securities. From acareer perspective, the same analystsare expected to promote theiremployers’ inventory of underwrittensecurities and “talk up” theirvirtues. Further, certain seniorcorporate executives were allottedshares in ‘hot’ new issues byinvestment banks to encourage

underwritings of future corporateissues by the obliging investmentbank. Finally, fund managers,compensated on relativeperformance to other funds andmarket indices, focused attentionon index weights and securitynames and avoided “big bets.”Many were lulled into the corporateearnings ‘guidance trap’ wherecorporate management couldvirtually ‘dictate’ stock prices toanalysts who ignored fundamentalresearch, objectivity and absolute returns.

Deadly Ingredient 4Regulators, such as the SecuritiesCommissions, were largely ignored,under-funded and understaffedduring the ‘90’s bull market. Therewas confidence that self-regulatingorganizations (SRO’s) would ensureobjective perspectives and ethical

practices. Clearly the Regulatorswere weak and significant steps arenow underway to rectify this. TheSRO’s by themselves were simplyunable to combat the new alliancesand motivational forces in thecapital markets.

Deadly Ingredient 5Political issues including terrorism,elections, monetary policy and ahost of uncertainties and distractions,provided a backdrop of uncertaintyto markets and deflected attentionfrom market realities.

Deadly Ingredient 6Instant communication of marketactivity produced two phenomena.First, rapid communication ofcorporate "spin" accentuated thepositive, leading to higher prices.

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Secondly, constant communicationtended to turn the focus of longer-term investors into shorter term,making them market timers,thereby increasing market volatility.

Deadly Ingredient 7Finally, persistently low interestrates and expanded money supplymade fixed income securities lessattractive, leaving little alternativefor market investors other thanequities.

Some Players Won, Big-Time! Manymanagement teams managed theiroption benefits taking advantage of clubby Boards, stretchedindependence of audit firms andunderstaffed market regulators.Some allied themselves withinvestment bankers who ‘arranged’risk-free profits from "hot" newissues in exchange for corporatebusiness. Investment banking analystsbreached ‘Chinese Walls’ and‘talked-up’ a company’s stock, furtherbenefiting management. It was anunholy but highly profitable alliance.

At the core of this sad scenario is the breakdown of individualmorals and business ethics.Corporate governance went out the window in many cases. Boardsof Directors, supposedly responsibleto shareholders, became mereextensions of Corporate Management.Responsibility was abdicated,accountability went unmeasuredand tough questions went unasked.

It was a great party while it lasted.Everyone stood to benefit with themutual profit alliances outweighingthe watchdogs, which were eithershackled or asleep… leaving theherd of investors to be led willinglyinto escalating risks at the equitycasino.

Denouement The guilty have beenidentified and paraded before themedia. The watchdogs have eitherbeen shot or jerked awake. Boardsof Directors are being restructuredand Auditors are spinning offconsulting divisions. Reputationshave been savaged and suspectsparaded publicly as felons, evenprior to trial. The entire spectaclehas sullied the American Dream.

Meanwhile, investors sit on thesidelines, cynically waiting forbetter times. It takes time forwounds to heal and credibility to mend: thank goodness memoryis short. Yet this is simply anotherchapter where mania leads to panic and panic leads to marketcorrection. The painful processrepresents the transition from greedto fear to greater market stability.

IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN! Nexttime, only the ingredients and the players will differ; but greed,fear and ‘new economics’ areguaranteed to be involved in…"MARKET CRASH!… THESEQUEL"– coming sometime to a market near you.

Douglas Mills is Chairman of The

Glencreggan Limited, a financial and

organizational consulting group. He

is the retired CEO of Scotia Cassels

Investment Counsel, Toronto, Canada,

a major asset management firm.

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The entire spectacle has sulliedthe American Dream.

» The Academy Awards is certainly a time when peoplebecome even more concerned about their appearance.We look carefully at the screens to see what fashions the stars are wearing and who has a new, revitalizedface. Audiences are playing ‘spot the Botox junkie’while at the same time rushing off for their own quickfix. According to Dr. Beninger, the group of productscalled ‘injectables’ are being used with increasingfrequency. “Last year, more than 1.6 million Botoxtreatments were performed in the U.S. with multitudeshaving crossed the border to me”, says Dr. Beninger.“Availability is one reason Americans are descendingon Toronto. But price is another factor. The exchangerate on American dollars… flexes between + 50 to 60% on CDN funds. The ultimate!”

Dr. Beninger grew up in rural Canada. Graduatingwith close to perfect marks, he was awarded numerousscholarships and selected as one of seven doctors to be trained as Plastic Surgeons in the whole of Canada.( New York City, could have this number of residentsin a single hospital.) He then was selected to continuetraining in Cosmetic Plastic Surgery at the Manhattan

Eye Ear and Throat Hospital in New York City. Thishospital is the largest cosmetic surgery hospital in theworld with several thousand such surgeries each year.Dr. Beninger’s skills were carefully honed under thedirection of Dr. Sherell Aston and Dr. Dan Baker.Celebrities, royalty, and high–powered money mogulswere a daily occurrence.

Today, Dr. Beninger practices within Toronto,Canada’s exquisite Yorkville village… (The equivalentof Chicago’s Millionaire Mile, New York’s Park andMadison Avenues, and Los Angeles’ Rodeo Drive) andhas mastered what no other Canadian Plastic Surgeonhas ever done. He limited his practice to cosmeticsurgery. An area where development of techniques andprocedures increases at an explosive pace. “In order tobe the best Cosmetic Surgeon and get the best results,one must constantly evolve their technique. I felt I should devote full energies to this area of surgeryalone. The procedure has been extremely refined tomaintain a ‘natural look’, avoid obvious scars – and in some cases eliminate hairline scars behind the ears,eliminate distortion of the hairline and ear lobes while

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FEATURE » By JO LEE Magazine – New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Toronto

MichelangeloIn Our Times

With the Academy Awards rapidly approaching, Tinsel town is abuzzwith activity. Stretch limousines are being buffed and polished to aperfect sheen as are their celebrity occupants. Los Angeles PlasticSurgeons are being swamped with last minute nips, sucks, and tucksas well as enough Botox to fill several Hollywood directors’ pools.The frenzy is not limited to California! North of the United Statesborder, similar activity is occurring in the office of one of the mostbrilliant ‘Michelangelos’ alive! Board Certified Plastic Surgeon – Dr. Frank Beninger.

Dr. J. Beninger

at the same time minimizing bruising, swelling, and‘down-time’ for patients in busy work and social lives.

Patients today are procedure savvy. A surgeon must beeminently knowledgeable to answer their questions. Patients do not take diagnosisand advice blindly. They often challenge you and wemust be current with our knowledge.”

What single feature distinguishes Dr. Beninger? Hishonesty! “No beating around the bush. If I thinksurgery will offer no benefit or improvements, I tell theperson such. Many people are under intense pressureto look their best. Some feel cosmetic surgery is theironly answer. Why take risks and expenses that are notrequired,” says Dr. Beninger!

And what about patients motivated for the wrongreasons? There are patients who request abreast augmentationhoping it will improve the relationship with their partner. Surgery,performed by othersurgeons, did not help the failing relationship and now they want to berid of any reminders ofthe person. Some patientsrequest a procedurebecause their partner hasdemanded so. Others feelsurgery will get them apromotion. Then, thereare times when patients

‘seem’ to have the right motivation, but there’s a sixthsense that something is just not right. These situationsare handled very delicately. In my experience”, states Dr.Beninger, “this gut feeling is always correct. No matterhow good a result this person gets, they remain hostile,aggressive, bitter, and may be dangerous.” I have had onesuch experience where my staff was put on alert… andanother where I received a telephone threat because Irefused to do surgery.

Success stories are amazinghowever and very high.Some people’s lives really do change. I recallone woman on whom Iperformed a face and brow lift. Preoperatively,she looked like someone in her sixties even thoughshe was 42. Her clothingwas unflattering, and herpersonality very timid andintroverted. During herfollow-up appointments,she was unrecognizable –looking like one in herthirties… vivacious and outgoing. She told me she’d felt trapped in an older body and lacked any self-confidence. Her whole life had changed. She was immensely grateful.”

Dr. Beninger works in association with The BeresfordCenter. A group, interested in preventative healthcare. It has a GP who specializes in women’s health, a naturopath, a massage therapist, aestheticians, achiropractor, a hair restoration and transplant doctor,image consulting and makeup, and a hair salon. It also specializes in Anti-Aging treatments… the first of its kind in Canada where they developed their ownprogram, from the beginning. “The results have beenphenomenal. We are able to treat the aging processwithout the use of Growth Hormone or other forms of hormone replacement.”

As for Dr. Beninger’s personal life? Extremely active.“My second career choice was to be an AeronauticalEngineer, a rocket scientist” jokes Dr. Beninger. “I’vealways been fascinated by how things work, what makesthem tick, and can fix just about anything – all at mycottage on Georgian Bay.”

Some people look at works of art.But Dr. Beninger? Like Michelangelo – he looks at art, as his work. «

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What single feature distinguishes Dr. Beninger? His honesty! “No beating around the bush.If I think surgery will offer no benefit or improvements, I tell the person such. Manypeople are under intense pressure to look their best. Some feel cosmetic surgery is theironly answer. Why take risks and expenses that are not required,” says Dr. Beninger!

Last minute nips, sucks, and tucks

Enough Botox to fill a director’s pool

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FEATURE » By Lois Gordon, Marriage Counselor – Los Gatos, California

The Flavorsof a Family

» A family is like an ice creamstore; so many different flavorsand combinations of flavors.Some mixed together areperfect, others a bit off balance.It would be very bland if wewere all plain vanilla. But add a little strawberry and you havea taste delight. Or chocolate,yum… how can anyone resist?

The same is true of a family; how dull if everyone had the sametemperament or coloring. Thesame ideas, how boring! Independentthinkers are needed to stir the potand keep us on our toes. Would weall be tall and skinny? (Well, I guess

if we had a choice). Isn’t it wonderfulthat we don’t have a choice? Genesplay a big part. No, I don’t meanLevi’s; genes that Mom and Dadbring to the family. If the fat goesto the wrong places and arms arenot slim and beautiful, blame yourgreat-grandmother. Don’t worryand get upset about those things youcan’t change. Change those you canand enjoy life with what you have.

Viewing a family from the outsideis interesting. Some personalitiesare loud, self-assured, some quietand determined; some with a greatsense of humor and some less jovial.And yet, they share their lives becausethey are a part of each other. Ohyes, they can argue and say theynever want to see each other again,and then a special event happensand they are happy for each other.Some find it difficult to accept theyare loved, but in a family the bondsare very strong.

The journey begins at conception.The mother is thrilled to be carryinganother human life. She eats the

proper foods and prepares for thebirth. Eating right is the easy part.Preparing to be the guardian ofanother soul and life is the biggestjob; the most important jobimaginable. It is a path of love,patience, discipline and commitment.

Raising a family is a challenge.There are multiple personalities,each vying for individual andspecial time and space! And theunrelenting barrage of televisionand movies teaching life in afantasyland, with no ethics or morals.It is exhausting, exhilarating, anddemanding; but totally worth it. Itis life’s greatest challenge.

Every person born has the samebasic needs and wants; to be lovedand sheltered from life’s extremes;to be given food and clothing, but more than that, to be givenunconditional love and acceptancefrom those around them, especiallytheir parents. Considering thateach life experience is different,and each environment is differentfor each person, even living in the

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same home, it is sometimes difficultto provide the needs of each personand cultivate that closeness. Thebasic needs of love, security, shelterand food may be easy under normalconditions; it’s the extra for thatinner self that is difficult and notalways met. Even with all of theproblems, family is the mostimportant unit there is; and the most rewarding.

Much energy is required to keep afamily alive. The pull to be unitedand sharing is like a huge magnet.Hurt feelings happen. Compromisesmust be worked out. The importanceof shared days and holidays cannotbe denied.

Our family has always enjoyed Easter.When I was a child Easter was aglorious day; a time to reflect, grow,restart life with good intentionsand, enjoy family and friends. For days we colored hard boiledeggs for hiding. Everyone wentshopping and bought a new outfit,complete with gloves and hats forthe girls; suits and ties for the boys.

Candy was bought for the Easterbaskets. On Easter Sunday, everyonewent to church in their new Easterfinery. Dinner was always wonderful;baked ham, mashed potatoes, andall the trimmings.

The Easter egg hunt was the highlightof the day. Adults spent a lot of timehiding the eggs and the childrenwere given baskets filled with green,phony grass to collect the eggs. Thechildren were arranged accordingto age; youngest to oldest got out ofthe door first. Prizes and accoladesto the ones who found the most eggs.Somehow there was always one eggthat never got found. I loved Easterand so the tradition continued withour children and our grandchildren;a wonderful day with the family. Wefill baskets with goodies to take tothe people who have no one. So alesson of sharing is taught.

Besides blood relatives – there areother forms of family. Becausehumans desire to be loved andneeded, they should form bondswith others. Friends, neighbors,

social clubs, and volunteer groupsare wonderful ways to form closefriendships. This is the food forthe soul and heart.

Take the time for everyday activitieswith family and sharing specialdays; birthdays, Christmas, Easter,or a summer picnic is vital; allowall the flavors to mix and enjoyeach person’s uniqueness. Some of the flavors may blend poorly,but the respect for each person andthe specialness of each person hasto be held in high esteem. If younever take the time to get to knowsomeone – all you see is the façadethat surrounds them.

You need to spend time and reachthe heart. A family – is a lifelongcommitment. «

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You need to spend time andreach the heart. A family – is alifelong commitment.

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» 2002 WAS A TERRIBLEYEAR INWORLDFINANCE.9/11 CHANGEDTHE WORLDFOREVER.SOLUTIONS WERE SCARCEIF NOTABSENT.

Blame could readily be distributedto any combination of:

Trial lawyers, insurers, the U.S.adversarial legal system, auditors,human greed, the Security andExchange Commission and itschairman. The generally acceptedaccounting principles which are not generally accepted with diversecountry by country differences, sizeof international companies, conflictsof interest of large accounting firmswith profitable consulting groups.

It can be concluded that thechallenge might be met, if we draw attention to two realities. Theworld has yet to address the urgentneed for one, enforceable global codefor trade and commerce includingintellectual property such as patentsand trademarks. This must be coupledwith mandatory guidelines withlicensing rewards, punishments and damage award controls withrationalization of a global uniformbusiness and a real legal system.Exploiting the GAT might also be helpful.

Here follows a further explorationof both personal conduct and inconclusion – an approach to acommon business and trade code.A new GAP and a new oversight groupto regulate accounting, financialstatements and auditing includingall firms, regardless of size.

For ExampleCorporate size with moderntechnology can be managed. A fewlarge accounting firms or even one– cannot be blamed for the apparentmisconduct of a few practitioners.The General Agreement should beused to establish a global, uniformbusiness and commercial code whichis needed urgently. Nothing willfacilitate optimum world trade as,for example: uniform rules for theprotection of intellectual property.The common fairytale that auditfirms who provide consultingservices, represent another obstacleto honest and reliable audits – is hogwash. The author furthersuspects that greedy and

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FEATURE » By Gerald G. Fisch, Winner of the McKinsey Award – Practicing Globally

The10Commandments

10WHERE DO ‘THE 10 COMMANDMENTS’ COME IN?

dishonorable trial lawyers andbrokerage firms started the rumorreflecting their own guilty consciences.

Let me ask then – do even one ofthe Ten Commandments, apply? «

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� HAVE you heard that a large number of prominent

corporate execs...

� ABOUT alleged criminal fraud...

� WALL Street are up to their neck...

� THAT the politicians/lawmakers have lost control...

� THE senate or the congress/the lower house...

� WHO are the (real) players: lawyers/accountants/auditors/

management consultants...

� WHO are the (real) brokerage firms/the investors/the

employees...

� WHERE do the stock exchanges fit in...

� WHO is responsible for the present mess...

� CAN you run/manage a large complex society like a

perpetual debate...

� HOW do you avoid broad-brush solutions to complex problems...

� GLOBAL or just American...

� SUCCESS? economics/ capitalism with a solid dose of social

safety nets...

� U.S. vs. the British model...

� THE UNITED NATIONS...

� GOD and integrity in business...

� RELIGIONS, morality and the rule of law...

Gérald Fisch is an MIT graduate in both engineering and

management. His best selling book “Organization for

Profit” won the McKINSEY AWARD together with Peter

Drucker and John K. Galbraith. He’s authored multiple

articles for the Harvard Business Review and is a past

member of the executive/policy committee of two of the

large International Accounting firms where he practiced

globally. Mr. Fisch is currently CEO of GGF Global

Management & Capital Corporation.

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» I recently participated as one of five scholars in the FirstGlocal Forum. The term ‘glocal’relates to the need to ‘connect’,to establish social cohesion and collaborative potential toallow individuals and regions of the globe to prosper in ourincreasingly interconnectedglobal economy.

This invitational meeting took place in Rome, Italy. It wasattended by the Mayors of Boston,Washington, Stockholm, and Paris;senior diplomats and officials fromIsrael, Palestine, and Pakistan;World Bank President JamesWolfensohn; Nobel Prize winnerShimon Perez; United Nationsrepresentatives, and mayors fromtwenty five of the world’s largestcities. Approximately fifty youngpeople (16 to 23) of the GlobalYouth Parliament presented avision for the world. Our meetingsculminated with a presentation toPope John Paul, II and a never-to-

be-forgotten peace concert in theColiseum. Voices were from regionsthat have suffered from tyranny,social unrest, and civil war. Welistened to these voices of sufferingand hope rising above the floorwhere the gladiators of vanquishedlands once ‘entertained’ theirconquerors in the age of antiquity.It was a time of deep reflection.

I was invited to shed light on thesocial chasms that divide our world– the digital divide; often describedin simplistic terms as differences inaccess to the Internet that are basedon economic, ethnic, gender, orage-related considerations. This is wrong headed because it defines‘success’ nominally or if individualshave access to the Internet somewhere.For example, if you can get accessto the Internet in a school, library,at work, etcetera; then you are not onthe wrong side of the digital divide.

However, digital access is only oneelement of a whole new social reality,of how societies are structuringthemselves, and what economicopportunities are being redistributed.The where in somewhere matters.

The important question is underwhat conditions does inclusion orexclusion from Internet networkstranslate into better opportunity orgreater inequality. It will help tobetter understand the demographyof our world.

The global economy consists of verylarge, interconnect metropolitanregions; the hubs of our networkedworld. In 1970, thirty-seven percentof the world’s population lived incities. Today, roughly half live inmajor cites, and by 2025 two-thirdswill live in major metropolitan areas.These regions have become a resourcefor exchange, collaboration, learningand decision-making. But, the poorhave not benefited from these shifts.Half of the world’s populationsubsists on less than two dollars a

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FEATURE » By Professor James L. Koch, PhD – Director, The Centerfor Science, Technology, and Society And Professor of ManagementSanta Clara University, California – Former Dean, The Leavey Schoolof Business and Administration

DIGITAL DIVIDE’Social Chasm of The Information Age

IN 1970, THIRTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION LIVED IN CITIES. TODAY, ROUGHLY HALFLIVE IN MAJOR CITES, AND BY 2025 TWO-THIRDS WILL LIVE IN MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS.

day. The Digital Divide is intertwinedwith social and economic chasms.Bridges are required for those nowmarginalized, or on the wrong sideof this social divide due to poverty,access to quality education (humancapital), or access to empoweringsocial networks (social capital).

Internet access must focus on thehuman, financial, and social capitalneeded in a globalizing networkedeconomy. Economic research oninformation and communicationtechnology indicates that, in relationto education, Information andCommunication Technology (ICT) has both complimentary and substitution effects. It iscomplimentary for well-educatedknowledge workers. At the sametime, there are ‘substitution’ effects for those with low levels ofeducational attainment. The harshreality is that low skill work is being

replaced by technology. Fewerpeople work in factories today.Those who do are likely to requireICT knowledge.

The lifetime income gap betweencollege educated and high schooleducated grew substantially duringthe last two decades. So, education,knowledge, and know-how are key

if ICT access is to contribute toeconomic opportunity.

The Digital Divide is intertwinedwith social class, ethnicity, gender,and age. In Silicon Valley householdswith $75,000 in annual incomehave three times the penetration rateof Internet access in comparison tohouseholds with annual incomes of $20,000. Tremendous gapsexist in Internet utilization betweenthe Asian and White populationsand Black and Latino populations.Only 19 percent of computerscience majors are women. We are

failing to tap the intellectualreservoir of roughly half of thepopulation for design of futureICT technologies.

‘Socio-technical’ system changesare reshaping our informationeconomy. They are not abouttechnology; they are about creatingnew capabilities, new social systems,

and new possibilities based on the power of information; a long-term, evolutionary process of ‘socio-technical’ and structural change.

Internet access in schools hasincreased. However, Internetconnections are but a small portionof what is needed. Tremendouschanges in curriculum, pedagogy,skills, and technical support areneeded. In the corporate enterpriseonly 15 percent of ICT expensesare in software and hardware.Eighty-five percent of costs are in support and services.

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THE LIFETIME INCOME GAP BETWEEN COLLEGE EDUCATED AND HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATED GREWSUBSTANTIALLY DURING THE LAST TWO DECADES. SO, EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE, AND KNOW-HOW ARE KEY IF ICT ACCESS IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.

The nations representing fifteenpercent of the world’s populationproduce essentially all of theworld’s technology. For all tobenefit from technology, theremust be an environment in whichindividuals are users and creatorsof technology. Efforts to bridge theDigital Divide must be ‘grounded’in reality; that is, recognize thedifficulty of deploying technologiesand the harsh social constraintsthat confront many of ourbrethren.

The Center for Science, Technology,and Society is involved with anawards program since November2001, called Technology BenefitingHumanity (www.sts.scu.edu). Theseawards address the challenges that wemust address if the benefits are to beextended to a broader spectrum ofhumanity. The Center’s inauguralrecipients included hand crankradios for impoverished Africanvillages, inexpensive prosthetics forthe developing world, and low costmaterials for rural electrification in Brazil.

To bridge the Digital Divide wemust adapt technology to users and create processes for continuoussocial learning in the uses of theInternet and combine Internetaccess with the human, financial,and social capital that is needed to turn access into information,information into knowledge, and knowledge into the know-how that is needed to improve thequality of life for all. This task is a noble and worthy cause, and it is increasingly urgent. «

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THE NATIONS REPRESENTING FIFTEEN PERCENT OF THE WORLD’SPOPULATION PRODUCE ESSENTIALLY ALL OF THE WORLD’S TECHNOLOGY.FOR ALL TO BENEFIT FROM TECHNOLOGY, THERE MUST BE ANENVIRONMENT IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS ARE USERS AND CREATORS OF TECHNOLOGY. EFFORTS TO BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE MUST BE‘GROUNDED’ IN REALITY; THAT IS, RECOGNIZE THE DIFFICULTY OFDEPLOYING TECHNOLOGIES AND THE HARSH SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS THAT CONFRONT MANY OF OUR BRETHREN.

1. Rome’s Coliseum 2. Israeli singer – Noa 3. James Wolfensohn – President of the World

Bank 4. Shimon Perez 5. Pope John Paul II

» This topic always draws a number

of different views and opinions.

Unfortunately, like so many of my

columns – I cannot expand too much

but simply give my prerogative. The

question is: Do we blame the athletes

themselves for the mistakes they make

or do we blame society for putting

athletes on a different level.

Most professional athletes are very

talented from a young age. They receive

a certain amount of attention from

parents, peers, teachers and the media

for their successes on the court or field.

The attention continues throughout

their lives. Through high school they

are looked upon as superior individuals.

Soon, they live the same emotions

in university. Athletes receive special

treatment everywhere! They are given

every advantage because they are

talented. In other words: they live in a

make believe world that is very easy to

get caught up in. We give these athletes

more advantages because we believe

they deserve it. Or, maybe we wish we

were as good as they are.

So here’s the scenario which I believe

gets most athletes into trouble. Not just

athletes but people in general. The athlete

is in his office, on the court or field. Much

like me and you, everyday. He’s had a

great day, which happens to me and you

once in awhile. So, he decides to go for a

drink with his teammates, our workmates.

The similarities end there. He arrives at

his place of choice and every bartender

wants him to sit at his or her bar. They

offer him a drink. The people at the bar

want to be associated with him so – they

move toward him. As the night goes on,

more people offer drinks, want to talk,

bid for attention. More women want to

get closer, more guys get jealous. He’s a

big shot! Your friend from accounting

isn’t really the life of the party.

But what does this have to do with

athletes and crime? My point is that

athletes believe from a young age that

they should be held on a different level.

When the athlete from our scenario

jumps into his car and gets caught

for drunk driving and possession of

marijuana, he still believes he should

get away with it and it’s no big deal. For

most others, it could cost them their jobs

and maybe their families.

Remember! The superstar athlete that

gets into trouble – is somebody’s brother

or cousin. Most of us have a brother or

cousin who has been in trouble. So don’t

be surprised! They are regular people in

irregular circumstances.

In my opinion, professional sports teams

will no longer maintain this laissez-faire

attitude with players. Soon, one owner

will start a trend to release outright any

player who has trouble with the law.

Then, we will see a new standard set…

for athletes in a sport. «Next Special:THE MEDIA IN SPORTS

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HALFTIME » By James Mansell – Montréal, Québec

Prime Time or Crime TimeHi folks! I predict sports teams will soon release any athletewho breaks the law.

» The art of the brilliant hunch! Hello dear friends.

Excitement within the world of television history canbe deduced under one word. Oscar! Donning one’sfinery – we cloak in splendor, proudly sharing thethrill and glamour of one of the brightest evenings in the year of film.

So, do come with me as we draw ourselves into the mostimportant extension of the night. The luxury of finedining. We’ll emerge above the lights of the whole ofSan Francisco and savor the blend of beauty on thetable before us.

My guests are four and as Mrs. Guilford (Jane) Dudley,wife of former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark – I’vetaken risks as I put together a table to stimulate thesenses of my guests.

Formal dinners are no time to hold back. Intimacy anda forest of flowers whose glittering opulence verges on

debauch… spring up amid a thicket of candlesticks and‘Rock Cut’ crystal. Here and there vermeil apple boxesreflect the scene.

Framboise Rose’ establishes the dominant color ofTiffany Private Stock porcelain, ‘English King’ vermeilflatware, ‘Honeycomb’ cut crystal, and the classicindividual Bordeaux Bottle Baccarat decanters designedby Tiffany’s Van Day Truex… with the daintiest glassbaskets holding salt and pepper. My graceful white andgold lacquered Italian Regency chairs, upholstered inrose moiré silk, are from Rose Cumming. The paintedleather screen with its Chinoiserie motifs in the styleof Pillement, is from Florian Papp.

Now – go out and can capture this. Saluti e buonappetito from my Italian home to yours. «

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THRU THE EYES OF JO LEE CELEBRATING BEAUTY » By Jo Lee

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» There are millions of filmmakersacross the country who know there will be ‘just those few’ hundred films that’ll make it thisyear in Hollywood. This is not onlyfrustrating for filmmakers – butfor the film consumer, too. Why is it society keeps going for that oldmainstream? Millions of excitingideas and scripts… discarded.

WHAT IFOpposed to the few dozen $50million blockbusters each year – we rather, had thousands of filmsat $1 to $5 million a pop. Let usnot forget – we’re receiving but a miniscule lot of the full panoplyof possible movies.

WHAT IFWe had new and better policies that would lead us toward a more enlightened world. That allleaders would join in endorsingthese policies. Imagine – aninternational spokesperson, likeAung San Su Ky, the dissidentleader of Burma, on internationaltelevision saying:

“Did you all see the movie ‘Network’where everyone leaned out theirwindow and shouted ‘I’m mad ashell and I’m not going to take itanymore?”

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POLITICALLY RED »By Lani Silver – San Francisco, CaliforniaHARRISON FORD

TAKE A PAY CUT5

Well – where are our leaders? Didyou know that 200 million died in the last century from war andgenocide? Too many people arestarving; racism is rampant. Wehave to figure out HOW to improveour educational systems; save ourenvironment; reform our prisons;and provide more child-care. And so on.

WHAT IFWe were all asked to join one ofhundreds of committees to makeup a ‘blue-print’ of HOW we coulddramatically change society. HOWcan we thrive, as a society? I’d signup for the ‘Committee on Film’. Acommittee charged with developinga plan to bring about massiverestructuring of ‘Hollywood’.

1. I’d cease paying stars$20,000,000 per movie.Democracy means ‘equal access’ tolife and the mere dozens of moviesbeing made, just don’t cut it!Think – of the multiple subtle anddelicate stories waiting to be told…so many intricate tales of wonderor woe. I’d put a ‘cap’ on filmbudgets.

2. I’d have Harrison Ford, AdamSandler, Julia Roberts and hundredsof others step forward and say:“I’mgoing to take a pay-cut. More filmsmean more people being employed”.

3. I’d remind people that inEurope, there isn’t the ‘star’ systemwe have here in America. In manyinstances, they take the $20,000,000we give to one star, and create asystem whereby Opera, Ballet, Theaterworkers draw a reasonable salary.Hundreds of artists are employed.In America, most artists starve.

4. I’d get an army of bookkeepersinto Hollywood. We all know about‘creative accounting’. What is reallygoing on there? We all know ahandful of people get richer andricher!

5. I’d implement a rulingwhereby: 1% only, of all filmsmade, could show: women beingkilled or beaten; no dead children;no snipers or terrorists; no racism.Don’t you ever forget that ‘violencebegets violence’!! Movies andtelevision affect people.

6. I’d expand film schools, so anew generation of filmmakerscould be trained.

7. I’d lower the price of movietickets. $8 per head is pretty highfor the majority. WITHOUT – inthis wonderful country of ours! «To Write Lani » Click Here «

Lani Silver – historian, artist, free-lance

writer, and Lecturer with the American

Program Bureau. (Gorbachev’s bureau –

Desmond Tutu, Jane Fonda, Oscar Arias).

For 16 years, Lani directed San Francisco’s

landmark Holocaust Oral History Project,

conducting l700 oral histories with

Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Lani

and her partner, historian Eric Saul,

discovered the story of Chiune Sugihara,

who is called “The Japanese Schindler.”

Lani became Steven Spielberg’s first

consultant and trainer for his Survivors of

the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

53,000 testimonies. Lani is currently the

Project Director for the James Byrd Jr.

Racism Oral History Project.

byrdfound@juno.com

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1. Harrison Ford taking a pay cut? 2. Aung San Su Ky – Dissident leader ofBurma 3. Would Julia Roberts work forless 4. Movie and television affect people

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Q:Dear CamPUS \ Judy –New Jersey, USA

Here it is Academy Awards month.Every year my friends and I indulgein ‘Oscar’. Like most – it’s peoplewatching and what they’re wearing.The thing is… in the last year my father lost his job when hiscompany downsized. I’ve movedback home to help with expensesand am really feeling the crunch.Financially and emotionally. I no longer can relate to big celebswith big time cash. Problem is, my friends don’t get it. What do Ido about the party?

A: Cheer up, Judy. Tightbudgets aren’t much fun but thereare exciting ways around it! Let’sstart with the party. Can you relateto your friends? Trust them. They’llrespect your situation. After all, it‘will’ change for the better. Whatabout doing a potluck… and usingthe blender for those smoo…thies.Besides, 90% of anything you seeon TV is frivolous! So, grasp realitywith humor today and make thosedreams exciting to-morrow.

Q:Dear Campus \ Rod K. –Amsterdam, Netherlands

Usually, I feel great at this time of year. I get out my bike and hit

the off-road stuff every chance Iget. It’s Spring and the air feelsamazing after a long winter. Don’tknow what’s wrong with me thisyear! It’s completely different.I’m feeling down much of the time.I can barely get out of bed in themorning let alone exercise. This is a drag. Help! I don’t want to belike this.

A: Rod, you’re so not alone.Millions of people suffer the blues.Have a talk ‘with yourself’ anddon’t let up until your inner-voice explains the dilemma. Then,before you begin altering majorroads in your life, be sure yourdilemma is not medically related. If it is, today’s mix between westernand alternative medicines work theimpossibles. You could also writeto our Dr. B., right here in JOLEE’s STETHOSCOPE 911. Lookat your job, do you need a change?This, can play havoc with the mind,you know. Are you in need of newsocial activity? Do you have friends?Are your relationships satisfying? Itcould be that you just need to shakethings up a little. Try something new.

Q:Dear Campus \ Emily -Vancouver, Canada

For the last year, there have been abunch of kids (mainly girls) in myschool that have picked on me. I eat

my lunch alone most of the time. Idon’t talk much and they make funof me because I’m quiet. A lot ofafternoons they’re hanging aroundthe area I have to walk through onmy way home. They say mean stuffand stand in my way. I’m getting to hate going to school. I’m sounhappy. I try to think up ways to stay home.

A: Dear Emily. Bullying isbrutal and there is no excuse for it. The kinds of stuff they’re doingwill likely get worse with time. They may begin to get physical inthe abuse. So Emily, this is whatyou do. Always remember that‘communication’ is the single mostimportant word in the dictionary.You don’t have to suffer this alone.Have you told anyone about it, like your parents or a teacher? Youshould. It will get ‘much’ easier, assoon as you do. Please, Emily. Youcan’t let this interfere with youremotions or school. Trust me. Ifyou ‘act’ it will ‘work’. This is tooimportant and so are you!

SEE YA!

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MANAGING EDITOR’S COLUMNBy Nahidah Malik –Nairobi, Kenya

» Easter arrives and with it comesdaffodils, tulips, crocuses and thewelcoming of Spring.

The religious significanceencompassing Easter is theresurrection of Jesus Christ with celebrations varying fromculture to culture, each in theirown unique way. Fun/games/thepainting of eggs in beautiful colorsand designs – is the very symbol offertility and beginning of new life.

Learn to enjoy the differentreligions and traditions aroundyou. Open the door to moreunderstanding and love. Close the doors to negative environmentsleading to hopelessness and hate.Don’t look down on what is foreign.Examine the multi-cultural framearound you. Don’t dwell on whatyou have not achieved. Extendhands to those who have fallen…|let the beauty of Easter and Spring be the mark that takes you to new heights. «

Adolescence and PregnancyResearched and written by: Camilia Ursu – Sibiu, Romania» 'You’re pregnant' – words thatothers hear, something others haveto deal with. It could never happento you! But suddenly, it applies toyou! Frightening for a teenager,dependant on others and inschool, to process!

Society expects the young to do wellacademically, be cool with friends,deal with peer pressures, alcohol,drugs and being sexually active – all issues that are overwhelming for an adolescent. We forget tooquickly how important it is to be…responsible in all that we do! Weforget too quickly that the choiceswe make for ourselves begin towrite ‘the script’ to our lives.Communicate. Brainstorm.

TALK NOW! To your doctors,nurses, teachers, parents aboutEVERYTHING.

Be smart! Be informed! Be responsible! «

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TheBeauty of Easter

Violence InEntertainmentBy Dr. Rose A. Dyson –Toronto, ON Canada

» Will Hollywood change its Ways?

One question posed days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.In the last two decades alone,Hollywood has produced anddistributed over 270 terroristfilms. At the 2001 Oscar Awardsceremonies, much was made ofgrowing diversity within theindustry with a record number of achievement awards going to people of color. Content,however, remained a non-issue.

According to research done by Mehdi Semati at Eastern Illinois University on sex, violenceand terrorism in Hollywood’s

International Political Imagery, in the post-Cold war era, MiddleEastern terrorism has become acentral theme. Films in the 1990sbrought us a kinder, gentlermulticultural disguise, over thosein the 1980s. The audio-visualrhetoric of East-West confrontationis used as a background forcelebration, glamorization andpromotion of high-tech weaponry- still an under-discussed componentin the ‘war on terrorism’. If moviescan bind us together and make us a global community they can alsotear us apart. «

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Rose A. Dyson Ed. D. is author of ‘MIND

ABUSE – Media Violence In An Information

Age’ www.web.net/blackrosebooks and

‘North America’s Cult of Sex and Violence’:

in ‘MEDIA, SEX, VIOLENCE and DRUGS

in the GLOBAL VILLAGE’.

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When Congress enacted theControlled Substances Act of 1970,and placed marijuana on ScheduleI which is reserved for drugs thathave ‘no recognized medical use,’very little research had been doneon the potential medical benefits of marijuana. Los Angeles policewere taught that dilated pupils were a symptom of being under theinfluence of marijuana. A majorstudy at UCLA utilized studentvolunteers to puff a joint and thenhave the size of their pupils measured.The studies conclusively establishedthat fear caused dilated pupils: not marijuana. However, the studyconfirmed that marijuana reducesthe intraocular pressure related to the disease of glaucoma. Thisresulted in the federal governmentestablishing the ‘CompassionateUse Program’ to provide government-grown marijuana to glaucomapatients and those afflicted with

other serious diseases. After serving82 patients, it was discontinued in 1992, when the program wasdeluged with applications fromAIDS patients. Governmentofficials announced the programwas ‘sending the wrong message.’

The message the government wantsto send is that marijuana can haveno redeeming value. Apparently,the government believes the publicis too stupid to understand that,like narcotics and cocaine, marijuanamay benefit sick people even thoughit is abused by others. Many citizens,who have watched loved ones sufferwith AIDS or cancer treatments,question the wisdom of laws thatdeny this medication to sick anddying people when they observe,first hand, the relief that marijuanacan afford.

This reality accounts for the growingpublic support for medical use of marijuana. Public support has resulted in successful initiativemeasures in seven states to permitthe medicinal use of marijuanawith a physician’s recommendation.In California, Proposition 215which provides that seriously illpatients have a right to possess and use marijuana for medicinalpurposes, was adopted by anoverwhelming margin in 1996.When they have the approval of aphysician, they are immune fromprosecution for possessing orcultivating marijuana.

The law does not directly addressthe problem of distribution to these patients. Are they to go out to the back alleys and negotiate with illicit drug dealers to procuretheir medicine? Federal authoritiesresoundingly say “yes.” In ‘Oakland

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PROS AND EX.CONS »By Gerald F. Uelmen, Defense CounselSanta Clara, California

THE LEGAL STRUGGLES T A T E V. F E D E R A L A U T H O R I T Y

MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA

Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperative v.United States’– the U.S. SupremeCourt rejected a claim of medicalnecessity as a defense to marijuanadistribution under the FederalControlled Substances Act. Federalauthorities recently raided andclosed some of the most respectedmedical marijuana dispensaries inCalifornia, facilities being openlyoperated with full approval of local authorities.

Criminal prosecution is unlikely inmost of these cases, because federalauthorities realize California juriesare unlikely to convict. Shortlyafter Proposition 215 was enacted,federal authorities announced thatany physician who recommendedthe use of marijuana would facesuspension or revocation of hisfederal permit to prescribe drugs.Needless to say, many physiciansbecame very nervous about putting their names on such a recommendation.

A lawsuit was filed against the DEAasserting the First Amendment rightof physicians to freely discuss alltreatment alternatives with theirpatients, and in the case of ‘Conantv. Walters’ – a permanent injunctionwas issued to restrain the DEA fromthreatening California physicians.

The injunction’s validity was recentlyupheld by the United States Courtof Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Inanother case pending before the9th Circuit, the constitutionalarguments that the Court did notreach in the ‘Oakland CannabisBuyers’ Cooperative’ case, arebeing considered. These argumentsinclude the contentions that purelyintrastate cultivation and use ofmedical marijuana is beyond thereach of Congress’ authority toregulate interstate commerce, and that the Ninth and TenthAmendments protect the authorityof states to regulate the health and safety of their citizens when the regulations do not affectinterstate commerce.

The fate of the medical marijuanamovement may rest in the hands of Congress. For now, we cananticipate the same knee-jerkresponse engendered when themedical use of marijuana in theDistrict of Columbia was put onthe ballot. Congress put a rider onthe Budget Appropriation for theDistrict of Columbia to forbid anyexpenditure of funds to count theballots. A successful ACLU lawsuitreleased the election results. Themeasure passed by an 80% margin.

Members of Congress, who areobsessed with the fear that electionopponents will label them “soft on drugs,” prefer to insert theirhead in the sand in the face ofoverwhelming public support for medical use of marijuana.

Gerald F. Uelmen is the highly profiled

defense counsel that argued the O.J.

Simpson, Daniel Ellsberg and Christian

Brando trials. His acclaimed account of

the Simpson trial is entitled Lessons from

the Trial. He is the author of Drug Abuse

and the Law, widely used by lawyers and

judges. Mr. Uelman has served as lead

counsel in four cases asserting the rights

of medical patients to use marijuana

with the approval of a physician. He

is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara

University School of Law, where he

served as Dean from 1986 to 1994.

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Many citizens, who have watched loved ones suffer with AIDS or cancer treatments, question thewisdom of laws that deny this medication to sick anddying people when they observe, first hand, the reliefthat marijuana can afford.

1. Walt Disney has won more Oscars

than anyone else. He was nominated for

64, and won 26!

2. The actor/actress with the most Oscars

is Katharine Hepburn who starred in

old–time classics like The Rainmaker and

The African Queen. She won four Best

Actress Oscars.

3. The youngest ever Oscar winner is

actress Tatum O’Neal who was 10 when

she won Best Supporting Actress for

the film Paper Moon (1973).

4. In 1934, Shirley temple was awarded

an Honorary Oscar for her achievements

at the age of five.

5. During World War II, the winners

were given Oscar statues made of plaster

instead of the usual Golden ones, to

mark the war effort.

6. Denzel Washington and Halle Berry

won Best Actor/Actress in 2002 – the first

time black actors have picked up both

prizes. Legendary Sidney Poitier, picked

up the honorary Oscar for his long career

in films – being the only other black man

ever to have won a Best Actor Oscar – 35

years ago.

7. Only three films have ever won all

top five Oscars – Best Film, Actor, Actress,

Director and Writing. They are: It

Happened One Night, One Flew Over

the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Silence of

the Lambs.

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WEIRD AND WACKY FACTS »By Mohammed Malik, 12 years old

Windsor – Canada

On the Film Industry

8. Steven Spielberg is the most successful

Director, with seven of his movies in the

all time top 10 list. Spielberg won Best

Director for Schindler’s List.

9. India has the largest film output,

producing more feature length films

than any other country, with 800 movies

released annually… about twice the

output of Hollywood. These movies are

produced in 16 languages, in 3 major

centers: Mumbai, Calcutta and Madras.

10. The largest film studio complex is

Universal City in Los Angeles, California,

covering 420 acres, containing 561

buildings and 34 sound stages.

11. Bob Hope hosted the Academy

Awards a record 13 times.

12. The first television broadcast of the

Oscars took place in 1953 – on black and

white TV, telecast throughout the US and

Canada.

13. According to the MPAA (Motion

Picture Association of America), in 1996

the average Hollywood film cost $35.3

million to make and another $17.7

million to market. Disney’s “The Lion

King” cost $45 million to make and

employed a total of 800 animators.

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» I have to admit that I’m a big fan of the Academy Awards. Would thatmake me an Oscar maniac? Probably,considering I haven’t missed a showsince 1990 (that’s when they beganbroadcasting the show in Romania).Yes, I would awaken at 3:00 a.m. (my time) just to be part of thisglamorous event. With Oscar hereagain, I’m going to bring you a few ofthe unique facts about its history.

DID YOU KNOWWhen the first Academy Awardswere handed out on May 16, 1929,movies had just begun to talk.

The first Awards ceremony tookplace during a banquet held in theBlossom Room of the HollywoodRoosevelt Hotel. The attendancewas 250 and tickets were $10. Thecustom of presenting the statuettesat a banquet was discontinued after1942. Increased attendance and the

war had made banquets impractical,and the presentation ceremonieshave since been held in theaters.

The suspense, which now touchesmost of the world at Oscar time,was not always a characteristic ofthe Awards. At first, the winnerswere known prior to the Awardsbanquets. Results were given inadvance to the newspapers forpublication at 11 p.m. on the nightof the Awards. But in 1940, guestsarriving for the affair could buy the 8:45 p.m. edition of the LosAngeles Times which announcedthe winning achievements. As aresult, the sealed-envelope systemwas adopted the next year andremains in use today.

The Oscar statuette has beendesigned by Cedric Gibbons and sculpted by Los Angeles artistGeorge Stanley. Each statuette is

made from the alloy britanniumand is then plated in copper,nickel, silver, and finally in 24-karat gold. It’s manufactured byR.S. Owens and Company inChicago. It stands 13? inches talland weighs 8? pounds. The Oscardepicts a knight, holding a crusader’ssword, standing on a reel of film.The film reel features five spokes,signifying the five original branchesof the Academy (actors, directors,producers, technicians and writers).

1966 brought Oscar’s first broadcastin color. From 1971 – 1975 theAwards were carried by NBC-TV.ABC has telecast the show since 1976and is under contract through 2008.

Enjoy! I know I will. «

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R&D EDITOR AT LARGE »By Carla Dragnea

A Little Bit of Academy Awards

The first Awards ceremony took place during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

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