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On a January day in Paris, in 1895, a ceremony was enacted in the courtyard of the École Militaire, on the Champ-de-Mars, that still shocks the mind and conscience to contemplate: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish artillery officer and family man, convicted of treason days earlier in a rushed court-martial, was publicly degraded before a gawking crowd. His insignia medals were stripped from him, his sword was broken over the knee of the degrader, and he was marched around the grounds in his ruined uniform to be jeered and spat at, while piteously declaring his innocence and his love of France above cries of "Jew" and "Judas!" It is a ceremony that seems to belong to some older, medieval Europe, of public torture and autos-da-fé and Inquisitions.
Yet it took place in the immediate shadow of the monument of modernity, the Eiffel Tower, then six years old, which loomed at the north end of the Champ-de-Mars. The very improbability of such an act's happening at such a time—to an assimilated Jew who had mastered a meritocratic system and a city that was the pride and pilothouse of civic rationalism—made it a portent, the moment where Maupassant's world of ambition and pleasure met Kafka's world of inexplicable bureaucratic suffering. The Dreyfus affair was the first indication that a new epoch of progress and cosmopolitan optimism would be met by a countervailing wave of hatred that deformed the next half century of European history.
The Dreyfus affair never goes away, and is the subject of a brave new book by the novelist and lawyer Louis Begley, "Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters" (Yale; $24). Brave because Begley wants to use the occasion not for French-bashing, or for reciting the enduring history of European anti-Semitism, bleak as it is, but as a pointed warning and reminder of how fragile the standards of civilized conduct prove in moments of national panic. The Dreyfus affair matters, he believes, because we have, in the past decade, made our own Devil's Island and hundreds of new Dreyfuses—the Dreyfus affair matters because we're still in the middle of it. Begley, as he recounts the story of the Parisian fin-de-siècle legal drama, also spends many pages showing that among the prisoners in places like Guantánamo are many Dreyfuses—innocent, as he was, and, on the whole, much worse treated. He wants to arraign Americans, and particularly those who fetishize the Dreyfus case without grasping its principles: that every accused person should be able to face his accusers in a fair trial, and that national panic makes bad policy and false prisoners.
Yet a parallel can be potent without being, point by point, persuasive: Dreyfus was not the Faceless Foreigner but the Enemy Within. Far from being faceless, he was all face: the haters never tired of describing and drawing his hideousness. "His face is grey, flattened and base, showing no sign of remorse . . . a wreck from the ghetto," the journalist Léon Daudet wrote. That hideous degradation ritual is at the heart of the Dreyfus affair; it was meant to be public and demonstrative—this is what happens to faithless Jews. The degradation of the prisoners at Guantánamo was essentially private and utilitarian: talk or we'll subject you to unspeakable humiliations.
The Dreyfus affair matters not because of the parallel with our time but because it was one of the first tests of modern pluralist liberalism and its institutions—a test that those institutions somehow managed to pass and fail at the same time. In France a century ago, the system finally worked, as they used to say after Watergate. The good guys rallied around, the courts did their job, Dreyfus was vindicated and came home to his family. Yet what the system exposed as it worked was, in a way, worse than the injustice it remedied. It showed that a huge number of Europeans, in a time largely smiling and prosperous, liked engaging in raw, animal religious hatred, and only felt fully alive when they did. Hatred and bigotry were not a vestige of the superstitious past but a living fire—just what comes, and burns, naturally.
The typical modern media melodrama involves the courtroom: from Scopes to O.J., the dramatic proscenium of a trial gives structure to the spectacle of modern life. The Dreyfus affair, in some ways the first of those dramas, held France spellbound in part because it included not one but at least six trials; to keep track of them—the trials and courts-martial of Dreyfus defenders and accusers, as well as his own—is exhausting. Just last year, though, George R. Whyte published in paperback his remarkably complete documentary compendium, "The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History" (Palgrave-Macmillan; $37); the best extended narrative in English is still Michael Burns's account in "Dreyfus: A Family Affair," published back in 1991.
Alfred Dreyfus came from Alsace, which was part of his luck and then part of his tragedy. In 1870, the armies of Prussia and Germany invaded France and routed the government of Napoleon III. As spoils of war, the Prussians took most of Alsace and Lorraine, the northeastern provinces; the figure of Strasbourg in the Place de la Concorde was draped in black (and remained that way until after the First World War). This meant that the Jews of Alsace were both frustrated foreigners and beloved native sons. Even though Alsace and Lorraine were only dubiously "French" in the first place, their loss drove Frenchmen mad.
Above all, many Frenchmen thought that France had lost the war because it had turned away from the faith. For the Paris of Dreyfus's time was really a city of two towers—across the city from the Eiffel Tower, the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur, with its monumental bell tower, had been slowly rising since the eighteen-seventies, as a sort of counter-monument, done in a gargantuan Romanesque manner then seen as the true mystical style of Franco-Catholicism. It was dedicated explicitly to the expiation of the sins of 1870 and the redemption of France by a restored Catholic Church. Apollinaire used the two towers—one the shepherd of modern life, the other the fountain, the bleeding heart of the past—to structure his vision of the city in his great poem on Paris, "Zone."
A saner response to the war had been to reform and democratize the French Army, by making its officer ranks meritocratic and national rather than aristocratic and narrow. Dreyfus, as a Jewish son of Alsace, took advantage of these reformist impulses, and came to Paris to become an artillery officer.* He did not fit the model of the traditional duelling and debauching officer, all scars and debts, but represented a new model, of the officer as bourgeois family man. He eventually settled with his wife and two children in a grand apartment on the Avenue du Trocadéro.
It was in that city of two towers, one finished and one rising, that, in the fall of 1894, Dreyfus became the accidental victim of a stupid plot, which was not, in its origins, anti-Semitic. The French Section de Statistique—the Army's intelligence service—had an agent within the German Embassy: a cleaning woman who every night emptied the wastebaskets of the military attaché, Lieutenant Colonel Maximilien von Schwarzkoppen, and brought the torn-up papers to her government. From the scraps, the spies reassembled a shocking memorandum, the bordereau, in which a French officer offered to sell military secrets. The nature of the secrets to be sold seemed to point to an artillery officer, and suspicion fell on Dreyfus, not least because he made regular visits to his family in Mulhouse, then still in German hands. With the normal prejudice of the secret police in favor of their own suspicions, the Statistique had Dreyfus arrested. As always, pseudo-science came to the aid of paranoia: the Statistique called on a "graphologist" for an opinion, and he testified that the lack of resemblance between Dreyfus's writing and that of the bordereau was proof of a "self-forgery," and prepared a fantastically detailed diagram to demonstrate that this was so.
The bordereau had actually been written by another officer, Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy—one of those subjects in the history of espionage who are so obviously guilty that only the geniuses of counter-intelligence could look past them. Like Aldrich Ames and Guy Burgess, Esterhazy had done everything short of wearing a nametag on his shirtfront reading "Spy." Staggered by gambling debts, he was the debauched son of an illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate claimant to the Hungarian royal line, and had written to a mistress at length about his hatred of the French Army. Just as no one in the C.I.A. asked why Ames had the money for a sports car, no one in the Statistique seemed inclined to wonder if a man notorious throughout the Army for being a drunk in perpetual debt might be a likelier candidate to have sold secrets than a Jewish family man.
Then black comedy was piled on stupidity. It turned out that Schwarzkoppen, the German military attaché, had begun an erotic affair with Major Alessandro Panizzardi, the Italian military attaché—it was not called the gay nineties for nothing—and that they wrote to each other in an allusive and sinister-sounding private code. One of their letters, stolen from a second source, included a reference to someone whom Schwarzkoppen called "this scoundrel of a D.," and who had offered "plans of Nice"—though the whole thing may have been a bantering reference to another lover. (The letter ends, to give a taste of the whole, "Don't exhaust yourself with too much buggery.")
Despite its obviously louche tone, this letter was submitted to the judges in a "secret dossier," which Dreyfus and his lawyers were not allowed to know about, let alone see. (One of the smaller ironies of the affair is that it involves the collision of two subcultures, ambiguous Jewish identity and the obliquities of gay "coding," that did so much to make the modernist sensibility.) But on that evidence—a handwriting identification admitted to be based on an absence of resemblance, and a single initial in a playful lover's note—Dreyfus was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
If anti-Semitism didn't start the Dreyfus affair, it fuelled it. The accusation was first kept secret, but as soon as it was made public the secrecy itself became an occasion for assault: the Army was protecting a traitor Jew. First, loudest, and nastiest among the explicitly anti-Semitic enemies of Dreyfus was Édouard Drumont, whose book "Jewish France" had already, in the eighteen-eighties, been a huge success. Drumont's book was above all an anti-immigrant manifesto. He was responding to the waves of Jewish immigrants from Germany and Eastern Europe who had arrived in France during the previous twenty or so years, bringing with them, he argued, values and a faith alien to Christian France. In a tone familiar from today's anti-Muslim polemics, and using the usual toxic cocktail of absurdly inflated numbers, hysterical overstatement, and guilt by association (many anarchists were Jews), Drumont managed to convince readers that France's real crisis was the decline of Christianity. This had happened under the demoralizing pressure of modern art and culture, which was, of course, Jewish culture: the culture of bankers and speculators and atheists and decadent artists. It seemed perfectly natural—a heartbreaking irony, in retrospect—to suspect that Jews would sell out France to their spiritual home in Germany.
Drumont's hatred was of a somewhat new kind: where for Voltaire the Jews had been evil as a relic of antiquity, for Drumont they were evil as a herald of modernity. Before, the Jews' refusal to change was a sign of their iniquity; now their appetite for change was the sign. The more eagerly a Jew attempted to escape from Judaism, the more Jewish he revealed himself to be—a snaky shape-shifter with no allegiances to anything except clan. The Catholic Church, in turn, seized on Drumont's ideology, and a virulent anti-Semitism became, especially in the pages of the Catholic newspaper La Croix, the new tonic note of even respectable French Catholicism. This coalition of hatred of immigrants and Catholic reaction did not put Dreyfus in a cage. But it helped keep him there.
It's hard to remain dry-eyed when reading about Dreyfus's next five years. Overnight the most despised man in the country he worshipped, he was torn from his wife and children and sent to rot on a tiny, desolate island in the Atlantic, in a prison altered to prevent him from ever seeing the ocean that surrounded him. (It must also be said, with Begley, that his treatment was by modern American standards benevolent. Convicted of the worst crime imaginable, selling out France to the Germans, he was still given almost all the books he wanted to read from and all the paper he needed to write on, and he used both.) Because of his always cold and correct demeanor, and in part because the regime of silence that was imposed on him at Devil's Island left him for the rest of his life with a rasping voice, the idea has been spread that Dreyfus was an essentially mediocre, if gallant, man. The image is far from the truth; awkward and uncharismatic he may have been, but Dreyfus was what we now call deep, a serious and cultivated soul. In captivity, shackled to his bed at night, he saved his sanity by reading: he read Tolstoy, Nietzsche, the French classics, and made intelligent notes on them. More than anything, he read Shakespeare. He worked his way through all the great tragedies—eventually and laboriously teaching himself to read them in the original—and found in those stories a sense of life and a language adequate to his own condition. He copied out Othello's lines on honor, and sent them to his wife, Lucie.
He was, as far as he knew, utterly alone and friendless. In truth, he had one supreme ally at home—his brother Mathieu, who had stayed in the family textile business, and was Alfred's main support. Mathieu worked brilliantly and tirelessly for his martyred brother. Pretty much everyone in authority had an uneasy sense that Dreyfus had been railroaded, and many who had no particular liking for Jews still felt that anti-Semitism was something worse than false; they thought it was vulgar. Early on, Mathieu made a key ally of Auguste Scheurer-Kestner, the vice-president of the French Senate, who strongly intimated that he knew that Mathieu's brother was innocent but could not say why. (The reason for his confidence came out later: in an incident that one would think possible only in the Internet age, one of Esterhazy's stockbrokers had seen the bordereau reproduced in a newspaper, and at once recognized the handwriting of his ne'er-do-well client.)
Mathieu displayed a kind of genius in seeing that the case for justice was more persuasive than the case for vengeance—that it was necessary to take the position that an injustice had been done by error, rather than that an evil had been done on purpose. The barrier to his brother's vindication, he grasped, was less anti-Semitism than the perceived assault on the honor of the Army.
For beneath the affair was a great historical transformation. Before the eighteen-seventies, European armies were understood to be made up of desperate men who couldn't find a better job and stupid officers who couldn't inherit a better place. Though a useful tool of empire, the army was hardly revered as an institution. But, with the late-century growth of the "open" and then of the mass-conscription army, the European army became something more than an instrument: it became the spine of honor, the sword and shield of the nation. It would not do to question its integrity, to suppose that the army was a human institution made up of good men and bad, and more inclined than most, through the habit of blind obedience and the nature of its mission, to do the wrong thing unless closely watched. Many on the anti-Dreyfusard side were prepared to admit, sotto voce, that the case against Dreyfus was not very strong. But, given that Germany posed an existential threat to France, an attack on the French Army was an attack on the nation's future. The same forces of reform that had opened the Army to Dreyfus and raised it to a national sacre were now conspiring to keep him locked up. That was the heart of the affair, and of Mathieu's dilemma; he had to find a way to liberate his brother without challenging the honor of the Army—which was, despite it all, still as sacred to his brother as to everyone else.
The unmaking of the Dreyfus case is a very long story—so complex, and taking place at such a snail's pace and in such wayward directions, that almost no one has ever been able to relate it simply. Essentially what happened is that the evidence of Dreyfus's innocence that Mathieu unearthed became too overwhelming to deny, and progressive politicians came into power who were ready to act on that evidence. There were nearly as many reversals as advances. A lieutenant colonel, Georges Picquart, was put in charge of the Statistique, and soon realized, thanks to an intercepted telegram, that Esterhazy was the real culprit. When he announced this in a report, he was promptly cashiered and transferred to the fringes of empire by panicked superiors, and then imprisoned on trumped-up charges of revealing other secrets. (Picquart is one of the truly admirable figures in the story—anti-Semitic by inclination and background, he was a friend of Mahler, and, above all, a dutiful officer, who had followed the facts, despite the consequences.) Meanwhile, another member of the Statistique, Joseph Henry, began to forge, crudely, new documents that pointed to Dreyfus—though it's unclear whether he did this in conspiracy with Esterhazy or out of a conviction that Dreyfus was guilty and a feeling that it did no harm to put a thumb on the scale of justice.
It was then, too, around 1898, that the affair became the Affaire, the preoccupation of all educated France. It suddenly took in not just the Army and the Jews but the central question of modern French history: nation or republic? Was one's loyalty to be given to the nation as a repository of a heritage, mystical and ethnic in nature, or to a set of abstract ideals achieved by reason and available to all? These arguments split the upper and the educated classes—dividing even the Impressionists, the anti-Dreyfusards Degas and Renoir drawing daggers with Pissarro and Monet.
Stirred into movement by Mathieu, the entire liberal establishment, frightened and feeble at first, began to enlist in the cause; the great left-wing politician Jean Jaurès joined, then the publisher and future Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, then the novelist Émile Zola—none of them Jewish, but with a certain self-interest in seeing the right done down, and, above all, with a passion for republicanism and a sense that it could not survive this parody of justice. They insisted that they were asking France to be faithful to its own declared rules. Esterhazy, in a typically reckless though well-calculated move, demanded a court-martial, which, held in secret, ended, predictably, with his acquittal.
It was this trial, not Dreyfus's, that caused Zola, the morning after, to publish "J'Accuse," in a daily newspaper that Clemenceau ran—detailing all the evidence of Dreyfus's innocence and (breaking, at last, with the playbook) arraigning the Army for deliberately covering it up. Zola was tried for criminal libel, and at his trial Clemenceau eloquently addressed what Mathieu had always seen was the problem: "Above all beware of this line of the reasoning . . . : 'It is possible that Dreyfus was convicted illegally, but it was justly done; that is enough.' . . . It is a serious error. . . . See to it that the supremacy of the law is undisputed, and through the law rid our hearts of this respect for reasons of state that is absurd in a democracy." (Zola was convicted, and fled the country, until the government fell and a pardon arrived.)
At last, the appeals worked their way to the top of the French courts, and a second Dreyfus court-martial was ordered. Dreyfus was snatched from his parched exile and brought home. Ignorant through his long isolation that anyone outside of his immediate family was even aware of his martyrdom, he sat down in his prison cell at Rennes, where the new court-martial was to take place, and read the transcripts of the secondary trials, and discovered that men of accomplishment had risked their welfare for his vindication. He wrote later, "A deep feeling of gratitude and admiration arose in my heart for all the courageous men, scholars and workers, great or humble, who had thrown themselves valiantly into the struggle for the triumph of justice and truth, to uphold principles which are the legacy of humanity."
The fix was still in, of course, and, despite the overwhelming evidence, Dreyfus was convicted again—but with a reference to "extenuating circumstances." This was what psychiatrists used to call "a cry for help." It meant that though the Army couldn't be seen to overturn its own verdict, it knew that it was wrong. The newly installed, liberal government immediately offered Dreyfus an amnesty, which would see him freed, albeit not yet reinstated in the Army, on the tacit condition that he not protest too hard any longer about his innocence.
Understandably, the activists who had risked their reputations on Dreyfus's vindication argued against assenting to an amnesty, and for continuing to appeal the case, despite the risk of further imprisonment. Poor Alfred was uncertain about the right way to act. It was left to the clearheaded Mathieu to convince them all that the immediate amnesty was as close to an admission of wrongdoing as you could hope to get. (Meanwhile, the right-wing loonies claimed that "extenuating circumstances" was really a reference to an "annotated memorandum"—the Obama birth certificate of the day—that contained notes in the Kaiser's handwriting gleefully savoring his Jew collaborator, a memorandum that couldn't be shown in open court out of fear that it could start another war.) Behind all this, the hopes for the upcoming Paris Exposition of 1900 were probably central to the government's panic. The Zola trial had awakened consciences—and a certain amount of French-bashing—in England and America. The new Exposition put the prestige of France, and income for Paris, on the line, and continued persecution of Dreyfus might have kept some foreigners away.
Dreyfus was lionized by the left, and went home to the grand apartment. Bit by bit, the entire web of injustice was unwoven: subsequent trials not only reinstated him in the Army but gave him (and Picquart) promotions and, eventually, the Légion d'Honneur, the highest decoration in France. In 1905, the Roman Catholic Church was more or less disestablished in France, and equality among Protestants, Catholics, and even Jews imposed, largely because of the grotesque role that the Church and La Croix had played in the persecution of Dreyfus. When the First World War broke out, Dreyfus went on to serve as an artillery colonel in Paris and at Verdun. He died in 1935, a man honored and respected both as a soldier for France and as a martyr for freedom.
In this sense, what's oddest about the Dreyfus affair is its unequivocally happy ending. A good man was the victim of a horrible injustice, decent people rallied to his side, the bad guys responsible for it were exposed, the good guy got to come home and was honored by the same people in the same place where he had been dishonored. If the beginning of the Dreyfus story is Maupassant, and the middle Kafka, the end is Victor Hugo, a victory of the romantic, progressive imagination: wrongs can be righted; in the long run things work out for the best. Dreyfus's restoration to bourgeois comfort was so complete that a famous Paris story has him saying placidly at a dinner party, when told about a rumored adulterous affair in his circle, "Well, what I always say is: where there's smoke, there's fire."
The trouble was that, like most happy endings, the happy ending was not the end. The good guys won in a way that only made the bad guys worse. As with Watergate, the immediate outcome of the affair gave a misleading impression of unanimity; in truth, while the good guys thought the other guys had absorbed it as a lesson, they had merely resented it as a defeat. Though Dreyfus won his place back, in 1908 he was the victim of an assassination attempt by a follower of Charles Maurras, who had succeeded Édouard Drumont as the leading authoritarian anti-Semite in France. In any modernized country, the backward-looking party will always tend toward resentment and grievance. The key is to keep the conservatives feeling that they are an alternative party of modernity. (This was Disraeli's great achievement, as it was, much later, de Gaulle's.) When the conservative party comes to see itself as unfairly marginalized, it becomes a party of pure reaction, which is what happened to the French right after Dreyfus. Instead of purging the anti-Semites, people on the right decided to rally behind them. They came to hate the idea of the Republic itself. When Maurras was sentenced for collaboration after the Second World War, he cried, "It's the revenge of Dreyfus!" It wasn't true. But Vichy had been four long years of the revenge of Drumont.
Three "readings" of the affair, all by Jews, have long contested its meaning; Begley raises all three. The first is Theodore Herzl's, which gave birth to modern Zionism. Herzl had been present at the Dreyfus degradation on that January day, as a journalist for a Viennese paper, and if one moment engraved his sense that Jews could never find a safe home in Europe this was it: "It has been established that justice could be refused to a Jew for the sole reason that he was a Jew." Dreyfus, the perfect case of attempted assimilation, "signifies a strategic position which . . . is already lost." This insight, repeated and made programmatic in the Zionist project, was seemingly vindicated by what happened during the Second World War, when the members of the Dreyfus family, who had fought for France so often and so patriotically, were, like all French Jews, forced into hiding; Alfred's favorite granddaughter, Madeline, a Resistance fighter, was deported by the Vichy state and died at Auschwitz, age twenty-five.
Herzl's reading was that the affair marked the end of a credible idea of assimilation; Marcel Proust's was that it marked the end of a credible idea of aristocracy. The Dreyfus affair acts as a kind of earthquake in "Remembrance of Things Past," destroying Proust's belief in a natural merger of the educated middles, mostly Jewish, and the aristocratic heights. Proust's ideal was the aesthete's version of the progressive dream, Manet's version of Mill: the bourgeois would be encircled by the wise and the witty and the wellborn, and their petty prejudices would fall. This happy merger of intellect and grace, symbolized in Proust by the figure of Swann, the Jewish flâneur with a love for Vermeer, is, as Proust says, "retarded" by the affair. It largely accounts for the difference in tone between the melancholy but high-hearted world of the early chapters in Proust's series, where Swann is free to roam between the Faubourg Saint-Honoré and the demimonde while still being a trusted Jew among the Boulevard Jews like Proust's family, and the straitened and suspicious social circumstances in the last books. Proust had always expected his aristocrats to think stupidly; he just didn't expect so many to behave so shabbily.
Yet these sad readings are not the only plausible ones. Léon Blum, the Socialist politician who began his public career during the affair and, in 1936, became the Prime Minister of France, insisted that the Dreyfus affair was the moment that truly established the emancipation of the Jews, and their right to play a full role as citizens—it was what allowed a Jew like him to become Prime Minister. (The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, born Jewish in Lithuania, liked to quote his father: "A country that tears itself apart to defend the honor of a small Jewish captain is somewhere worth going.") The real meaning of the affair, for the French left, lay in its vindication of the rights of man and of an ideal of cosmopolitan citizenship, open to all. Certainly, France's republican governments have been far more inclined to entrust Jews with power than any other modern state. After Blum, there was Mendès-France, the most admired Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic, and today, in the Fifth Republic, the President, his foreign minister, and his national-security adviser are all, by Vichy's definition and most others, Jews. In this view, the persistence of anti-Semitism is not an argument against cosmopolitan citizenship; it is an argument against the persistence of anti-Semitism.
Begley, for his part, asks why Dreyfus wanted to go back into the Army that had betrayed him. As well ask why Rosa Parks didn't just stop riding buses. The Dreyfus family had suffered as Jews and understood that they suffered as Jews; they still lived out their lives as French men and women, and had no ambition except to continue to live their lives as French men and women. How can French Jews accept French law and lore, and not be haunted by the Drancy internment camp? It is a condition of being modern that our double and triple identities look weird from the outside but are the only kinds that feel authentic from the inside. The passionately nationalist Québécois who listens exclusively to Metallica and AC/DC; the Muslim fundamentalist with the satellite dish—from outside, we wonder how they reconcile the contradictions. But they don't have to reconcile the contradictions in order to cope with reality. The contradictions are themselves the form that a reconciliation with reality takes.
Of all the readings of the Dreyfus case, the sanest still seems to be the reading of the French socialists and liberals, almost none of them Jewish, who first took it up passionately: an innocent man had been railroaded by villains, who took advantage of ethnic prejudice in a Catholic country. It was done in defiance of the plain rules and traditions and procedures of the country's own military order and judicial system, and had to be remedied by them. After some time, though with less clarity than one would have liked, and with more fudge around the edges than was ideal, this was done. The lesson to be learned was the lesson that Clemenceau had tried to teach the jury at Zola's trial. The urge to protect the nation from its enemies by going around the corner to get them is natural, but what you get is usually not the enemies, and, going around the corner, you bump into something worse. Breaking the law to defend the nation ends up breaking the nation. Sometimes long stories have short morals. ♦
*Correction, December 1, 2009: Dreyfus did not attend the French military academy, as originally stated.


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Opinion: Fight, Irish
Main Street Columnist William McGurn has a plan for the national championship game. Photos: Getty Images
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Leon "Slim" Weston, the iconic cowboy lifty who greeted skiers at Grand Targhee for 45 winters, died last night after a battle with cancer. He was 72 years old.
Weston's smile, cowboy hat and long, lean frame were a fixture at Targhee since the resort's inception in 1969. He appeared in Warren Miller films and a host of ski magazines, gaining as much of a reputation as the resort's fresh powder. A snowboarder, he was known to give out hugs and back rubs in the lift lines.
"He is the spirit of Grand Targhee and is greatly missed," resort spokesman Ken Rider said. "A bunch of heavy hearts over here today."
Weston was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2011 and had been fighting an ongoing battle. Still, he worked three days at the resort last week.
"Whatever he wanted to work, we'd let him work," Rider said.
Weston was a farmer and rancher who lived outside Driggs. He got his nickname after riding up on his horse at the beginning of a Miller ski movie, and the filmmaker called him "Ol' Slim."
Rider said the resort is deferring to Weston's family on plans for a memorial service. More information will be posted as soon as it is available.
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After winning four international gold medals last month, fast-rising Canadian gymnast Ellie Black is blazing toward a spot on her country's team for the Olympic Games in London this summer.
Black won vault and balance beam at the II Artistic Gymnastics Meeting held April 15 in São Bernardo, Brazil. Two weeks later she won vault and floor exercise at the FIG Challenger Cup in Osijek, Croatia. She is now preparing for the Canadian championships that will take place May 22-26 in Regina, and ultimately the London Games.
The 16-year-old Black trains at Halifax Alta Gymnastics Club, where she is coached by Keiji Yamanaka and two-time Olympian David Kikuchi. Kikuchi's wife, 2000 Olympian Crystal Gilmore Kikuchi, choreographed Black's floor exercise routine.
In this IG Online interview, Black reflects on her recent successes and outlines the meticulous steps she is making to earn an Olympic berth.
IG: You have really come on strong this spring, and unlike some of your teammates, you have not had a lot of international experience prior to the Olympic year. What has enabled you to hit the international scene so solidly, and avoid nervousness that affects many newcomers' performances?
EB: I have been looking forward to competing internationally this season, and I am grateful for the opportunities. I try to go into the competition positive, and go out and show what I have been practicing. Focusing on my own performance is very important, as well as supporting my teammates. I have really appreciated the support and welcome I have received from all of Team Canada at recent international meets. This has really helped me make the adjustment and feel confident.
IG: Your floor is unusual in that you have unique tumbling passes, as well as unique choreography. What do you feel is the key to being able to perform such a "complete" floor routine?
EB: This is a new routine for me this year, choreographed by Crystal Kikuchi, so I feel like I am still working on it. The tumbling is also new, so I'm glad that it looks complete!
IG: What is the process of creating the choreography for your floor routine? How do you and Crystal choose the music and the movements?
EB: Crystal's been a great help and inspiration to my gymnastics. It was great choreographing the routine with her because we have very similar styles. A lot of the dance and movements were from previous routines of Crystal's with a little change to make it fit the routine. We tried to choose music that was energetic and powerful but not overdoing it, and that would match my tumbling.
IG: Who coaches you on which events?
EB: My longtime coach is Keiji Yamanaka, who has coached me since I started competitive gymnastics. He coaches me on all four events. David Kikuchi is my other coach, and he started coaching me within the last few years. He helps coach me on all events and often is the coach who travels with me. My coaches, club and province are really behind me, and that helps a lot.
IG: The competition for spots on the Olympic team is going to be tough. Where do you see yourself fitting into the team? In which ways do you think you can help the team the most?
EB: I think I have a lot to offer the Canadian team, especially on vault, which has always been my strongest event. I have also worked to increase my difficulty and execution on beam and floor. In addition to my routines on these three events, I think my strong personality could also support the team. I am determined, hard working, and competitive, but also sociable and a good teammate.
IG: Between now and the Canadian trials, what is your strategy for not only maintaining the high standard you have set internationally, but assuring that the Canadian team knows you can deliver what they need in London?
EB: My plan is to continue all the aspects of my training that have brought me success this far. The positive results from recent competitions are a strong motivator to keep working hard and improve further. I also intend to use what I have learned at the international meets that I've attended to help me. Hopefully this will prepare me to have a strong performance at Nationals, which is an important competition for the team selection.
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Alistair Felton (left) and Andy Nguyen (right) have combined
to win 25 singles and 15 doubles matches this season.
Photo courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications.
The Particulars:
Harvard returns to its home soil to play a pair of non-conference matches. The Crimson will take on Boston College, Feb. 26, and St. John's, Feb. 27.
About Harvard:
The Crimson enters today's match with an overall record of 4-4. Harvard is led by freshman Andy Nguyen with 14 singles wins. Nguyen has also partnered with sophomore Alistair Felton to win 15 doubles matches this season.
About Boston College:
The Eagles are 3-5 entering the match. Senior Thomas Nolan and junior Erik Kreutzer are ranked No. 21 in the ITA national doubles poll while sophomore Akash Muppidi is No. 76 in the singles rankings.
About St. John's:
The Red Storm comes into the contest with a 2-3 record after beginning the season with wins over Bucknell and Fairleigh Dickinson. Stefan Bojic leads the team with four wins at the top singles spot while Martin Kosut and Derek Wallensteen have teamed up to post four victories at the No. 3 doubles slot.
Last Time Out:
Harvard dropped a 4-3 decision to Purdue and a 6-1 decision to No. 50 Indiana. Nguyen picked up two singles wins over the weekend while junior Alexei Chijoff-Evans earned a victory against Purdue.
10-Win Club:
Three players have amassed 10 singles wins this season. Nguyen leads with 14 while Felton has posted 11. Chijoff-Evans recorded his 10th win of the year, earning a victory at the top spot against Purdue. Felton and Nguyen have also partnered to win 15 doubles matches.
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The Crimson will host Radford, Mar. 11, after a two-week break.


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Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What if I miss a dose?
This does not apply. This medicine should only be taken immediately before going to sleep. Do not take double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?
barbiturate medicines for inducing sleep or treating seizures
certain medicines for allergies, like azatadine, clemastine, diphenhydramine
certain medicines for depression, anxiety, or other emotional or psychiatric problems
certain medicines for pain
medicines for fungal infections like ketoconazole, fluconazole, or itraconazole
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This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. Keep a regular sleep schedule by going to bed at about the same time each night. Avoid caffeine-containing drinks in the evening hours. When sleep medicines are used every night for more than a few weeks, they may stop working. Talk to your doctor if you still have trouble sleeping.
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Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible:
allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue
breathing problems
changes in vision
depression, suicidal thoughts
feeling faint or lightheaded
hostility, restlessness, excitability
slurred speech
staggering, tremors
unusual activities while asleep like driving, eating, making phone calls
unusually weak or tired
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
difficulty with coordination
loss of memory
stomach upset
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Where should I keep my medicine?
Keep out of the reach of children. This medicine can be abused. Keep your medicine in a safe place to protect it from theft. Do not share this medicine with anyone. Selling or giving away this medicine is dangerous and against the law.
Store at room temperature between 20 and 25 degrees C (68 and 77 degrees F). Protect from light. Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
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The course provides basic tools for modeling, design, and stability analysis of nonlinear systems that arise in a wide range of engineering and scientific applications including robotics, autonomous vehicles, mechanical and aerospace systems, nonlinear oscillators, chaotic systems, population genetics, learning systems, and networked complex systems. There are fundamental differences between the behavior of linear and nonlinear systems. Lyapunov functions are powerful tools in dealing with design and stability analysis of nonlinear systems. After addressing the basic differences between linear and nonlinear systems, the course will primarily focus on normal forms of nonlinear systems and Lyapunov-based control design methods for a variety of applications with an emphasis on robotics, mechanical control systems, and particle systems in potential fields.


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Over the centuries millions of Scots have left their homeland and spread Scottish names across the globe, but where do these names originate?
Scotland has a long and rich history dating back thousands of years.
Yet, the history of Scottish surnames, is by comparison, a much more recent affair.
Until the 12th century most Scots did not have surnames. It was not until King David I's decision to give large amounts of Scottish land to Norman nobles in return for their support of the Crown that the Norman tradition of surnames came into fashion.
Choosing a surname was a haphazard affair. You could be the son of somebody (Robertson, Davidson, Johnston) or adopt the Gaelic variation of 'Mac' rather than 'son' (MacDonald, MacLeod, MacKenzie).
You could take the surname from the nobles who owned the land you worked on, or from the dominant chieftain in your area.
Some chose to be named after their occupation (Shearer, Smith, Taylor) or perhaps after a colour (Brown, Black, Gray). For example Reid, the Scots word for 'red' is a common Scottish surname which is indicative of Scotland having a higher-than-normal percentage of redheads.
In the Highlands and Borders of Scotland, the clan system established dominant families with tartans, mottoes, gatherings and weddings, giving centuries of business to grateful kilt makers.
Finally, Scotland has a long tradition of place names becoming first names or surnames (Murray, Angus Hamilton).
By investigating the origins of some of Scotland's better known names using historical literature we are able to map where many of Scottish surnames originate.
The map includes a Highland boundary line which shows us how the Gaelic names of the north differentiated from the rest of the country.
However the list of names compiled here are by no means an exhaustive list of all names of Scottish origin but rather some of the more common ones.
Secondly it is worth noting that the traditional Scottish clan system was disintegrating - even in its Highland heartland - by the mid to late 1700s.
If you have ancestors who had a recognisable clan name by the 1800s this does not necessarily mean that they themselves lived in 'clan territories'.
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Canadian actor August Schellenberg, who starred in the "Free Willy" films, has died at his Dallas home after a fight with lung cancer. He was 77.
The actor's agent, Jamie Levitt, says Schellenberg died Thursday surrounded by his family.
Schellenberg appeared in numerous television roles and was in all three "Free Willy" movies. In 2007, he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role as Chief Sitting Bull in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
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Most young children enjoy pretend play and love to imitate action heroes. But many teachers, parents and child care workers say the influence of children's superhero TV shows or movies, can result in havoc when little fans get together.
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Images of men and women in the media are often based on stereotypical roles of males and females in our society. Because stereotyping can affect how children feel about themselves and how they relate to others, it's important that they learn to recognize and understand gender stereotypes in different media.
Racial stereotypes abound on television, and children's programming is no exception. The turban-wearing bad guy, the brainy Asian, and the Black basketball whiz are just a few of the stereotypes reinforced in children's cartoons, films and TV shows. Spotting these stereotypes is often difficult for children; to them, the tomahawk-wielding Indian or the Asian karate expert is a familiar, easily-understood and often funny character. So how do you help children understand these images for what they are – oversimplified, generalizations?
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Confiança Veleiro Soap - 125g
An historical magnificent soap!
With an invigorating and masculine perfume, made with marine notes, the Confiança Veleiro soap is produced with 100% vegetable base and enriched with coconut extract.
Ideal for the daily use for men's skin care.
Dimensions: 9cm x 6cm x 3cm
Weight: 1 x 125g
Made in Portugal.
Confiança - A century's Trust :
Saboaria e Perfumaria Confiança Sa was founded in Braga, in northern Portugal, on 12th October 1894, by Almeida Silva and Santos Pereira.
Initially specialized in Offenbach laundry soap manufacturing, there was a rapid association to the products of Confiança. This fact have permited to achieve an enviable reputation. The major part of the sales were mostly in Portugal and the former Portuguese colonies.
In 1919, the product range manufactured and comercialized by Confiança was enlarged to perfumed soaps, fine soaps, transparent soaps, rice-powder, eau de cologne, medicinal soaps, extra-fine extracts and oils coming from former Portuguese colonies.
In 1928 there were about 150 labels of soaps, rice-powder, creams, tooth pastes, shaving sticks, eau de cologne, lotions and essences manufactured by Confiança.
In the 80's, Confiança starts to developpe new cosmetics, adjusting formulas and offering new ones, specially in bath gel and perfumed shampoos, as an answer to new ways that began to impose and the constant requests os new products coming from its clients.
In final 2005, facing an enfeebled financial situation, the company was bought by a portuguese capital risk funds company. With the reorganization and investment with urgent actions, it was already possible to turn concrete the ISO 9001:2000 certification, becoming that way the only company in this area with recognized manufacturing and products methods.
The appositive one in the improvement of the existing products, in terms of packing and of offers, as well as the development of new, is a priority to Confiança, respecting always the traditional origins and methods, passed between generations. The Art Nouveau and Art Déco artistic influences that were proper from 20's, are still evident in classical products of Confiança. The combination of shape, the characteristic of the soap and wrapping is an art in Confiança, passed through generations. Thus, all its essence is conserved.
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Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 17 designs enviados por 11 designers freelancers.
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Login to the member area with username/pasword: tester/tester Its just dummy content at this point, but we will need a few tables made and the content will show you what needs to be there.
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Junior co-captain Hayley Levitt has been part of a strong saber squad for the Crimson this season (Harvard Athletic Communications).
The Particulars
The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams get back to action Sunday after a two-week hiatus as they head across town to Cambridge neighbor MIT for the Eric Sollee Invitational along with Duke, Hunter, NYU, Penn, Penn State and Yeshiva.
Last Time Out
The No. 2-ranked Harvard men's fencing team went 3-2 Jan. 23, defeating No. 5 Ohio State, No. 8 Columbia and host No. 3 St. John's at the St. John's Super Cup. It was the Harvard saber squad that led the Crimson, losing only one match during the team's dual against St. John's while defeating everyone else. Junior co-captain Valentin Staller, freshman Eric Arzoian, and sophomores Thomas Kolasa and Michael Tom were the contributors in the group.
The No. 3 Harvard women's fencing team opened the 2011 portion of its schedule Jan. 23 by topping defending national champion Penn State for the second time this season and beat host St. John's at the St. John's Super Cup. The foil team went a perfect 15-0 Sunday to lead the Crimson, led by freshman Alexandra Kiefer, who earned a win over 2008 Olympian and two-time national champion Doris Willette from Penn State. Shelby McCloud and Katherine Chou also contributed to the undefeated day for the foil athletes.
Staller Named 'Primetime Performer'
Junior co-captain Valentin Staller was named a Primetime Performer by CollegeFencing360.com for the week of Jan. 17-23. Staller went 12-3 at the St. John's Invitational with a sweep against St. John's that included wins over fellow All-Americans Daryl Homer (5-2; Homer was '10 NCAA champ; '09 runner-up), Alejandro Rojas (5-4; 11th at '09 NCAAs) and Sean Buckley (5-3; 8th in '10). Staller outscored his 15 opponents 67-22, allowing only 1.5 touches per bout.
About Harvard
The Crimson is one of four schools with its men's and women's teams both ranked in the top five. Notre Dame tops both gender polls at No. 1, defending national champion Penn State's men are ranked No. 4 and women No. 2, and the St. John's men's and women's teams come in at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.
The Rest of the Field
Both the Blue Devils' squads pulled out wins over top-10 teams last weekend at the Penn State Duals. The men's epees were unbeatable against defending national champion Penn State, working over the Nittany Lions for a perfect 9-0 mark. That shutout was the team-leading third of the season for the epees, which are 8-2 and have outscored their opponents, 73-17.
The women took down No. 8 Penn, 16-11. Led by 2009 NCAA Saber Champion Becca Ward and 2010 All-America epee Emily D'Agostino, who are both 28-2 on the year, the Blue Devil women are on pace to best the program-record 17-9 record they posted in 2010.
Hunter College
The Hawks have struggled this season, holding a combined record of 1-11. The men are 0-7 on the year, with their most recent loss coming at home against Army, 16-11. The Hunter College women's (1-4) lone win came against Army, 19-8.
The seventh-ranked Penn men's team is 10-1 on the season after finishing last weekend with a 4-1 record at the Penn State Invitational. Penn's lone loss on the day was to two-time defending national champion Penn State. At the Eric Sollee Invitational last year, Penn went 4-0 with victories over Boston College, Brandeis, MIT and NYU.
The No. 7 women are 6-4 this year after going 2-3 at the Penn State Invitational last weekend. Penn lost its first three matches on the day, but rebounded with a pair on convincing victories over Drew and North Carolina.
Up Next
The Crimson will head to the Ivy League Championships, Feb. 12-13 at Princeton in hopes of earning an Ancient Eight title.


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U.S. ambassador to U.N. agrees with Jay Carney: Middle East protests not premeditated and weren't directed at United States
**Written by Doug Powers
United States' ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice seconded the official explanation from the Obama administration that the protests in the Middle East started because of an Internet video and were completely spontaneous:
JAY CARNEY: This is not a case of protests directed at the United States writ large or at U.S. policy. This is in response to a video that is offensive.
WALLACE: You don't really believe that?
AMB. RICE: Chris, absolutely I believe that. Because, in fact, it is the case. We had the evolution of the Arab Spring over the last many months but what sparked the recent violence was the airing on the Internet of a very hateful very offensive video that has offended many people around the world. Now, our strong view is that there is no excuse for violence. It is reprehensible and never justified. But in fact there have been those in various parts of the world who have reacted with violence. Their governments have increasingly and effectively responded and protected our facilities and condemned the violence and this outrageous response to what is an offensive video. But there is no question what we have seen in the past with things like Satanic Verses and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad there have been such things that have sparked outrage and anger and this has been the proximate cause.
Video via Weekly Standard:
Rice also said today that the attack that just happened to be on the anniversary of 9/11 that led to the deaths of a US ambassador and three others was not premeditated.
So convinced is the State Department that they don't want to hear anymore questions about it.
The Libyan president is taking a much different tone:
Megarif says that over the past few months, foreigners took advantage of the security vacuum and flowed into the country from Mali and Algeria. I ask if this attack was over an anti-Muslim film that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. He shakes his head.
"The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous," he says. "We firmly believe that this was a precalculated, preplanned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the U.S. Consulate."
The attackers used the protesters outside the consulate as a cover, he says.
Sen. John McCain and Rep. Mike Rogers aren't sold on the "spontaneous" claim either:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), also speaking on CBS, appeared to disagree with the suggestion that the attack was spontaneous. "Most people don't bring rocket propelled grenades and heavy weapons to a demonstration. That was an act of terror, and for anyone to disagree with that fundamental fact, I think is really ignoring of the facts," said McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers (Mich.) echoed a similar sentiment on "Fox News Sunday." He said: "I'm just suspect that they could come to that conclusion so assuredly — that it was a spontaneous effort, given the coordination of it."
**Written by Doug Powers
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There's a wonderful line from director John Ford's elegiac early '60s ode to the old west, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:
"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Dwayne Erickson dealt in legends, in the western lifestyle, in the indomitable spirit and the restless romance of the cowboy way. Even those among us who mistakenly believed Midnight was a time of day and not a bucking horse, the Black Snake a slithering, fork-tongued viper and not a long, winding ribbon of highway that led into the next town, the next rodeo, found ourselves lured by his words anyway.
Dwayne, you see, could spin barn straw into gold on a printed page.
That's what can happen when you have a gift and fiercely love what you're writing about; when you care deeply for the people whose stories you're committed to tell.
Cowboy, as everyone in the media knew him, passed away Monday. He was 75.
"In my opinion, the best rodeo writer in Canada, maybe in North America," said Strathmore bull rider Scott Schiffner in tribute. "He had a real passion for it. No offence to other reporters, but they don't really know the sport. Dwayne did. You'll be at a big event like Stampede, a lot of reporters around, and someone will ask you: What's the longest you've ever stayed on?' And you're like 'Are you kidding me? Haven't you read the rule book?' And then you'd see Dwayne, out of the corner of your eye, kind of chuckling.
"I remember when his number would come up on your phone, it was exciting. Kind of a badge of honour. You knew you'd done something successful, and he wanted to talk to you about it.
"So when you saw Dwayne's number come up, you knew you'd kind of made it."
Oh, he could be cantankerous. Obstinate. Outspoken. Intimidating. Dwayne Erickson stories littered the newspaper landscape. He was one of the last of those old-school journalists you always hear about, the indelible personalties that used to populate the business and, sadly, are leaving us one by one.
Inside the tough-as-old-boot-leather exterior, though, beat a heart as wide, as vast, as the sky his chosen people rode and roped under. He wanted others, the uninitiated, to see the sport he cherished in his way, the best possible way, and he also wanted it done right, so he was willing to lend a helping hand to any greenhorn flung into what is a rather tightly-knit world.
A nod and quick aside to a cowboy — "Hey, this kid's all right" — under the stands or behind the Stampede stage after a $50,000 final gave you unlimited access to the story.
If Dwayne trusted you, then you could be trusted.
Understand, there are a lot of pretty fair hockey writers and football writers and baseball writers around. There was only one unimpeachable authority on rodeo.
Writing about Cowboy's entry into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame five years ago, fellow Hall of Famer John Down told the story of how Dwayne got hooked back in 1958 after Edmonton Journal sports editor Hal Pawson first assigned him to pen a rodeo yarn.
"I didn't know the back end of a horse from the front end," Dwayne told Downsy. "I really didn't want to do it, but Hal told me I either covered it or should look for another job."
Not keen on checking the want ads, he covered it.
And in the process found his life's calling.
He covered his first Canadian Finals Rodeo in 1979, his first Calgary Stampede in '82 and every National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas since '85, working not only for the Herald and the Journal, but both the Edmonton and Calgary Suns, the Winnipeg Free Press, CBC-TV and the Canadian Rodeo News.
"As a rodeo writer, I don't think anyone could carry his saddle," says Down, who collaborated with Cowboy off and on since 1965. "He wrote in their language. I didn't read rodeo until Dwayne. But his stuff just grabbed you. They're really gonna miss this guy. He was rodeo's champion.
"Anybody who ever worked with Dwayne, will never forget him, especially in later years — with all this new technology — because within five minutes, he would erupt. Thing was, he was never mad at others, usually he was only mad at himself."
When inducted into the Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame a decade ago, Dwayne summed up his philosophy:
"What I have tried to do is explain that cowboys are not million-dollar hockey players or football players. They are good, everyday people who have the greatest sense of community that I have ever seen. It makes me so proud of this sport, because there isn't a moment when they wouldn't stick out their hand and help, in competition and in life. Rodeo is a life teacher."
It's going to be exponentially different this summer. Not seeing him sitting there, in the media trailer late afternoon during Stampede, nursing a beer, cigarette at the ready, cursing silently (or not so silently), hunched over his computer, spinning barn straw into gold.
A strange, empty feeling. The quiet is sure to be oppressive.
There's an oft-told story of a full-of-himself young cowboy being interviewed by the old master. The young cowboy prattled a bunch of cliches for a few minutes, uninterrupted. Dwayne listened politely.
"Did you get your story?" the cowboy finally asked.
"No," said Dwayne, fixing the kid with a stare.
The youngster, suddenly uncomfortable, then proceeded to open up about himself.
After the kid had finished, Cowboy quietly turned off his recorder. "Now I've got my story."
This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Well, in cowboy circles, Dwayne Erickson, a great friend to rodeo and to a lot of the rest of us, as well, became something of a legend himself.
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A series of lectures, workshops, and panel discussions will address the impact of gender violence and sexual assault on individuals and campus communities during Survivor to Thriver: Confronting Sexual Assault on Campus, a conference to be held on Tuesday, April 2, and Wednesday, April 3, at the University of Rochester.
"The responsibility of confronting sexual assault is in the hands of all University of Rochester students and it is imperative that as a community we work together to support those that are personally affected by sexual violence and educate each other about ways to prevent it from occurring," said Sara Gleisle, a student in the Warner School of Education and graduate assistant in the UHS Health Promotion Office, who helped organize the conference.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, has a host of supporters, including the University's Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership. "Conferences such as this reflect a great partnership between the campus and community to work together on important issues," said Catherine Cerulli, director of the Center. "While many services exist within the campus and community at large to help victims begin their healing journeys, they must first know help is available. Our panelists will help demystify the process in efforts to encourage survivors to reach out."
The conference opens Tuesday evening with a screening of the film Not My Life, which depicts the scourge of human trafficking on a global scale. Narrated by Glenn Close, the film takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited through practices including forced labor, sex tourism, and child soldiering. The film screens at 7:30 p.m. in Hoyt Auditorium, and will be followed by a brief discussion.
On Wednesday, April 3, the day-long event will feature opening remarks about the importance of combatting sexual violence from University President Joel Seligman. The day also includes a keynote address from a former student athlete who recovered from an assault, a panel discussion sharing resources for survivors of gender violence, and lectures from University of Rochester faculty members. "We hope students gain a better understanding of sexual assault and more confidence in their ability to seek resources that may benefit themselves or their peers," Gleisle explained. "By introducing students to different topics and means of engaging others, we aim to change the conversation about sexual assault."
Conference Schedule for Wednesday, April 3:
Opening Remarks by President Joel Seligman
9 a.m., Interfaith Chapel, River Level
President Joel Seligman will begin the day by offering remarks about the importance of combatting sexual violence.
Keynote Address by Maggie Maloy
9 a.m., Interfaith Chapel, River Level
Former Division III student athlete, Maggie Maloy, will share her personal story of recovery after an assault.
Panel Discussion: Local Resources for Survivors
10:25 a.m., Interfaith Chapel, Sanctuary
The panel will share local resources and options available for survivors of gender violence.
Poster Session and Caring Circles
12 p.m., Bridge Lounge and May Room, Wilson Commons
Attendees will have the opportunity to view posters featuring ongoing efforts to prevent and respond to gender violence. Community and campus organizations will share information about their services in "Caring Circles." The panelists from the morning will also be available for further conversation.
Lecture: Sexual Assault as a Feature of Manthink
1:30 p.m., Gowen Room, Wilson Commons
Professor David Bleich, University of Rochester
Lecture: The Spirituality of Recovery
2:30 p.m., Gowen Room, Wilson Commons
The Rev. Dr. C. Denise Yarbrough, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life
The conference is made possible through the financial support of co-sponsors including Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership, University Intercessor, UHS Health Promotion Office, Equal Opportunity Compliance Office, The College, Office of the Dean of Students, Athletics and Recreation, University Health Service, Rochester Center for Community Leadership, Susan B. Anthony Institute, Communal Principles Project (CPP), Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys, Graduate Organizing Group (GOG), Women's Caucus, University of Rochester Pride Network, UR Cinema Group, and Southside Hall Council. Supporters also include Panhellenic Association, Multicultural Greek Council, GlobeMed, Monroe County District Attorney's Office, University Security, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Services, University Counseling Center, Rape Crisis, Monroe County Sheriff Office, Rochester Police Department, and Sexual Health Advocacy Group (SHAG).


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Even grown-ups would find it hard to resist the lovely goodies in sewer Meg McElwee's latest book, "Growing Up Sew Liberated: Making Handmade Clothes and Projects for Your Creative Child" (Interweave Press).
A few of the patterns that caught my eye included her hideaway play tent, reversible hooded play cape, and cozy kiddo pajamas. Each project description gives readers an idea of the care that McElwee puts into creating her patterns. Her directions are clear, concise, and downright fun to see come together.
That makes McElwee's Denver event on Friday (July 20) that much more intriguing. She'll do a meet-and-greet book-signing at Fancy Tiger Crafts, 59 Broadway, from 7 to 9 p.m.


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Re: Steampunk art
Im an illustrator, and Ive been tinkering with a SP story for a time. Right now Im turning myself into a character and deciding what to wear.
Here is one with the two main characters, Penny and her twin brother Nickelous.
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Im an illustrator, and Ive been tinkering with a SP story for a time. Right now Im turning myself into a character and deciding what to wear.
Here is one with the two main characters, Penny and her twin brother Nickelous.
"Nickelous", huh? I like the name!
And the car too, by the way!
Wow, that second image is great! It's so full of life!
This is actually a piece I just did recently myself. It's not like top quality, but I'm learning how to use my tablet and I drew it on iScribble.net. I hope you like it. The character is my main RP character, Scott Frizelli. He's a tinkerer.
http://athello.deviantart.com/art/Skywa … -124517966
I think it's pretty cute The character appears rather more sharp than the background though. I'd suggest trying to blend that more, now it looks a bit as though it's two different pictures merged together. But I should add that I'd never be able to make something like that, so I shouldn't be too critical!
I'll add you to my watchlist on deviantArt.
It's like that because it was done on two seperate layers in iScribble. I'm grateful for the layer system because it allows me to work on the character first, then add the background. I'm not entirely sure HOW he ended up a little bit more clear, but eventually I might gain the skill to smooth things out. As I said, I'm learning to use my tablet, and honestly that's the first Steampunk drawing I've ever done, especially of an airship.
Though that's about a week old, and this I drew just yesterday, I rather like its design.
http://athello.deviantart.com/art/Ballo … -125317087
Also, you don't have to watch me, lol, not like my work is that great or that often...
Very nice, SteamTabby. Tablets can be really difficult to use; the one time I tried learning, I gave up and went back to the mouse. Stick with it and I'm sure your art will be fantastic!
I love the sketchy style you've used in that airship picture. It is reminiscent of blueprints.
Thank you, that's just how I draw lol. I sketch.
Not steampunk but I still like to share this with you:
Yes, surrealism is still being done!
That's for sure. I found a great gallery of surreal artwork about a week ago, but I can't seem to find the link in my history... If I remember I'll post it!
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