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This is what makes The John Carlos Story (Haymarket Books) such a wonderful gift. Carlos’s intelligence, humour, ruefulness and righteous wrath make him a commanding observer and narrator. He’s sensitively aided by the cutting-edge socialist sports writer Dave Zirin, whose columns and books fearlessly explore race and ...
Carlos explains how, in early 1968, he joined a handful of other elite African‑American athletes in the newly formed Olympic Project for Human Rights. The idea was to mount an African-American boycott of the upcoming Olympics in order to dramatise the continuing oppression of black Americans. Four demands were agreed: ...
Despite valiant efforts, the OPHR activists were unable to persuade many of their fellow competitors to sign up for a boycott; for most of them the Games represented a once in a lifetime opportunity. In the end, the OPHR activists decided they too would take part, and as a result of that decision Carlos, Smith and thei...
In the 200 metres final, Smith won the gold in world record time, with the Australian Peter Norman in second, fractionally ahead of Carlos. With Norman’s support (he’s wearing the OPHR badge on the medal podium), Smith and Carlos staged their protest before a global audience. As the US national anthem played and the US...
As Carlos explains, the accompanying symbolism was hastily improvised: black gloves for black unity and strength, bead necklaces to remember the lynch mobs, black socks and no shoes for black poverty. But the message was unmistakeable – and profoundly provocative.
These were African-Americans who would not allow their success to be used to bolster America’s image, to imply that black people in America enjoyed freedom and equality. They repudiated this image as a sham, a cover-up, a false unity, and at the same time they posed against it a different solidarity, a higher unity. In...
As Carlos makes clear, the context was everything. It was 1968, and the wave of protest and repression had rolled through America and Europe and into Mexico City on the eve of the Olympics, when the military fired on protesting students, killing hundreds. In making their stand, Smith and Carlos brought the spirit of ’6...
In narratives of the 1960s it is common to find the latter part of the decade, with its sometimes extreme and violent rhetoric, contrasted unfavourably with the earlier, more innocent and high-minded years. Many historians lament in particular the passing of the integrationist, nonviolent phase of the civil rights move...
They forget that this shift occurred because of the frustrations and failures of the earlier phase, out of which arose the need for a deeper, more systematic analysis as well as more effective forms of action. They also neglect the achievement of black power in releasing the self-reliant cultural energies of black perf...
Smith and Carlos were expelled from the Olympic village and returned home to find themselves vilified. They were denounced as ‘black storm troopers’ who had disrespected their country and, most heinous of all, had shown a shocking ingratitude for all America had done for them. For years Smith and Carlos were treated as...
As the political movement that had inspired his action disintegrated, Carlos and his family were isolated. His marriage broke down. In 1977, after years of financial distress and mounting depression, his wife, the childhood sweetheart who stood by him every step of the way in 1968, took her own life.
After much struggle, Carlos found a rewarding life as a school guidance counsellor, though it’s only in the last decade that he and Smith have received the recognition they’re due. Carlos makes clear that the demons still haunt him, that there’s still unfinished business. Not least political business.
In his story, the narrative arc of trial and redemption so familiar from sports autobiographies and Hollywood biopics is invested with depth and realism – because it’s linked to a wider social struggle. The bravery was real and so was the suffering that followed. It is this history, feeding into and flowing out from th...
Since Carlos’s day, the Olympics, like so many other parts of the commons, have been colonised by global capital. At London 2012, the podium will serve as a symbol of the holy triad: individual competitive excellence, national identity and corporate overlordship.
As Carlos notes, the removal of the indigent from public view by the host city has become as much part of the Olympic ritual as the torch relay. Along with that has come the establishment of Olympic zones as licensed private dictatorships, in which rights to free expression and assembly are suppressed for the duration....
Like global capital, the Olympics have been cast as a juggernaut, an irresistible force with laws of its own to which we must all submit. In deference to that higher command, we’re told to swallow the exorbitant expense, the dubious ‘legacy’, the loss of rights, the trickle-up economics. We’re told to ignore the aching...
SINCE 1919, GAIR, GAIR, CONASON, RUBINOWITZ, BLOOM, HERSHENHORN, STEIGMAN & MACKAUF has staked its superior reputation on its dedication, sensitivity and commitment to personal service. Based in Manhattan but handling cases throughout New York and New Jersey, the firm specializes in the most serious and significant per...
In order to maintain the highest standards of quality and service, GGCRBHS&M takes on only about 100 cases a year. This concentrated focus allows for the meticulous trial preparation such substantial cases require, and ensures that tort victims receive reasonable and just compensation for the full measure of their dama...
The firm carefully screens its cases before assigning each one to a team selected for its relevant expertise. The diverse backgrounds of the firm’s 20 attorneys—including top-rated trial attorneys, renowned appellate court attorneys, a medical doctor (MD/JD), a registered nurse and an emergency medical technician—give ...
In the last 10 years alone, GGCRBHS&M’s impressive track record includes more than 350 cases resulting in verdicts or settlements exceeding $1 million. Among the most notable awards were $103 million for a child who sustained brain damage at birth; $90 million for a child with cerebral palsy resulting from birth injuri...
In addition, Nine of our present lawyers have been listed in the Best Lawyers in America as seen in New York Magazine: Ben Rubinowitz, Jeffrey Bloom, Anthony Gair, Howard Hershenhorn, Richard Steigman, Stephen Mackauf, Seymour Boyers, Marijo Adimey and Christopher Donadio have all been recognized as Best Lawyers and ea...
Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf has enjoyed a long and storied tradition of success for our clients. The firm was founded in 1919 in New York City by Harry A. Gair, one of the most prominent and respected trial attorneys in the country. He was subsequently joined in practice by h...
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The sum of the verdicts and settlements our attorneys have obtained approaches $1 billion dollars. We believe the key to achieving these results is to limit our case intake to approximately 80-100 cases per year so that extensive personal attention and meticulous trial preparation are afforded to each of our clients on...
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Ben Rubinowitz obtained a $71,000,000 verdict for a woman who suffered serious spinal injuries in a car accident. The jury awarded $5 million for her Past Pain and Suffering, 6 Million for her Future Pain and Suffering and 60 Million for her medical needs over her lifetime. Ben was assisted by our associate Rachel Jaco...
Ben Rubinowitz and Peter Saghir obtained a $41.5 million Verdict for the wrongful death of a City sanitation worker who was struck by a sweeper truck. The jury awarded $1.5 million for conscious pain and suffering (2 to 3 minutes), $15 million for past losses of parental care and guidance and financial support and $25 ...
Ben Rubinowitz and Christopher Donadio obtained a $6,250,000 Verdict for a Construction Worker injured on the job when he fell from a scaffold. This construction worker, an immigrant, suffered a fractured elbow and a fractured pelvis. The jury awarded $4,250,000 for past pain and suffering and $2,000,000 for future pai...
Our newest partner, Marijo Adimey, obtained a $1.27 million verdict in a medical malpractice case in Brooklyn, New York City. The plaintiff claimed that during a colonoscopy, the defendant doctor used excessive force during the passage of the colonoscope through the splenic flexure. Prior to trial, the defendants took ...
Our partners Ben Rubinowitz, and Peter Saghir also settled a case during retrial for a man who suffered serious injury when he was struck by a car at an improperly marked New York City roadway construction project for $8,500,000.00.
Additionally, our partners Ben Rubinowitz and Richard Steigman obtained a $7.75 million settlement in a snowmobile accident in Saranac Lake, NY. After a 3 week trial and immediately prior to summations, the case settled for $7,750,000.00. This is the largest settlement ever in Franklin County, New York.
Further, Ben Rubinowitz and Christopher Donadio obtained a $5 million settlement during trial involving a pedestrian injured in a van accident that occurred in Manhattan. At trial, the driver was subjected to intense cross examination by Ben B. Rubinowitz. Following the defendant drivers cross examination the case sett...
Ben Rubinowitz, Chirstopher Donadio and Anthony Gair obtained a $5.85 million settlement for a construction worker who suffered serious spinal injuries when he fell 15-20 feet into the building on which he was working when the roof collapsed in the area where he was working.
Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf is nationally ranked in 2 practice areas and regionally ranked in 7 practice areas. The U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.
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Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman, Mackauf, Bloom & Rubinowitz—specifically Jeff Bloom and his staff—are the most caring, knowledgeable and understanding medical malpractice attorneys that exist. Everything you hear other firms say that they do, this firm does and does it well. Jeff Bloom knew more about my cancer then mos...
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The body of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates has been found.
(CNN) -- The body of the managing director of one of the richest investment funds in the world was found Tuesday, four days after he disappeared after a plane crash in Morocco, the official Moroccan news agency reported.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had been missing since his glider plane crashed into a lake in the north African country on Friday.
The late sheikh was a brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Sheikh Ahmed, 41, was director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
He was also chairman of the board of trustees of the Zayed Foundation for Charity and Humanitarian Works, according to WAM, the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates.
The body was found by rescue teams at a dam in Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah lake, in Skhirat Temara, a suburb of the Moroccan capital Rabat.
Some 225 people -- including over 100 divers from Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, France, Spain and the United States in addition to four emergency physicians -- were called in, the Moroccan Press Agency reported.
The body was found by rescue teams in Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah lake, in Skhirat Temara, a suburb of the Moroccan capital Rabat.
The remains are being transported back to the Emirates from Morocco and are expected to be buried Wednesday, Abu Dhabi TV reported.
The ruling family will attend prayers in the Sheikh Zayed Mosque Wednesday afternoon as three days of state mourning begin, the station reported.
Forbes' 2009 rankings of "The World's Most Powerful People" listed the late sheikh at No. 27.
The pilot of the plane was rescued in good condition after the crash, WAM said.
"As a matter of policy ADIA does not disclose its assets under management," he said. But he noted that his brother, the president, who is also ADIA's chairman, "has stated publicly that some of the highest estimates seen in the media have been exaggerated."
But the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute estimates that ADIA is among the richest investment vehicles of its kind in the world -- if not the richest.
CNN's Saad Abedine and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report.
Forward comfortable Rangers know what he can contribute going forward.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- To hear Brendan Lemieux, the final eight games of this New York Rangers season are not akin to an audition.
As he sees it, the 23-year old is adamant that these games are not a trial run so the organization can determine whether he can fill a role as a top-six forward in 2019-20.
“I think they know what they’re getting with me and they know that I’m versatile, and that I can play down in the lineup and also play up in the lineup,” Lemieux said following practice Sunday at the MSG Training Facility. Lemieux played on the top line with Mika Zibanejad and Pavel Buchnevich in Saturday night’s 2-1 o...
During his post-practice media availability, coach David Quinn said Kreider is “still day-to-day and won’t be available for” Monday’s game at the Garden against the Penguins. Quinn also said Marc Staal, who did not participate in practice, sustained “a lower-body issue” in the win over the Leafs.
Against the Leafs, Lemieux recorded a shot on goal in 21 shifts spanning 15:29. But perhaps his most important contribution in the win was creating chaos in front of Frederik Andersen leading to Pavel Buchnevich’s goal that tied the game at one apiece 19 seconds into the third.
Lemieux drove to the net and became entangled with Jake Muzzin in front of Andersen, creating a shooting lane from the right circle for Buchnevich.
Acquired at the trade deadline along with a first round pick in June’s draft and a conditional fourth round pick in the 2022 draft from Winnipeg for Kevin Hayes, Lemieux has five points (two goals and three assists) in 12 games with the Rangers, where he is averaging 12:06 of ice time per game. By comparison, Lemieux r...
“I think I’m a little surprised from a skill standpoint,” Quinn said of Lemieux, who has provided a physical element (29 hits) and a north-south game to the lineup. “That said, he can’t lose sight of who he is and what’s going to allow him to have success at this level. I think his skill is a byproduct of his mentality...
Industry organization GSM Association has completed trials of SIP-I, a protocol that will make it possible to send circuit-switched mobile traffic over core networks based on Internet Protocol.
As mobile networks become more and more IP-based there will still be a need to support devices that use circuit-switched voice networks, according to Mark Hogan, program director at the GSM Association.
In the trial, SIP-I (Session Initiation Protocol with encapsulated ISUP) was used to control the transmission of voice calls from a conventional circuit-switched mobile network on to an IP-based backbone network and then back onto a conventional circuit-switched mobile network, using equipment from Ericsson and Nokia S...
The goal, which was accomplished, was to show interoperability between mobile softswitches from the two vendors. Besides voice, SIP-I can also be used to support video telephony, fax and data traffic.
The trial was hosted by TeliaSonera, using its Finnish and Swedish laboratories. The company sees the need for the protocol both internally and when interconnecting with other operators, according to Claes Nycander, head of common development and vice president at TeliaSonera Mobility Services.
The SIP-I trials are also part of a bigger picture: the GSM Association's IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) initiative to develop a private global IP backbone designed to guarantee quality of service when users connected to different operators communicate with each other. The first IPX networks will see the light of d...
Besides TeliaSonera other operators, including France Telecom, T-Mobile, Telefonica and Vodafone, are involved in the development of IPX, according to the GSM Association.
Musician was responsible for tunes including "Three Is a Magic Number" and "My Hero, Zero"
Bob Dorough, the jazz musician who was instrumental in the 1970s educational cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock!” died Monday in Mt. Bethel, Pennsylvania, a spokesperson for Dorough told TheWrap. He was 94.
Dorough, born in Arkansas and raised in Texas, took to music early, joining his high school’s band and serving three years in a special services army band unit.
Dorough was a conductor, accompany player, arranger and conductor for a number of years before recording his first effort of his own, “Devil May Care,” in 1956 for the Bethlehem label. Among the artists Dorough worked with was Miles Davis, recording “Nothing Like You” and “Blue Xmas,” both of which Dorough composed, wi...
In 1995, Dorough signed with the prestigious Blue Note Records label, recording three CDs — “Right on My Way Home,” “Too Much Coffee Man” and “Who’s On First” — for the label.
Butler posted 22 points (7-17 FG, 3-9 3Pt, 5-5 FT), four rebounds, and two assists in 37 minutes during Wednesday's 118-115 win over the Celtics.
Butler shook off a slow start (four points in the first half) to come up in the clutch with big buckets galore. His four-game streak of scoring at least 20 points is the longest he has managed through 49 appearances with the 76ers, and he seems to be hitting his stride just in time given that the playoffs are on the ho...
Because it's football season again, and because it really hasn't been baseball season for four years, and because it was only basketball season for like, five minutes, once, until everybody good was told, "You're throwing off the curve, please leave," and because Bobby Petrino jokes, like watching Curly pivot and accid...
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