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Jean-Charles Dupoire Autumn 2003 jo180º FROM lee ORDINARY JO LEE’s Exclusive Interview: The Prince of Epic Jean-Charles Dupoire Hijacked on the Wire Cataract Tuscan Surgery Dreams: Dark Ages Sculptor,Writer Gone Linda Kay Marie Who&Where HowaBusiness art thine enemies? is Born IRAQ: How to Grow AJustWar? Without Violence The Adeste Prize We Invite The Award corporations/individuals Successful awardees will to contribute to those receive the exquisitely designed who have achieved. Adeste Crystal Medallion. Foresight requires a curiosity as deep Whenever the committee recognizes an as it is boundless… and our greatest achievement above and beyond incentive should be in helping those expectation – an additional cash prize who are young. that embraces the ‘on-going endeavors’ We at JO LEE give you an ‘open’ of an Awardee, will be given.Awards will invitation to embrace those who may be announced in November of each year. otherwise not be recognized and assist them in ‘seeing the future before it arrives’. Criteria THE Adeste Prize will be awarded to The achievement by the Candidate ‘The 40 and under individuals’ for should be of a humanitarian act of achievements in the categories of the significant magnitude which positively Humanities, Social Justice,Technology, benefits mankind by advancing the Arts, and Medicine. ability to meet a basic need or should Nominations are urged by readers be a new, original, and meaningful around the world. Please! Submit the discovery. name of someone you believe is deserving of such an award. Nominees should have either achieved extra-ordinary findings, or excelled beyond their limits in inspiring others to ‘touch the stars’ ADESTE takes as its Credo – the lessons behind Nobel. For Submissions » CLICK HERE « CONTENTS PAGE 2 jo180º FROM lee ORDINARY Founder and Editor in Chief JOSEPHINA LEA MASCIOLI-MANSELL Worldwide Strategic Advisor Rachael McAfee Managing Editor Nahidah Malik Editor at Large Carla Dragnea Marketing Editor Maureen O’Mahoney Executive Editor, Global Planning Nino Mascioli Editor, Diplomatic Relations Shawn Zahedi Contributing Editor Joanne Giancola Coordinating Editors Colleen Buckett / Todd Manevski Creative Design Scott Thornley + Company Inc. Online Producer Director Danilo Navas Powered by IITI Special Projects The A Team Public Relations Strategic Ampersand Inc. Artistic Director Joseph McNamara Director to the Offices of Jo Lee Peggy Egan Production Salvita Gomes-Makhani, Manuel Navas Photo Stylist Yana Bassovitch THE ADESTE PRIZE: THE 40 AND UNDER GOVERNORS Sr. Strategist Gayle Robyn Toronto, Canada Honorary Patron Sue Tam Borden Toronto, Canada Aniko Boehler Marrakech, Morocco Karine Hagen Moscow, Russia Mansour Salamé San Francisco, USA Salim Abu-Samra, Middle East & Europe COLUMNISTS Gene Arceri The Challenging & Provocative World of Arceri Dr. John J. Bagshaw Stethoscope 911 Andrea Buckett Crazzy about R&D – You Are What You Ate Hugh Coppen The Marvelous Maverick Carla Dragnea R&D Editor at Large Audrey Lisette Hess-Eberle Yes, Virginia! Come – Explore with Me Mohammed Malik, Jr. Weird and Wacky Facts Nahidah Malik CrazZy About R&D (World Issues) James Mansell Half Time Josephina Lea Mascioli-Mansel Thru the Eyes of Jo Lee Lani Silver Politically Red Carolyn Young Thin’K’ers Corner PUBLISHED BY JO LEE – YESINTL.COM For free On-line Subscription » click here « 416.360.4898 [email protected] For Bound Copies » click here « $12 USD (includes shipping and handling) THE JO LEE SPECIAL hits the on-line stands March/June/September/December 1 www.yesintl.com JO LEE Magazine and its worldwide readers are dedicated to the support of the Adeste Prize. CONTENTS PAGE 3 3 20 10 18 table of contents Philanthropic 2 The ADESTE Prize Jo Lee: Exclusive 32 Interview 10 The Prince of Epic Toronto: The Fairmont Royal York’s Jean-Charles Dupoire Lifestyles & Careers Jo Lee: 6 The Marvelous Maverick 36 Celebrating Beauty by Hugh Coppen Le Café au Salon Rouge Company and Employees on Different Wavelengths Jo Lee Intoxicating Thin'K'ers Corner Opinions 40 by Carolyn Young 38 Come to the CamPUS Politically Red by Lani Silver Medicine Pros & Ex.Cons 18 46 by George Weigel Stethoscope 911 Sr. Fellow of the Ethics by Dr. John J. Bagshaw 23 and Public Policy Centre, Why are patients subjected Washington, D.C. to radical treatment? Travel Arts & Entertainment 20 Come – Explore with me The Provocative by Audrey Lisette Hess-Eberle 8 Nepal: By Design of Splendor and Challenging by Gene Arceri The incomparable Jean Cook: An Invitation to Understanding CONTENTS PAGE 4 34 45 38 table of contents Features Sports 23 Tuscan Dreams Half Time: by Linda Kay Marie Wallace, 22 Behind the Bench Tuscany, Italia. Sculptor, by James Mansell 22 Writer, Caprese Michelangelo The “X” Factor Who and Where 28 Art Thine Enemies? Body and Self by Captain Peter A. Stark, Jr. You Are What You Ate USN, Ret., Charlottesville, 45 You’ll Become What You Eat Virginia. Exploring the by Andrea Buckett, challenges of terrorism Doctor of Homeopathy to the freedoms we enjoy. Hijacked on the Wire Indulgences 26 by Gary Freeman, 42 Toronto, Canada Managing Editor Information theft CraZzy about R & D and identity hijacking by Nahidah Malik 30 Cataract Surgery Editor at Large by W.E.S. Connolly, 50 Preparing for School MD, FRCSC by Carla Dragnea Montréal, Canada. Dark Ages Gone. Wit’s End 32 How a Business Is Born 48 Weird and Wacky Facts by Micheline C. Hollaus, by Mohammed Malik Boca Raton, Florida. On Authors and Books Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. On theCover » To Grow Without Jo Lee at the Fairmont Royal York, 34 Violence 19th Floor, Toronto, Canada by Judith Land, 22 Karat Gold Pendant, National Shield of Honduras, Budapest, Hungary by Merendon Jewellery, S.A. Feedback » photo by Kathryn Grant CONTENTS PAGE 5 THE MARVELOUS MAVERICK » By Hugh Coppen » OK – that’s it! Summer is over. Life’s like Aaron S. asks: Mav, coming home that: things we enjoy slip by too fast, while from a business trip the airline was overbooked and offered a free things we don’t, seem to last forever. Here’s ticket to anyone who would give up my question: Would you prefer for your life their seat. I took the deal and was to go by fast because you’re happy with what back at work on time the next day. it is, or to drag by slowly because you’re not Do I owe that free ticket to the company? at all happy? Here are some great questions from this month’s mailbox: Whoa, Aaron, questions like this have so many aspects – it all depends on your perspective! Often the company thinks one thing and the employee, the opposite. My first advice to you is to do whatever your ‘highest conscience’ guides you to do. Beyond that, I’d say this: if the company generally expects you to travel on ‘your’ time (i.e. evenings and weekends) then, I say you keep that free ticket since you gave up more of your own time to earn it. But if the company normally books you to travel during business hours, and if you earn a free ticket ‘on Things we enjoy company time’, then I think you’re obliged to return the free ticket to the company. Pretty broad slip by too fast. guidelines, I know, but they work! CONTENTS PAGE 6 Do whatever your ‘highest conscience’ guides you to do. Mike B. asks: Mav, My boss is all Julie M. asks: Mav! I was over me – I don’t seem to do promised a bonus package anything right although I am at my last review, but I doing everything expected of me. have no idea what is I’ve never had this problem expected of me to earn it. before and always have excellent What do I do? performance reviews. What do Should a free ticket obtained I’m going to bet you’re in a small, from business travel be used you suggest? entrepreneurial company, Julie. for a personal vacation? Tough one, Mike, because it Entrepreneurs are so self-motivated could be so many things. that they think everybody is like Sometimes it’s because the boss is them and that people will work for so frustrated by his/her own boss some vague bonus. Not true! that the only outlet is to nit-pick You absolutely must get specific you. Or it could be that you’re on achievable measures down on different ‘wavelengths’ and that paper. You’re likely to find that there are expectations that your your boss can’t be very specific, so boss has, that you’re not meeting the discipline will fall on you. because you never knew they were Suggest targets, and don’t settle there. for anything less. It’s the only way What often happens in this you’ll ever earn your bonus, trust situation is that tensions build up me! Until next time, The Mav and communications go down. To Write The Maverick » Click Here « Don’t let this happen! It usually ends badly for you! You have to find Hugh Coppen, The Marvelous Maverick, ways to talk with your boss. Talk is a man who understands that the only about what you’ve done (be very way a company succeeds is when the specific) and what you’re in the employees from bottom to top are process of accomplishing, and motivated by shared goals and when explain how puzzled you are that they develop their skills, knowing that he/she is not satisfied. Ask for new what they do really matters. People specific goals you can agree on have always been the focus of Hugh’s together, document them yourself highly successful career! Write Hugh if you have to, and then commit now with your questions about your to your boss that you will achieve career and let him help you.
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