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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night—Be Kind; Change The World

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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night—Be Kind; Change The World

Two of the huge responsibilities that come with leadership are to be kind and help change the world.

Among the many memorable lines written by the Bard of Avon (Stratford-upon-Avon, the town in Warwickshire county, England, not the cosmetics and personal care company), few are more-often quoted than what the beautiful young Juliet Capulet says to her beloved Romeo as she bids him good night: “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

So it is, after 60 contributions to Forbes’ marketplace of ideas, that I say farewell. I’m assuming “emeritus” status at Boston Consulting Group and plan to focus my time and energy on my teaching duties at Harvard Kennedy School and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

It probably goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, leadership—my wheelhouse these past 30 months—has never been more important.

In these columns I’ve discussed a lot of different themes: how leaders can make better use of data, artificial intelligence and technology; their role as communicators; managing change at a time when management itself is changing; how to make their organizations more “agile;” the need to “champion,” not just mentor, the next generation of managers and leaders; empowering and helping teams; creating the proper culture; prioritizing diversity and inclusion; getting more from (and giving more to) Millennials; the pros and cons of remote work, and even planning for a satisfying retirement.

I profiled some world-class business leaders, such as Indra Nooyi and Satya Nadella, immigrants who rose to the top ranks of global business, and I offered some fatherly advice to would-be leaders of the future as they graduate from college.

For more on these and similar issues, I encourage you to follow the new column by Deborah Lovich, my friend and colleague and one of BCG’s best and brightest. Her insightful thinking on the future of work and many of the other issues I’ve touched upon—and some I didn’t—is unparalleled.

With everything I’ve thrown your way over these many months you might think that leadership itself is secondary. Put enough of the individual pieces together properly, like a jig-saw puzzle, and your organization will thrive.

If that’s the impression I’ve given, I’ve failed.

The minutiae are important; but don’t get caught up in the weeds. Leadership is the critical secret ingredient—the powerful adhesive that holds everything together. Bad leadership destroys cohesion; it destroys value; it’s been known to destroy companies.

Good leadership is a creative force.

I want to finish by repeating the same few words I offer my students at the end of each semester: Be Kind; Change the World.

There are few times in modern history when the world was more in need of kindness and change. This is among the huge responsibilities that comes with leadership: to be kind and help change the world.

That’s why we need great leaders.

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andrewromanoyahoo · 8 years ago

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Can Democratic ‘Wonder Woman’ Mai-Khanh Tran unseat one of the most powerful House Republicans in 2018?

Dr. Mai-Khanh Tran (Photo: Courtesy of Facebook)

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. — In many ways, Dr. Mai-Khanh Tran isn’t all that different from millions of other Democrats who have been dismayed or depressed or indignant since Donald Trump was elected president.

On election night, Tran watched in shock as the returns rolled in. The next morning, she wept at work — Tran is a pediatrician — with her colleagues. Later, she joined the protesters shouting slogans and waving signs outside the Orange County offices of several Republican congressmen.

But Tran didn’t stop there. Last month, she actually decided to enter elected politics herself, launching a long-shot campaign to unseat 12-term Republican Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

While defeating Royce may seem like a tall order for a political novice, Tran, 51, has already spent her entire life overcoming impossible odds.

In 1975, Tran arrived in America as a 9-year-old refugee from war-torn Vietnam — without her parents. She spent her summers picking strawberries in rural Oregon, eventually working her way through college at Harvard as a janitor. And she survived two bouts of breast cancer and endured eight rounds of in vitro fertilization before finally getting pregnant at age 46.

“I think you’ve got to have total commitment to everything you do in life,” Tran said on a recent Thursday afternoon as she sipped from a bowl of bone-in kalbi soup on the patio of a new pan-Asian restaurant in Orange County’s Little Saigon. “You’ve got to do things for the right reasons. And when you have the right reasons — if what you’re doing is needed, on behalf of others — you will do it until you succeed. I truly believe that.”

Whether Tran can succeed her in mission to topple Royce remains to be seen. But if any place encapsulates the challenges facing Republicans in 2018, Orange County is it. And if any Democratic hopeful embodies the political crosscurrents that will likely define the coming midterms, Tran may be the one.

Topping the list of those forces? Health care.

The first patient Tran saw the morning after the election was a child with a brain tumor. The girl’s mother, a local nail salon worker, couldn’t get health insurance for her children until Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Realizing that her coverage might change under Republican rule — that “this was going to affect her daughter’s life soon” — the two women cried together in Tran’s examination room.

A few months later, the mother called Tran. The House had just passed the American Health Care Act — the GOP’s Obamacare repeal bill — and she was, according to Tran, “petrified.”

Dr. Mai-Khanh Tran currently works as a pediatrician in Orange County, Calif. (Photo: Courtesy of Facebook)

That’s when Tran decided to run for Congress.

“It was the speed of that vote, the secret way it was done, that just pushed me,” Tran told Yahoo News, noting that she had spent the previous three months appearing on local Vietnamese-language TV to explain what was at stake. “I thought, ‘We can do all the prep work, all the work to inform the public, but when it comes down to it, their voice just isn’t there where it matters. On the floor. In the caucuses. All of the meetings.’ It just made me so angry. And I said, ‘You know what? We need to have people who really understand health care in Washington. We need to be in the game.’”

As the Republican Senate struggles to pass its own version of a bill to repeal Obamacare, health care is shaping up to be the central issue in 2018.

In part, that’s because 217 GOP House members — including all four Orange County Republicans — voted for the AHCA, a deeply unpopular measure that even President Trump has called “mean.” Democrats plan to spend millions of dollars between now and next November reminding voters of this fact.

The so-called resistance to Trump — and, more specifically, the resistance to his party’s Obamacare repeal push — has inspired newcomers like Tran, many of whom are also doctors or scientists or women, to get off the sidelines and run for office themselves.

The result is a rookie class of grassroots candidates rallying around a potent message. The question is whether fresh faces and passionate resistance will be enough to flip the 24 seats Democrats need to regain control of the House.

Opportunity in Orange County

Despite its conservative past — Orange County voted for the GOP candidate in every presidential election from 1936 to 2012 — the O.C. now overlaps with the districts of four of the 25 most vulnerable Republicans in Congress: Darrell Issa, Dana Rohrabacher, Mimi Walters and Ed Royce. Hillary Clinton captured all four of their districts in the 2016 presidential race — a first for a Democrat — and won the county as a whole by 9 percentage points. A growing minority population, a concentration of college-educated whites and a declining GOP registration advantage are making the area more and more treacherous for Republicans, especially with Trump in the White House. Democrats have taken notice, fielding several promising candidates, including multimillionaire stem-cell pioneer Hans Keirstead; real estate entrepreneur Harley Rouda; environmental activist Mike Levin; and retired U.S. Marine Col. Doug Applegate.

“It’s districts like these that will decide whether the Democrats can make a serious run at control of the House,” the New York Times’ Nate Cohn recently wrote.

Political novice

In person, Tran doesn’t seem like a politician. Petite, with a few gray hairs peeking through an otherwise black bob, she trembles slightly when she starts to answer a question, her soft voice starting and stopping and wavering as she struggles for the right words to express her views, none of which have yet been scripted for her by some cadre of consultants. She apologized for “not being good at this,” and teared up four times over the course of a two-hour conversation. At one point, she unleashes a few choice words about Donald Trump, then said, “This is off the record,” which prompts her sole campaign adviser to laugh and explain that “you have to say you’re off the record before you say something, Mai-Khanh.”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” Tran said.

But Tran’s outward gentleness masks a fierce inner strength that has been fostered by decades of unimaginable hardship and improbable success.

Of her childhood in Vietnam, the things Tran remembers most are the near-constant explosions. “Every night, every other night, there would be bombs going off,” she said. “We’d all go into a little space under staircase. We’d hear the bomb go by — zoom! — and we’d run in there.”

One day in early 1975, Tran’s father, a prominent Saigon judge, took her and her three siblings, the youngest of whom was still wearing diapers, to a local Catholic orphanage, leaving them behind without any explanation. Tran recalls that her father was wearing sunglasses, but only later did she realize that he must have been crying.

“It was an act of total desperation on my dad’s part,” Tran said. “A lot of people were giving up their children so they could get them out. This was their last resort.”

The U.S. military airlifted Tran and her siblings to San Francisco, where “big Marines” carried each of them off the plane. “I tell you, even today, if I see a guy in uniform, I really do get so emotional,” Tran said. “I still am so grateful and humble.”

Eventually, the children ended up at a convent in Salem, Ore. Six months later, their parents, who escaped Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, joined them. In America, Tran’s father could no longer work as a judge; the closest he came was a gig cleaning the local courthouse. To make ends meet, the Trans rented out their apartment’s single bedroom to a college student while the six of them slept together in the living room.

“My first Fourth of July celebration was in 1976 — the bicentennial,” Tran said. “The fireworks were huge. And I was cowering in fear. It was so loud, like bombs. Even to this day, I don’t like fireworks.”

Inspired by her grandfather, a traditional medicine man, Tran decided early on that she wanted to be a doctor. Every moment she wasn’t working was spent reading. After four years at an inner-city high school in Portland — she and her friends were bused in from the Vietnamese “ghetto” — Tran graduated first in her class and was accepted by Harvard.

“Maybe because I am an immigrant, I feel like I need to know more,” Tran said. “I need to know more and do more.”

Tran loved her college experience, but it wasn’t exactly easy. Without money for a hotel, her father was forced to request Freshman Weekend accommodations from random Vietnamese locals, and Tran paid her way through school with three simultaneous jobs — janitor, security guard and reader for the blind.

“I cleaned the jocks’ dorm,” she said. “The rich kids’ dorm. And, you know, they throw out a lot of things. I remember picking up things that we could use. I don’t think I ever felt like I belonged there.”

A stint as a health care analyst on Wall Street followed, then medical school at Brown-Dartmouth. After her residency at UCLA, Tran started her own practice in Fountain Valley, where she has spent the last 25 years treating working-class immigrants, educating the community and leading thrice-yearly medical missions to hot spots around the world — leper colonies in the Vietnamese jungle, typhoon-ravaged villages in the Philippines, impoverished neighborhoods in Tijuana.

That experience, she says, is what has convinced her she’s ready for Congress.

“We have to figure out how we’re going to feed these people,” Tran explained. “We help them with job training. We set up farms for them. We set up revolving loans for them. We do clean water. We make sure their kids get the education they need. As a congresswoman, I plan to bring that sort of comprehensive approach to my community and my constituents.”

Tran’s successful battles with breast cancer and infertility have convinced those around her that she can succeed in the political arena as well.

Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Sept. 21, 2016. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

“She’s like Wonder Woman,” said adviser Courtni Pugh, whose other clients include Kevin de Leon, California Senate president pro tempore. “Everything Mai-Khanh has overcome in her life? We need to create, like, a meme. We’ll put her in a red cape.”

Uphill climb

Wonder Woman or not, Tran is still a serious underdog in the race against Royce. If she wins the Democratic primary — her opponent is former chemistry professor Phil Janowicz — she’ll be facing off against a politician who’s been winning elections for as long as she’s been a pediatrician.

Incumbency isn’t Royce’s only advantage either. Even though Clinton won CA-39, Royce was easily reelected with 57 percent of the vote, and he’s the most popular of the four vulnerable Orange County Republicans. He’s also a prodigious fundraiser, with $2.8 million already stockpiled for 2018.

Tran believes the same demographic shifts that boosted Clinton to victory throughout Orange County could work in her favor. CA-39, for example, is more than 60 percent Asian and Hispanic — and only 34 percent white. Many of these whites are exactly the sort of college-educated suburbanites Trump lost in November, and while older Vietnamese-Americans have voted Republican for decades — like older Cuban-Americans, they tend to be staunch anti-Communists — their children have been registering as Democrats or independents.

For now, Tran is focused on getting her fledging campaign up and running. She’s talking to potential hires. She’s sounding out local politicos. And she’s spending hours every afternoon in her garage, dialing for dollars.

The work can be grueling. Devastated after one particularly fruitless fundraising session, Tran looked up to see her aging mother leaning over her. “Do you need me to give you my last gold nugget?” her mother said, referring to the small bars that she and other refugees had brought with them to America more than four decades ago, just in case. “You know, to help your campaign?”

Tran had to remind herself that the road ahead would be long — and that she was running for the right reasons.

“It was my mom who, throughout the years, said, ‘You’ve got to help people, you’ve got to speak for people,” Tran explained. “So if there’s an opportunity here, it is for a Democrat who resonates and listens. And so I go back to what makes me a good candidate: I’m a good listener. As a physician, that’s all I do. I listen to my patients. I listen to their pain, their suffering, their concerns. That’s what I’m good at. Then hopefully I’ll try to find a solution that might alleviate their pain, their suffering, their concerns.

“I don’t think that’s what people are doing in the political sphere right now,” Tran continued. “They have agendas. They have ideas they’re trying to push. But they’re not listening to their constituents. More and more, their constituents in these districts have changed so much; their needs have changed so much. And it’s just not connecting with the people who are currently representing them.”

Read more from Yahoo News:

Senate Republicans suddenly delay health care vote

Why it’s so hard to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare — or almost anything else

Hillary Clinton: Reading ‘Harry Potter’ builds compassion for immigrants, refugees

White House warns Syria may be readying chemical attack

Photos: Wild horses return to Mongolia’s steppes

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Discussion: Racial Injustice and Responsibility

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Discussion: Racial Injustice and Responsibility

In the wake of George Floyd’s death and as part of an ongoing lecture series hosted by St. Leon Armenian Church of Fair Lawn, NJ, a virtual discussion will be held on June 23, 2020 to examine racial injustice and responsibility. The talk will shed light on the legacy of racial violence and inequality from post-emancipation to the present while also looking at the role and responsibility—political and moral—of non-perpetrators of historical and contemporary violence in sustaining systemic injustice, domination and racism.

Dr. Henry Theriault

The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Henry Theriault, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Worcester State University. Dr. Theriault’s expertise is in genocide and human rights studies, and his research focuses on reparations, victim-perpetrator relations, genocide denial, genocide prevention, and mass violence against women and girls.

Panel participants include Jermaine McCalpin, Ph.D., Kohar Avakian and Michael Rothberg, Ph.D. His Grace Bishop Daniel Findikyan will deliver opening remarks.

Dr. Jermaine McCalpin

Dr. Jermaine McCalpin is the Chair of African & African American Studies at the New Jersey City University. Dr. McCalpin is an internationally recognized expert and consultant on transitional justice, genocides and reparations. He has traveled to South Africa, Cambodia, Armenia and across the United States and Canada researching and presenting on the Armenian Genocide, the transatlantic trade in Africans and reparations, truth commissions and issues of justice. Dr. McCalpin specializes in Africana political philosophy, Caribbean political thought, and transitional justice.

Kohar Avakian

Kohar Avakian is a Ph.D. candidate of American Studies at Yale University. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, Avakian authored a senior thesis examining legal whiteness in the United States using the case study of Armenian immigrants in Worcester. Her current research focuses on the intersection of race, migration and genocide in the United States.

Michael Rothberg

Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Rothberg works in the fields of Holocaust studies, trauma and memory studies, critical theory and cultural studies, postcolonial studies and contemporary literature. His latest book is The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject. The Implicated Subject engages in reflection and analysis of cultural texts, archives, and activist movements from such contested zones as transitional South Africa, contemporary Israel/Palestine, post-Holocaust Europe, and a transatlantic realm marked by the afterlives of slavery. He shows how confronting our own implication in difficult histories can lead to new forms of internationalism and long-distance solidarity.

The discussion will be held on Tuesday, June 23rd at 7:30 p.m. Register via Zoom or watch on YouTube.

The event is jointly sponsored by AGBU Ararat, Armenian Bar Association, Armenian Network of America—Greater NY, Daughters of Vartan-Sahaganoush Otyag, Justice Armenia, Knights of Vartan-Bakradouny Lodge, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Topics, St. Leon Armenian Church, St. Leon ACYOA Seniors, and Zohrab Information Center .

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ayonde · 5 years ago

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Final Year of my MBA - Part 2 (Blog#9)

I had one goal in mind – to have a full time job offer before graduation. I, along with other international students would often see American students dressed in suits that signaled that they had interview scheduled. We will also get news of their internships being converted into full time job offers by companies like Deloitte, Visa, Wells Fargo, PwC etc. International students didn’t or couldn’t convert their internships into full time jobs. Few spent the whole summer looking for internship but couldn’t. International students weren’t getting interview calls either. I felt fortunate that Cartesian replied back.

I got two days to prepare and research about Cartesian before my interview. Since the interview was case based I spent all of that time preparing case interviews. On the fateful day, 30 mins before the interview my glasses broke. I am blind as a bat without my glasses. I had a spare but at home. Commuting by either bus or by walk would take an hour unless someone would give me a quick ride in their car. I asked few of my classmates but everyone was tied up. I started panicking but had to calm down for the interview. I decided to focus on the interview – unfortunately I totally bombed it. It was just not my day.

I gave the whole interview holding my broken frame with my left hand while taking notes with my right. It wouldn’t have made a difference even if my glasses were unbroken. Dejected. I searched LinkedIn for people who worked at Cartesian. Several students were from schools like MIT, Dartmouth, and Columbia. I hated myself for ruining such an opportunity. I knew I had failed the interview so bad that I didn’t even bother to write a thank you note to the recruiter.

I had spent the winter of 2013 in Williamsburg and experienced it becoming a ghost town. I didn’t want to go through it again. Luckily I had saved some money from my GA and booked return tickets from India. I would not pass the opportunity to spend 5 weeks with family. Hiring freezes over the winter holidays and many people are on vacation. I wasn’t expecting any action.

During my stay in India, I got an email from Cartesian’s HR stating that I did not clear the interview but they wanted to schedule a time to speak with me. “Duh” I thought “of course I didn’t clear the interview but I knew that already….Why do they want to speak with me? Do they want to convey me personally over phone that I sucked?” I scheduled regardless.

To my surprise, they really liked my resume and my past telecom experience. They wanted to consider me for another position in their Management Consulting team. I couldn’t believe my luck! Of course I agreed. I gave another phone interview the following week. I told them that I was in India and return by mid Jan. They said they’ll touch base end of Jan 2015.

Electives: I returned to school, and it was time to select electives. I wanted to try out new things so instead of taking Lean Six Sigma or Project Management – which were popular choices of students who wanted to specialize in operations, I went the other way and “Generalized” my MBA. I took Change Management, Design thinking and Analytics. Change Management and Design thinking / Creative problem solving were life altering courses for me. I found Business Analytics to be dry. I also tried my best to not fit into the “Indian techie” mould. I know many people who would see a brown guy and automatically assume that I was good with Excel and running software. I was good, but because I was logical. I could apply the same logical reasoning in creating a Go-to-Market Strategy or strategic thinking. But they would limit me to running some sort of tool only.

February Madness February of 2015 was action packed! I received a call from Cartesian and scheduled a power day of interview. I would have 3 rounds of interview via Skype. At the same time, I got a call from Capital One based out of Richmond, VA. I managed to clear their telephonic interview which was case based. They invited me for power day as well. Cartesian’s interview was tough but enjoyable. Capital One’s power day was interesting and their case interviews were different. More about credit card parameters than Cartesian’s Fiber to Home. I did not clear the Capital One power day. I was again frustrated about letting an opportunity slip out.

Meanwhile, Dr. Irwin Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm visited W&M. I was selected as 1 of 10 students to have lunch with him. We had amazing conversation – once again thanks to my telecom background. He said he would help me out. I reached out to him afterwards and applied to couple of positions at Qualcomm thinking that I would surely get an interview call. To my surprise – nothing! The frustration was building up. Nothing I did worked and I wasn’t getting any updates from Cartesian as well. I had another interview with TDS telecom based out of Madison, WI but that did not go well.

Job offer: Finally, I got the call from Cartesian and this time – thankfully! – it was in my favor. I was eagerly waiting for the bus to escape from snow falling on my hand. I had grocery bags in my hand. I will never forget that day. I called my parents in India at 3am their time. I wanted them to be the first to know. Not only did Cartesian gave me a starting six figure salary with signing bonus they also wanted to apply for my H1B work visa ASAP!!

H1B: Cartesian assigned me an immigration lawyer – Larry. He explained the whole process. H1B visa a US work permit issued for people in specialty occupation. There are 65,000 slots in general quota. In 2015 number of applicants was over 233,000. As demand outnumbered supply every year USCIS conducts lottery. Petitions picked in lottery are processed. Additionally, students who hold a Master’s degree from US are put in a separate pool that has 20,000 slots. Unpicked petitions from Advanced US Masters pool get another chance in general quota as well.

Since my H1B petition was filed in March, before my graduation in May, my petition would not be considered under Advanced US Masters quota but under general quota dropping my chances at 25%. Odds were against me, however I knew that coming into US. I had a job offer and I knew that chances were high that this would be my last hurrah in United States. So, I wanted to make it special. I invited my parents, my younger sister and my wife to visit US for my graduation. This was their first international trip. First time out of India. They were excited. I was excited. The trip would start in New York City then travel south to Williamsburg, VA followed by a week at Orlando, FL visiting Disney and Universal studios.

RFE: By mid-April, Larry called me to congratulate. My petition - even though considered under general quota - was picked in lottery. I was elated! Two weeks later he informed me that he has received a RFE (Request For Evidence). RFE letter had some 20+ points on which USCIS demanded clarification. From authenticity of Cartesian to proof of sufficient work for the duration of H1B – 3 years, to making sure that I was an authentic student at The College of William & Mary. Graduation was fun. I enjoyed vacation with my family at NYC, bitter sweet moments saying goodbye to my friends and classmates and at the same time running from pillar to post collecting documents from MBA administration in response for my RFE.

Finally, my MBA journey concluded. I had a job and my H1B was picked. All this before graduation and I had my family who saw me walk the aisle in graduation regalia. After a long time life was looking good.

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Case Study – New To Canada

Case Study – New to Canada

People come to Canada from all over the world for a chance at a better life. Sometimes it’s a better job, to be closer to family, or just to live the Canadian dream. No one moves to Canada to accumulate a crushing amount of debt. Sadly, that was what happened to the young man in this case study. 4 Pillars was there to help guide him onto a different path.

Background

Moving to Canada was like a dream come true. It was challenging, of course, but worth it when he arrived in Nova Scotia to start a new life. He had some money saved and took a job working at a local restaurant. Next to his work was a loan company. Thinking of his barren apartment, he decided to apply for a small loan to purchase some furniture. He was surprised when they offered him $8000! What he didn’t realize was that the interest rate was 29.99%. In his current situation it could take him years to pay that back. Before long, the company began looking for payment. They were asking $500/month. This left him with very little money for rent, groceries, and other bills. He reached out to another loan company who offered him another $8000. He took it, thinking that if he could just get ahead a little bit, he would be able to catch up and pay both loans back. Interest kept accruing on both loans until they totalled nearly $18,000.

Far from his family and too embarrassed to ask for their help, he felt hopeless. He saw a post on Facebook about 4 Pillars helping people get out of debt, so he submitted his information online. We contacted him that day to discuss his situation and booked him in to meet with one of our debt relief specialists.

The Plan

Although he was nervous about attending the initial consultation, he was very glad he did. His consultant went over all his options, starting with budgeting all the way through to bankruptcy. Neither of those options made the most sense for him, so we knew it was going to be something in between. Credit counselling could be an option for him but would have him paying back the whole $18,000 plus 5-15% in fees to the credit counselling company. The interest would be reduced, but he would be paying an extra $900-2700 on top of the principal he owed. On the other hand, a consumer proposal would reduce his debt to a more manageable amount while still eliminating interest.

Both credit counselling and a consumer proposal would hurt his credit, so he opted for the method that would reduce his debt as well. A consumer proposal structured with the assistance of 4 Pillars would reduce his debt to $9000 with a monthly payment of $150. A huge drop from the $500/month payments his creditors were looking for! He left the office already feeling better about his situation.

Results

Once accepted by his creditors, this client was in a payment plan he could actually afford. There was an end in sight knowing that the debt would be paid off in 5 years (or sooner!). According to Statistics Canada, there is no evidence that immigrant families are any more likely than Canadian-born families to use payday loans. Similarly, recent immigrants pay off their credit cards at the end of each month to the same extent as people who were born here. The one area that new Canadians seem to fall behind in is accessing registered savings plans. Fortunately, part of the 4 Pillars aftercare process is setting goals to work towards.

One of this client’s goals was to set aside some money every month so he would have savings to rely on in the future. Once he was ready, he set up a TFSA for shorter-term goals and an RRSP for the long-term goal of being able to retire. This left him feeling in control of his finances and ready for the future.

Conclusion

Everyone who moves to a new country does so in the hopes of making their life better. No one moves across the world with the expectation that their situation will worsen. Debt can become an issue that makes living in a new country so much harder. Regardless of if you recently moved to Canada or have lived here all your life, 4 Pillars offers non-judgemental answers to your debt questions and guidance on what your next steps should be. Check out our 4 Pillars Halifax YouTube channel for more information or give us a call at 902-482-9748.

This article was written by David Moffatt. A Senior Debt Relief Specialist with 4 Pillars Halifax. 4 Pillars has assisted in creating plans that have helped save Canadians over $1 Billion dollars of consumer and tax debt since 2002. We believe that no consumer should have to struggle with the stress of overwhelming debt. Our debt restructuring plans can help you cut your debt by up to 80% with less than 3% of our clients ever getting into deep financial difficulties again. If you are struggling with debt please reach out. It hurts to continue to suffer financially.

4 Pillars Halifax services Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville and the entirety of HRM.

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Tariffs, Pardons, Italy: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

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Good evening. Here’s the latest.

1. U.S. tariffs are set to go into effect at midnight on metals imported from the country’s closest allies: the European Union, Canada and Mexico.

Retaliatory trade moves have already been announced, and diplomatic ties are certain to be strained. Combined with similar measures being prepared by earlier tariff targets — China, Russia and Turkey — the impact of retaliation could be severe. Above, steel coils in Germany.

3. Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative commentator who pleaded guilty in 2014 to making illegal campaign contributions, received a presidential pardon.

President Trump said he was also considering commuting the sentence of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, who was imprisoned on corruption charges, and pardoning Martha Stewart, who served a prison sentence for lying to investigators about a stock sale.

All three cases involve prosecutors Mr. Trump now considers enemies.

Separately, the TBS late-night host Samantha Bee apologized for using a slur against Ivanka Trump during a segment on immigration.

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4. Candidates across the country are sidestepping the news media and taking their message straight to voters.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, above, is live-streaming town hall meetings. Other politicians are doing podcasts, running local news sites and using Facebook Live and other social media.

The method has obvious appeal: Politicians can appear accessible, but remain insulated from the press.

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5. We’ve been hearing a lot about reform in Saudi Arabia, like opening movie theaters and letting women drive.

Turns out those measures are part of a plan the parent company of Cambridge Analytica helped the Saudi royal family craft. (That’s the firm that had worked for the Trump campaign and closed after revelations that it mishandled Facebook data.)

Their purpose: to manage a young and restive population as oil prices fell. One consultant described the effort as “Machiavellian.” Above, the kingdom’s powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

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Nearly a million Rohingya fled horrific violence in Myanmar last year and settled in what has become the world’s largest refugee settlement. It’s a makeshift jumble of rickety homes at high risk of flooding, landslides and disease.

Our video journalist went to the areas at greatest danger of being swept away and created this report to show you how people are trying to fortify before the rains.

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7. After a seesaw week that unnerved financial markets, Italy’s president gave a coalition of populist parties the green light to form a government.

That puts Europe’s fourth-largest economy in the hands of leaders who are deeply antagonistic to the European Union, its currency and illegal migrants. Above, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, left, with the president, Sergio Mattarella.

European leaders in Brussels, already worried about Poland and Hungary, now fear a threat to European unity from within its core.

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8. It’s the Hooters model in the N.F.L.

The Houston Texans, the New England Patriots, the New Orleans Saints and the Washington Redskins are among the teams that deploy alternate cheerleaders — ones who don’t actually cheer — to charm male fans in the stands.

We talked to a dozen women who’ve done it, including Jackie Chambers, above. They described low wages, demeaning conditions and harassment.

“We were just low-paid, underappreciated, exploited moneymakers in a huge moneymaking scheme,” one said.

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9. The Golden State Warriors meet the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight in Game 1 of the N.B.A. championship. Our experts weigh in on what’s at stake.

“The reason this series will be different is that it’ll be less competitive,” our reporter posits. “The talent just isn’t there for the Cavaliers, even with LeBron.”

You can see if he’s right at 9 p.m. Eastern on ABC, and we’ll have live coverage.

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10. Finally, for the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as commencement speakers.

In honor of the milestone, our gender editor, Jessica Bennett, put together snippets from a few of her favorite graduation speeches by notable women, including the one Shonda Rimes gave at Dartmouth in 2014.

“Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams,” she said.

“Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”

Have a great night.

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Tariffs, Pardons, Italy: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)

Good evening. Here’s the latest.

1. U.S. tariffs are set to go into effect at midnight on metals imported from the country’s closest allies: the European Union, Canada and Mexico.

3. Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative commentator who pleaded guilty in 2014 to making illegal campaign contributions, received a presidential pardon.

All three cases involve prosecutors Mr. Trump now considers enemies.

Separately, the TBS late-night host Samantha Bee apologized for using a slur against Ivanka Trump during a segment on immigration.

____

4. Candidates across the country are sidestepping the news media and taking their message straight to voters.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, above, is live-streaming town hall meetings. Other politicians are doing podcasts, running local news sites and using Facebook Live and other social media.

The method has obvious appeal: Politicians can appear accessible, but remain insulated from the press.

____

5. We’ve been hearing a lot about reform in Saudi Arabia, like opening movie theaters and letting women drive.

____

Our video journalist went to the areas at greatest danger of being swept away and created this report to show you how people are trying to fortify before the rains.

____

7. After a seesaw week that unnerved financial markets, Italy’s president gave a coalition of populist parties the green light to form a government.

European leaders in Brussels, already worried about Poland and Hungary, now fear a threat to European unity from within its core.

____

8. It’s the Hooters model in the N.F.L.

We talked to a dozen women who’ve done it, including Jackie Chambers, above. They described low wages, demeaning conditions and harassment.

“We were just low-paid, underappreciated, exploited moneymakers in a huge moneymaking scheme,” one said.

____

9. The Golden State Warriors meet the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight in Game 1 of the N.B.A. championship. Our experts weigh in on what’s at stake.

“The reason this series will be different is that it’ll be less competitive,” our reporter posits. “The talent just isn’t there for the Cavaliers, even with LeBron.”

You can see if he’s right at 9 p.m. Eastern on ABC, and we’ll have live coverage.

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10. Finally, for the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as commencement speakers.

“Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams,” she said.

“Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.”

Have a great night.

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Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern.

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Marcelino Garcia is an attorney with an expertise in local and international governments, healthcare and community affairs. He is a public servant who has spent years helping people address their legal difficulties through his public interest law work. He also works arduously to bring resources to communities and people to ensure their economic and health development.

Currently, Marcelino is the Director of Community Affairs for the Cook County Health & Hospitals System, the nation’s third largest public health system. He is also a Partner with Overseas Strategies, LLC an international business development consulting firm that helps small and medium sized companies with the logistics of import and export and market development.

An attorney by training, he is devoted to public service having worked in leadership roles at not-for-profits and governmental entities. Through his legal work at the Chicago Legal Clinic, he was able to help clients deal with mortgage foreclosures, domestic relations, bankruptcy, and immigration matters. As a legislative liaison at the Chicago Park District, he witnessed first-hand the harmful effects that water can have on communities’ health when not treated properly. He understands the value of conservation and preserving resources and the environment.

Marcelino worked with management and budgets at the State of Illinois to ensure that entities run properly and to avoid waste at all cost. His work also focuses on ensuring that Chicago and Cook County are recognized as a true international city with the many different business and cultural attributes that the city and region have to offer. Marcelino has many years of international business development experience having worked as Senior Manager of International Relations for Chicago 2016 the Olympic Candidacy Committee and as Assistant Managing Director of the Illinois Office of Trade and Investment (OTI) where he worked with Illinois companies looking to export to new markets in the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.

Marcelino is a licensed attorney in the State of Illinois and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He earned his J.D. from Northwestern University and his Bachelor's Degree from Dartmouth College. He is fluent in English and Spanish and is proficient in French, Italian, and Portuguese. An avid traveler, as he likes to visit new and interesting places to experience the world’s societies. He is an avid skier, swimmer and gourmand and enjoys interacting with people from all over the world.

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Enjoy the Benefits of Scholarships during Overseas Education in USA

Now the Education process is made available for international students through scholarships.

Students having dreams and vision are considered to be nation’s future. As the saying goes on, where there is no vision the people perish. But finances sometimes act as deciding factors with overseas education. When the student’s dreams are hampered due to financial conditions it wrecks their course of life and impacts them largely to become less potential with their studies. Studying abroad enhances their dreams and vision. Here is Southern New Hampshire University nestled lavishly on 300 acre wooded land and is located in Northeastern United States. The important features of SNHU are

Five miles away from Manchester

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Best university for abroad internships and to gear up one’s career

Campus is an hour’s drive from beaches, lakes, rivers and mountains with hiking trails and ski slopes

Study and exploration of education abroad as well as exploring the nature goes hand-in-hand for anyone who wants to enjoy an adventurous life with overseas education in USA.

There are certain Universities in USA that do not require GRE or SAT Exams and still provide scholarships for the merited students and qualifying the eligibility criteria.

Students seeking an admission to SNHU are eligible for merit-based scholarships in overseas education in USA. Students who wish to be granted with scholarship should fill the application form for consideration before 30days of the beginning of the term of enrollment. Many Universities in USA are entitled with different scholarships and some of them are merit-based and others are based on financial capacities. A few scholarships offered by SNHU are

Charles and Barbara Bickford international Scholarship

Biesek/Smith Scholarship

Hassa Jadvani Memorial scholarship

Li Xu Scholarship fund

Michigan State University International Scholarships

New York University Wagner Scholarships

Foreign Fulbright student program

Oregon University Scholarships

Wesleyan University Scholarships

University of West Scholarships

Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship Program

Iowa State University International Merit Scholarship

Illinois Wesleyan University Scholarships

East West Center

Dartmouth College Scholarships

Applications for all the above scholarships from SNHU will be made available from January.

Student employment: During education in USA any merited full time student will have an opportunity to work on campus and SNHU made it for a maximum of 20 hours per week which rewards covering a few necessary requirements, but cannot serve as a source to survive with finances during education in USA.

Resident Assistant: The job opening will be made available periodically which require the candidate to be residing in campus residence hall and assist students on the floor. Resident assistant position benefits the candidate who grabs the opportunity in many ways. Scholarships, Stipend and decreased rent amount of the accommodation are some of the benefits for RA during education in USA.

Athletic Scholarships: The scholarships for Study Abroad in USA are available for best performed athletes in foot ball, soft ball, tennis, base ball, Volley ball, basket ball and others. But the amount of scholarship will be decided by the coach of the particular Universities of USA.

International Student Loan Program: Family or friends being green card holders willing to sign as a guarantor will help the student avail the full cost of the course and the loan tenure will be not less than 25 years to fulfill the desire of the student for education in USA.

Know your eligibility to avail scholarship as a student in relation to your choicest course and University of USA offering Scholarship, get more information regarding education in USA, Scholarship programs, eligibility criteria with academic courses and guidance for visa process contact Global Tree Overseas Education and Immigration Consultants who are certified immigrant consultants with 14 branches across India.

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WASHINGTON — Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant here, likes to tell his clients that there are “three keys to credibility.”

“One, never defend the indefensible,” he says. “Two, never deny the undeniable. And No. 3 is: Never lie.”

Would that politicians took his advice.

Fabrications have long been a part of American politics. Politicians lie to puff themselves up, to burnish their résumés and to cover up misdeeds, including sexual affairs. (See: Bill Clinton.) Sometimes they cite false information for what they believe are justifiable policy reasons. (See: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.)

But President Trump, historians and consultants in both political parties agree, appears to have taken what the writer Hannah Arendt once called“the conflict between truth and politics” to an entirely new level.

From his days peddling the false notion that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya, to his inflated claims about how many people attended his inauguration, to his description just last week of receiving two phone calls — one from the president of Mexico and another from the head of the Boy Scouts — that never happened, Mr. Trump is trafficking in hyperbole, distortion and fabrication on practically a daily basis.

In part, this represents yet another way that Mr. Trump is operating on his own terms, but it also reflects a broader decline in standards of truth for political discourse. A look at politicians over the past half-century makes it clear that lying in office did not begin with Donald J. Trump. Still, the scope of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods raises questions about whether the brakes on straying from the truth and the consequences for politicians’ being caught saying things that just are not true have diminished over time.

One of the first modern presidents to wrestle publicly with a lie was Dwight D. Eisenhower in May 1960, when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.

The Eisenhower administration lied to the public about the plane and its mission, claiming it was a weather aircraft. But when the Soviets announced that the pilot had been captured alive, Eisenhower reluctantly acknowledged that the plane had been on an intelligence mission — an admission that shook him badly, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said.

“He just felt that his credibility was such an important part of his person and character, and to have that undermined by having to tell a lie was one of the deepest regrets of his presidency,” Ms. Goodwin said.

In the short run, Eisenhower was hurt; a summit meeting with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev collapsed in acrimony. But the public eventually forgave him, Ms. Goodwin said, because he owned up to his mistake.

In 1972, at the height of the Watergate scandal, President Richard M. Nixon was accused of lying, obstructing justice and misusing the Internal Revenue Service, among other agencies, and resigned rather than face impeachment. Voters, accustomed to being able to trust politicians, were disgusted. In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the presidency after telling the public, “I’ll never lie to you.”

President Clinton was impeached for perjury and obstruction in trying to cover up his affair with an intern, Monica Lewinsky, during legal proceedings. Chris Lehane, a former Clinton adviser, said Mr. Clinton’s second-term agenda suffered during his impeachment, yet paradoxically his favorability ratings remained high — in part, Mr. Lehane said, because “the public distinguished between Clinton the private person and the public person.”

But sometimes it’s easier to tell what’s false than what’s a lie. President George W. Bush faced accusations that he and members of his administration took America to war in Iraq based on false intelligence about whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Bush and his team emphasized and in some cases exaggerated elements of the intelligence that bolstered the case while disregarding dissenting information, leading critics to accuse them of lying. Among those who said Mr. Bush had lied was Mr. Trump.

Over the past two decades, institutional changes in American politics have made it easier for politicians to lie. The proliferation of television political talk shows and the rise of the internet have created a fragmented media environment. With no widely acknowledged media gatekeeper, politicians have an easier time distorting the truth.

And in an era of hyper-partisanship, where politicians often are trying to court voters at the extreme ends of the political spectrum, politicians often lie with impunity. Even the use of the word “lie” in politics has changed.

“There was a time not long ago when you could not use the word ‘lie’ in a campaign,” said Anita Dunn, once a communications director to Mr. Obama. “It was thought to be too harsh, and it would backfire. So you had to say they hadn’t been honest, or they didn’t tell the truth, or the facts show something else, and even that was seen as hot rhetoric.”

With the rise of fact-checking websites, politicians are held accountable for their words. In 2013, the website PolitiFact declared that Mr. Obama had uttered the “lie of the year” when he told Americans that if they liked their health care plan they could keep it. (Mr. Trump won “lie of the year” in 2015.)

“I thought it was unfair at the time, and I still think it’s unfair,” Ms. Dunn said, referring to Mr. Obama. Mr. Obama later apologized to people who were forced off their plans “despite assurances from me.”

On the theory that politicians who get caught in lies put their reputations at risk, Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College (and contributor to The New York Times’s Upshot) and some colleagues tried to study the effects of Mr. Trump’s misstatements during last year’s presidential campaign.

In a controlled experiment, researchers showed a group of voters a misleading claim by Mr. Trump, while another group saw that claim accompanied by “corrective information” that directly contradicted what Mr. Trump had said. The group that viewed the corrections believed the new information, but seeing it did not change how they viewed Mr. Trump.

“We know politicians are risk averse. They try to minimize negative coverage, and that negative coverage could damage their image over time,” Mr. Nyhan said. “But the reputational consequences of making false claims aren’t strong enough. They’re not sufficiently strong to dissuade people from misleading the public.”

Of course, lying to court voters is one thing, and lying to federal prosecutors quite another. When Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, was accused of a long list of federal corruption counts related to claims that he tried to sell Mr. Obama’s seat in the United States Senate, he was asked quite directly about lying.

While Mr. Blagojevich was testifying under oath, a prosecutor pressed him on whether he made a habit, as a politician, of lying to the public. They sparred over whether Mr. Blagojevich had fed a misleading story to a local newspaper.

“That was a lie,” the prosecutor, Reid Schar, was quoted as saying.

Mr. Blagojevich refused to fess up. “That was a misdirection play in politics,” he answered.

He was sentenced to a 14-year prison term in 2011.

Joel Sawyer, a Republican strategist in South Carolina, said there were two ways for a politician to deal with deceit.

“One is to never acknowledge it, which seems to have been employed pretty successfully by our current president,” Mr. Sawyer said. “The second is to rip the Band-Aid off and say: ‘I screwed up; here’s why. Give me another chance, and I won’t disappoint you again.’”

Mr. Sawyer worked for a politician — Mark Sanford, then the governor of South Carolina — who took the latter approach. On a June weekend in 2009, Mr. Sanford slipped out of the South Carolina capitol and flew to Buenos Aires to be with his lover, but told his staff that he had gone hiking on the Appalachian Trail. His aides, including Mr. Sawyer, unknowingly passed the lie on to reporters.

Mr. Sanford later apologized profusely. Voters eventually rewarded him; today he serves in Congress.

Many of Mr. Trump’s lies — like the time he boasted that he had made the “all-time record in the history of Time Magazine” for being on its cover so often — are somewhat trivial, and “basically about him polishing his ego,” said John Weaver, a prominent Republican strategist.

That mystifies Bob Ney, a Republican former congressman who spent time in prison for accepting illegal gifts from a lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, and lying to federal investigators about it. “It really baffles me why he has to feel compelled to exaggerate to exonerate himself,” Mr. Ney said.

But other presidential lies, like Mr. Trump’s false claim that millions of undocumented immigrants had cast ballots for his opponent in the 2016 election, are far more substantive, and pose a threat, scholars say, that his administration will build policies around them.

The glaring difference between Mr. Trump and his predecessors is the sheer magnitude of falsehoods and exaggerations; PolitiFact rates just 20 percent of the statements it reviewed as true, and a total of 69 percent either mostly false, false or “Pants on Fire.” That leaves scholars like Ms. Goodwin to wonder whether Mr. Trump, in elevating the art of political fabrication, has forever changed what Americans are willing to tolerate from their leaders.

“What’s different today and what’s scarier today is these lies are pointed out, and there’s evidence that they’re wrong,” she said. “And yet because of the attacks on the media, there are a percentage of people in the country who are willing to say, ‘Maybe he is telling the truth.”

#US #trump #lies #liar-in-chief #he wouldn't be able to tell the truth even if it smashed him in the face #but you can only lie for so long #they're just stacking up against him and you better believe that people are keeping score #notmypresident #resist

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At USC, a Hindu lawyer leads the spiritual way Varun Soni is one of a few to break the Protestant chaplain mold VARUN SONI, dean of religious life at USC, speaks during a service honoring professor Bosco Tjan, who was killed in December. (Photographs by Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times) SONI, middle, Father Richard Sunwoo, left, of USC’s Caruso Catholic Center and the Rev. James Burklo, associate dean of religious life, embrace at the ceremony for Tjan. () By Rosanna Xia Varun Soni straightened his shoulders and grasped the lectern, his dark suit flanked by the stately white robes of priests and ministers. A beloved professor had been stabbed to death. As USC’s head chaplain, it fell to Soni to help the hundreds gathered outside that day to process their loss. And so he spoke to them of the stories he’d collected, the pain he’d shared, the grief he had witnessed. And he offered words to help them, though not from the Bible or any other religious text. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel,” he said, quoting Maya Angelou, before he bowed his head in a universal “Amen.” Soni is an unusual college chaplain. He is a Hindu. He has a law degree. In 2008, when USC hired him as its dean of religious life, he was the sole head chaplain at a major American university who was not only not a Christian but not an ordained Christian at that. Today, at a time when differences — religious and otherwise — grow ever more fraught and complex, he remains all but alone in breaking the Protestant chaplain mold, except for a rabbi at Dartmouth, another at Wesleyan, a Buddhist at Emerson. “It’s very, very hard to divorce the pomp and circumstances of academia from particularly Protestant traditions,” said Dena Bodian, president of the National Assn. of College and University Chaplains. “Chaplains like Varun enable us all to rethink what chaplaincy in higher ed could look like.” The job, after all, is about much more than Christianity. As USC’s spiritual leader and moral voice, Soni oversees about 90 campus religious groups including atheists and agnostics, Baha’is and Zoroastrians. Inside and outside the lecture halls and dormitories, he bridges what he sees as the gap between the slow-moving wheels of academic change and a new generation’s impatience with tradition. He counters the tendency to split apart and subdivide with a message of tolerance, coexistence and respect. “If we want to know what religion is going to look like in the United States in 20 years, just look at what’s happening on college campuses now,” he said. “Particularly at a time when our country is so polarized, and people aren’t speaking to each other.” Soni himself exemplifies the many in the one. He holds five degrees — from Harvard Divinity School, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA’s law school and the University of Cape Town, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation in religious studies on Bob Marley as a spiritual figure who used his work to spread a divine message. As an undergraduate at Tufts University, Soni studied in India at Bodh Gaya, where Buddha attained enlightenment. He’s consulted for the Obama administration, produced a graphic novel and advises celebrity religious scholar Reza Aslan. The son of immigrant doctors, he was raised in Newport Beach, where he went to a Catholic elementary school and learned from his best friends, who were Jewish, and his grandfather, a Buddhist who grew up around Mahatma Gandhi. “Gandhi, that’s why I went to law school and studied religion,” Soni said, nodding to a framed portrait hung alongside the Dalai Lama and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his office. “Those are my guys — people who brought together the spiritual and the scholarly world for the purposes of social change.” What better place to bridge these two worlds than a college campus? It’s not easy, Soni acknowledged, to guide a generation that grew up seeing religion as a source of terrorism and patriarchy, whose institutions covered up child abuse and preached discrimination. More and more millennials are rejecting formal religion but seeking a spiritual sense of purpose. It helps that Soni’s approach centers more on commonality than God. “We’re oriented around meaning and purpose and authenticity and identity and significance,” he said. “My concern is that as students leave traditional religious congregations, they haven’t been taught how to build an intentional community of like-minded people in a way that creates empathy and compassion and a sense of belonging. That’s compounded by the fact that this is a generation that was born into technology.… You may have 500 friends on Facebook, but what does that mean in real life?” Around campus, he’s facilitated interfaith retreats, promoted LGBTQ Bible studies and taught courses on misunderstood religions such as Islam and Sikhism. “My programming is my pulpit,” he likes to say. After the Trump administration announced a travel ban that alienated Muslims, his phone rang nonstop. Empowered by Soni’s inclusive approach, dozens of students, professors and religious leaders rallied alongside their Muslim peers and attended a local mosque, where they joined in the midday Juma’h prayer. “Varun does a good job of keeping us moving in the same direction,” said Dov Wagner, a rabbi at USC. Soni, who is 42, could be mistaken for a graduate student. His hair is cut in a fade. He often teaches in jeans. He knows how to speak to a generation used to abbreviations and hashtags. One afternoon, he walked his students through the religious history of northern India’s Punjab, where his family is from. He rolled up his sleeve to show them his Sikh kara , a delicate steel bracelet he has worn since his mother gave it to him when he was small. “Traditionally, these are much thicker and protected one’s wrist when you went to war,” he said, attempting to mimic a sword fight with his hands. “Luckily, my days of swordplay are over.” After class, one student came up and said he was Punjabi as well, then shyly reached out for a handshake. “Right on, Pun-ja-bis!” Soni cheered. Soni tries hard to reach everyone. As a way to include students who don’t believe in God, for instance, he hired a “humanist chaplain” to collaborate with other religious leaders on campus. “Because of Varun, these other chaplains aren’t threatened by me,” said Bart Campolo, who uses his skills as a former pastor to guide students in a secular way. “I’m not here to attack anybody’s belief system. They realize I’m just another guy trying to help students answer life’s ultimate questions.” Eugenia Huang, whose father died a week before she went off to college, said she was grateful to encounter Soni at a freshman dinner, at which he urged students to feel free to come talk to him. “I really liked the idea that he was about spirituality, instead of forcing any religion down my throat,” Huang said. “You often see people turn to religion when they’re sick or experiencing pain, and so I had always viewed it as something for the weak.” Now a sophomore, she is taking Soni’s global religions course, which has changed her thinking: “I’m learning that a lot of the times, people turn to religion for the community and they just want to know: What’s our purpose?” Soni also has inspired a number of non-Christian students to pursue careers in religious leadership. Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago has led the way in bringing college students of different faiths together. Founder Eboo Patel speaks of students who’ve learned from Soni as if they’re top players in a fantasy draft. The Buddhist who went to multiple divinity schools in order to one day be a campus chaplain like Soni. The Muslim doctor who is studying religious diversity as it applies to healthcare. “You don’t get interested in that unless you’re influenced by somebody like Varun,” Patel said. “Now multiply that by 25 or 50 young people a year, and multiply that by 10 or 15 years, and think about the number of people who are going into everything from diplomacy to chaplaincy to medicine to business who have a really refined sense of religious diversity.” As an ever more diverse group of religious leaders seeks positions on ever more diverse campuses, universities will need to let go of outdated assumptions about what a head chaplain should look like, said Adeel Zeb, the imam at the Claremont Colleges. “We’re at a crossroads,” said Zeb, who was elected recently as the first Muslim to lead the national group of college chaplains. “If you start defining a chaplain as a spiritual healer, an ethical leader and emotional healer on campus, regardless of anyone’s faith traditions, if you start focusing on the human emotions and the human spirit, it enables more diverse possibilities.” One day in February, dozens of USC religious leaders of many faiths gathered in a conference room next to Soni’s office. It was their first all-chaplain meeting since President Trump’s inauguration, and each came troubled by anxieties many of their students were feeling. Soni sat back and listened to his colleagues — Episcopalian, Catholic, Mormon, Buddhist, Jewish — weigh in on the hatred unleashed by the recent political rhetoric. “So what should our role be, running our different groups on campus?” Soni asked. “Is an attack on one religion an attack on all religions?” Campolo, the humanist chaplain, brought up the words of German Pastor Martin Niemoller, familiar to everyone in the room: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me. A fellow pastor led the group in a prayer. They stood in a circle, raised their right hands toward Soni and vowed as one to lead their communities on the path they all shared. [email protected]

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The Once-Urgent Travel Ban Keeps Getting Postponed

Protestors demonstrate against the president's travel ban at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 29. A new version of the order has been delayed multiple times. tani.P / Flickr

Skift Take: The travel industry is hoping that whatever version of the ban eventually gets signed will cause less damage to America's image as a welcoming destination. In the meantime, there's still uncertainty for potential travelers.

— Hannah Sampson

President Donald Trump was barely in office when he signed an executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations. There was not a moment to waste, he said, because any delay would allow the “bad dudes” to rush into the U.S.

Then federal courts struck down his ban. The White House said a new version would be coming.

That was a month ago. The urgency seems to have faded.

There has been no further legal appeal. And announcement of a replacement order has been repeatedly postponed, a reflection of legal difficulties, shifting administration priorities and politics. It now won’t be unveiled until next week at the earliest, says a White House official.

“The holdup flies in the face of the mythology as to why they needed to rush the bill in the first place,” said Doris Meissner, who was head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for President Bill Clinton. “It was a contrived argument and a reflection of inexperience and a rush to fulfill a campaign promise.”

The delay stands in stark contrast to the ban’s rollout, a swift action designed as the centerpiece of a barrage of executive orders to set a bold tone for the Trump administration’s first days.

Trump signed it late on a Friday afternoon, prompting widespread protests at the nation’s airports while hardening battle lines between the president’s supporters and opponents. But the rushed order, composed with little outside consultation, drew fierce bipartisan criticism as federal agencies, foreign governments and travelers were left confused to its contents, creating chaos at airports and leaving the White House to defend the rollout by saying that its speed was necessary.

“If we waited five days, 10 days, six months to begin establishing the first series of controls, we would be leaving the homeland unnecessarily vulnerable,” said senior policy adviser Stephen Miller who, along with chief strategist Steve Bannon, was the architect of the ban.

But the unveiling of a new order has been postponed at least three times since then, and the White House has shifted its tone on the ban — in part by not talking about it.

Shifting priorities, Trump has spent more time at events meant to boost his economic agenda and on Thursday appeared on an aircraft carrier to tout his plans for a military buildup. During his first speech to Congress on Tuesday, he did not specifically mention the ban, merely saying that the administration “will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe.”

After Trump received high marks for that speech, aides scuttled plans to sign the new travel ban the next day, not wanting the controversial measure to overtake some of the best headlines of the young administration.

Moreover, public opinion has shifted against the ban. A Quinnipiac poll conducted in early January, before details were known, found that Americans supported “suspending immigration from ‘terror prone’ regions” by 48 percent to 42 percent.

But a follow-up poll after the ban was implemented found a 12 point net swing against the idea of a travel ban.

“This didn’t go right the first time: The optics at the airports were bad and constituents flooded their lawmakers with calls,” said Linda Fowler, professor of government at Dartmouth College. “The White House must know it has to get it exactly right this time. When this ban is released, more lawsuits are coming. To lose a second time would be devastating.”

Government lawyers who defended the ban in court the first time made its speed a crucial part of their argument. August Flentje, special counsel to the U.S. attorney general, told judges on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the need to quickly enforce the ban prevented the administration from gathering evidence that citizens from the seven countries, including refugees, pose a serious threat of terrorism, a claim the judges did not buy.

When the court rejected the ban, the White House vowed to immediately and simultaneously appeal the decision and craft a new order, though Trump later acknowledged that delaying the first order might have helped it surmount legal challenges.

“Now if I would’ve done it in a month, everything would have been perfect,” the president said in mid-February. “The problem is we would have wasted a lot of time, and maybe a lot of lives because a lot of bad people would have come into our country.”

But the government didn’t pursue its appeal. And the Pentagon and State Department have fought the White House about which countries should be included in the plan. And weeks have passed without the release of the new order, even though White House press secretary Sean Spicer said last week it was “finalized.”

The next rollout, he said, would be “flawless.”

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This article was written by Jonathan Lemire from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to [email protected].

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