Washington, D.C., Councilman and former Mayor Marion Barry was famously re-elected after going to jail for crack cocaine possession, but started out as a champion for the city's disenfranchised. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
The four-term mayor, who was still serving his third term on the D.C. Council, was famous for fighting for the District's disenfranchised, but won national notoriety after he was caught on FBI video with an ex-girlfriend and crack cocaine in 1990.
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He installed summer jobs programs for youths and home-buying assistance for the working class, and put thousands of blacks in middle- and upper-level city jobs that had once been reserved for whites, Bart Barnes of the Post reports.
This frame from a black-and-white FBI videotape shows Barry allegedly lighting a crack cocaine pipe in a Washington hotel room in 1990. The video was played repeatedly on television newscasts around the world and used as evidence against Barry. Barry Thumma/AP hide caption
In 1990, Barry was caught on a now-infamous video tape by the FBI when an informant with whom he'd had a previous relationship lured him to a Washington hotel room and insisted he smoke crack cocaine.
"The beauty of Marion is that he survived all this and he still deeply cares about the city, definitely deeply cares about the poor people and the middle class in the city," Brandon said. "He can grab your arm and grab your hand and talk to you, and you'll walk away thinking you've been chatting with your best friend."
"Michelle and I were saddened to hear of the passing of Marion Barry. Marion was born a sharecropper's son, came of age during the Civil Rights movement, and became a fixture in D.C. politics for decades. As a leader with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Marion helped advance the cause of civil rights for all. During his decades in elected office in D.C., he put in place historic programs to lift working people out of poverty, expand opportunity, and begin to make real the promise of home rule. Through a storied, at times tumultuous life and career, he earned the love and respect of countless Washingtonians, and Michelle and I extend our deepest sympathies to Marion's family, friends and constituents today."
Each episode follows one or two participants, each of whom has an addiction or other mentally and/or physically damaging problem and believes that they are being filmed for a documentary on their problem. Their situations are actually being documented in anticipation of an intervention by family and/or friends. Episodes typically feature an epilogue or follow-up months later with an update to the addicted person's progress or state.
Epilogue: Kelly walked out of the intervention, but agreed to go to treatment on the condition that he could pick up his dog first. He transferred to another program after 20 days and spent a total of 60 days in treatment, but immediately purchased and drank beer upon leaving, saying that he never wanted to get sober. Five months later, he and his girlfriend had broken up and he had lost his dog again.
Epilogue: Betsy reluctantly agreed to go to treatment along with her boyfriend. However, once they got to the airport, they decided to return home to try to get sober on their own. Betsy tried to contact her family on several occasions, but they refused to talk to her. In June 2006, Betsy entered a treatment facility.
Epilogue: As a condition to get Lauren to agree to go to treatment, Mike, who had a desire to get back into recovery and wanted to be a role model for Lauren, was allowed to move in temporarily with Lauren's family. The show's producers offered to get Mike into treatment in a nearby facility in Pennsylvania; Mike eagerly accepted but had many issues during his second stint in rehab and his relationship with Lauren is strained. Lauren managed to get sober and worked for Oasis, a drug treatment centre, in Anaheim, California until she relapsed in November 2007; she returned to recovery and was sober since January 2008. During Lauren's initial rehab stay, her childhood friend Déa died of a drug overdose. The episode carries a dedication "In Loving Memory of Déa".[6]
Epilogue: Derek was kicked out of treatment after three months for getting drunk and bringing alcohol onto the grounds. He went on a four-day drinking binge, then returned to his home in Ontario. His girlfriend rented a room from him for some time, but eventually moved out after he threatened to hurt himself; he has since attempted suicide several times and is still drinking.
Ed, 53 and Bettina, 49, had a picture-perfect life, including three adoring kids, a dream home, sports cars, motorcycles and a respected place in their church community. But six years ago, Ed made a bad career move and ended up unemployed. He and Bettina lost everything they had worked for. They began to drink and quickly became alcoholics. Ed has been hospitalized for internal bleeding and Bettina for withdrawals so excruciating she thought she was dying. Their children have begged them to stop drinking, but it only strengthens the bond between Ed and Bettina.
Epilogue: Tiffany relapsed six months after treatment. She broke up with her boyfriend and moved into a sober-living facility. Tiffany's mother continues to drink. Tiffany has been sober since November 22, 2009.
Though she initially resisted, Brittney ultimately agreed to go to treatment, but left treatment after 11 days and moved in with her boyfriend where she continues to drink. Her mother is holding her bottom lines.
Courtney, 20, lives in Miami and injects heroin up to eight times a day, prostituting herself to support both her own habit and her boyfriend's. Her mother, sister, and grandmother want her to get help and are ready to use Florida's legal system to force her into it if they have to.
Amanda, 31, abandoned her dreams of becoming a teacher in favor of heavy drinking (four bottles of wine a day) and a heroin addiction. Her boyfriend is also an addict, and her PTSD-afflicted father provides money and support to feed her habits.
Kelly is a 27-year-old mother who turned to drugs to handle the trauma of being sexually abused by her sister's boyfriend when she was 11. Today, Kelly is using meth up to 4 times a day, as well as taking up to 400 mg of OxyContin.
Anil, her customer operations manager, was a strong performer back in the office. Remote work, however, has not been kind to him. Though he claimed to have his tasks under control, with three children under 10 and a wife who also works, things were falling through the cracks. Salespeople had begun to receive complaints from desperate restaurant customers. Orders were arriving incorrectly and late. Since their businesses depend on every order to survive, these mistakes posed a serious threat.
So how can leaders like Robin confront team members who are struggling to successfully work remotely while also remaining sensitive to the times? It requires a broader approach and different skills than many leaders are used to. But there are several ways to learn them:
Mia Freedman's crack-up began on the third morning of a summer holiday at Byron Bay, on the NSW North Coast. As she climbed out of bed, she felt a twinge in her lower abdomen. Ovarian cancer, she decided immediately. She was going to die. How would she break the terrible news to her family? Over the next couple of weeks, while she went through the motions of decorating a Christmas tree and taking her children to the beach, she was overwhelmed by an emotion she now describes as "frantic dread". Her heart raced. Her gut churned. She pictured her funeral in vivid detail.
Freedman, 43, is a digital media entrepreneur. The founder of the Mamamia Women's Network, she publishes four websites aimed at female audiences and says she employs 100 full-time staff - twice as many as a year ago. She is also a writer, specialising in a confessional style of journalism: she has told the world about everything from her miscarriage and her fear of flying to her inability to put anything in an oven without burning it. "I'm a heart-on-my-sleeve girl in every way," she says.
Getting noticed has never been difficult for Freedman. In her 20s, she was the wunderkind editor of the glossy women's magazine Cosmopolitan. In her 30s, she became a widely read newspaper columnist and briefly, disastrously, a television executive. She regularly appears on TV talk shows, where she enlivens debate by seemingly blurting out whatever comes into her head. "She's a raw voice in the media landscape," says Lisa Wilkinson, co-host of the Nine network's Today. "You know you're going to get an absolutely honest version of what she thinks."
Freedman has that effect on some people. "I loved Mia," says a former employee of the Mamamia network. "Idolised her, in fact. I remember reading her book" - Freedman's 2009 autobiography, Mama Mia: A Memoir of Mistakes, Magazines and Motherhood - "and going, 'I want to be this woman. I want to have her entire life.' So I started working there as an intern." She adds a little wistfully that, though she eventually joined the paid staff, she never felt she really belonged. "Mia likes a particular type of person - the very out-there, sparkly, confident kind. And if you have great clothes, that's even better."
I have heard stories of tension and tears in the Mamamia office. "I was always under-appreciated, underpaid and sometimes woefully chewed out for the smallest things," one former staffer tells me. Says another: "It can be a very traumatic experience, emotionally, to work with Mia." But on this Monday morning, the mood seems purposeful and upbeat. A couple of people actually do high-fives after hearing the figures for traffic to the websites over the weekend.
The number of online visitors to the network is reported to have grown by 50 per cent in the past two years. More than 650,000 people a month visit Mamamia, Freedman's original and biggest website (the others are iVillage, The Glow and Debrief Daily). Freedman and her husband, Jason Lavigne, who is chief executive of the business, are planning international expansion. "The focus over the next three years is building a very significant-sized business in the US," says Lavigne, who is quiet and contained. "Our aspiration is to be a global player in women's media." 2ff7e9595c
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