By Vianney (Sam) Carriere on October 1, 2008
I am fascinated by things that I struggle to understand, elusive things that don’t quite present enough mystery to be completely impenetrable and yet that hide from me a complete assimilation of what they are. I am of a generation that recalls the cult novel by Robert Heinlein called Stranger in a Strange Land and [...]
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Posted in Fall 2008
By Vianney (Sam) Carriere on February 1, 2005
This is about communication, silence and lost opportunities. Putting words into the mouth of someone else, let alone the resident CEO is a task that a communications underling approaches with some trepidation and not a small measure of due consideration. So it was that when I recently crafted a statement on behalf of the Primate [...]
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Posted in Winter 2005 | Tagged editorial
By Vianney (Sam) Carriere on September 1, 2003
There are people who spend their lives walking a thin divide between something they strive to present to the world—a carefully nurtured persona—and what they really are.
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Posted in Fall 2003
By Vianney (Sam) Carriere on May 1, 2000
On a winter afternoon in Toronto not that long ago, a series of shots rang out in a high school parking lot and when the confusion had cleared, three young people lay in the snow with bullet wounds. Several days later, a newspaper sent a reporter out to the same schoolyard to ask some of [...]
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Posted in Spring 2000