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Julius Erving
The Great and Wondrous Dr. J
When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight. Sometimes there's only a little bit of daylight between two players, and you'd find a way to get the ball between those two bodies and you make something happen. Having good peripheral vision, I would always see daylight. Maybe I could see daylight that a lot of other players couldn't see. I see a lot of extraordinary players today, Jordan and Drexler and what have you. They see daylight where other players don't see that daylight. They see a body there, and they don't want to challenge that body, and they just don't see the daylight. So, that's a great optic option to have. The flamboyance wasn't intentional. The approach was result-oriented, more than reaction-oriented. Trying to get the results -- stop the team on defense anyway you can: block a shot, steal a ball, force a turnover. Offensively: try to score, set up a teammate to score, keep it very simple. The result was the priority, the effect was an added bonus, I guess. That was part of the gift, the blessing. Once it became very sensible business-wise, if you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
I think part of it was that I saw just how many different groups had been in and out of Haiti over the years. I knew they were well-meaning, even if I was -- as sometimes young people are -- I'm sure I was hypercritical. That's okay. Everybody's a critic, and like I said, the diagnosis is easy and cheap to make, right? You know, you see all this aid money going in to Haiti. This is -- I'm talking about the '80s. Haiti's still in trouble. It's easy to say, "Gee, there's a problem here." There is a problem with the effectiveness of the aid, and there were missionary groups, and there were short-term medical missions, and there were tons of people from the United States and Europe. So I think back, then I said, "Well, we need to have long-term partnerships," hence the name. It's not gonna be someone coming from the United States, into Haiti saying, "Do this, do that." It's really about partnerships. So in many senses, certainly the idea for doing that came from Haiti, but also the start was in Haiti.
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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
We knew that these were transnational epidemics, transregional, globalized epidemics. The same is true for lots of other pathogens. We knew that, but the question was, "How could we be effective?" And the way that we got started was working with the Open Society Institute, which George Soros founded. And then the Gates Foundation, in one of their first major delivery grants, started supporting our work in Peru. And we went back and said, "Look, you know, there's a very big problem in Russia as well. Do you think we could help there?" So we ended up re-formulating our support for the Peru project, to support Peru and Russia, to really scale it up in Russia. So yes, in a way that was an acknowledgement of what we always knew to be a globalized problem. How could it be otherwise? it's an airborne disease, so it's going to spread, globally, just like swine flu or SARS.
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Paul Farmer
Founder, Partners in Health
Paul Farmer: Well, I think that if I define my field as infectious disease, I'd say community-based care for chronic infectious disease, or new therapeutics are in the pipeline. If I define my field as public health, I would say strengthening health systems, right? But if I define my field more broadly, as development and social progress, I would say the biggest developments are going to be bringing together a growing movement around social justice, and linking that to the growing movement for environmental justice. I think once these things come together, that we're going to see a lot of social progress in the planet. So yeah, any of those. That's all optimism for you.
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Suzanne Farrell
Ballerina Extraordinaire
Suzanne Farrell: My feelings started to change when I realized that dancing was getting inside my body, emotionally, as well as physically. And that it was taking on a whole new dimension, and my life was changing, and I had a performance where I got on stage with an orchestra. At the dress rehearsal, there was no one in the audience, but I suddenly was in the real atmosphere of the theater. I looked out at these empty seats. But I felt all this sort of dust, or feelings of people who had been there before. It was palpable. And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
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Suzanne Farrell
Ballerina Extraordinaire
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world. And yet I think that when you are a performer -- and for me, a dancer -- is when, to me, that is more real. It is not fantasy. It's a certain amount of pretending, and your hard work and your training and your professionalism. But it's more real, because I have spent my life in the theater and on stage, and in the classroom. Far from feeling that it is not the real world, I feel that I see the real world more realistically because I see it clearer when I am dancing.
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