Show romutiPini Monday November 3 2003 A4 The Herald Journal n e Til CBRISTIAN Commentary SCIENCE MONITOR Clothes don’t make man they make his memories : v ' rooks Nonetheless the suits of a lifetime remain They arc my youth my y 'romances and so many good times with wonderful friends They were w ith nie when I shone and when Mailed Who knew my personal histo- ry might return to fashion? There is a black chalk-strip- e two ' buttons center vent It took me to a’ new job where I met the womanl would marry It was sleek and smart ' It fitted like a second skin After I proposed my girl confessed she fell in love with me in that suit: “You looked so wonderful- - Hroihors-vluihiort- luieolnind 1DR (v'gomg haek to - - a ’ a t 1 reniik mg c lassie 'sui Is arid deeules pasi They are irom yoals k style ' ihe'l iil uix' v: tot) a rounds' By Joe Honig For The Christian Science Monitor - B S Tlie aremvStxle Tlviv arc earners huir overcoats ' jsi'd'oit ptijtciais from l‘)5b Sack suits 'from Kehhed's C’ameloi And I oixlpv an lace-up- s' Mating back 50 cars' perfect lor novelist Sloan Wil son’s ‘Man in the (irav l laimcl Suit" ' According to the Nonetheless the papers Brook ' of a lifetime Hrothers is hanking tailoron yesterday’s remain They are mg to outperform V' ? ‘ ' look at that black suit and think of: I being young and con- fident and sure of a bountiful future And suits litoks With somc miklern-da- romances' and so tinkering y ' many good times with wonderful friends They were With me when 5n9ne and when i "fc) 60 ip fit and construe- - 1 recall the woman I ' my' youth my contemporary together’’ ly put who is no longer my wife Funny the suit is now a classic wearing better and longer than the mar- riage Further on there is a tuxedo vintage 1978 Peaked lapels Bullying leaves deep marks ' ' ' ' By ostracizing and condemning oth- The two teenagers are chillingly ' ers one’s own place feels more ' ' secure' giddy about the prospect of firing :' “You can’t stand up for others" ' instead bullets into brains of where Chasnoff eostuhies'trnm u time Debra people’s Livery ProServiceable Still the bowling pins they used as targets w hen one student says “because then ' goes these days people tell her Ipng- ipen collars ' : from moths It that the nearin makes tected buried secrets from middle school arid chihsjuhbie you hope they’ll pick on ypu’’ ' ' ' ' i and ocean air by an w efe more Skid Row If we need any more evidence that Chasnoff always listens: She is a lis- ly five years since the Columbine ' ' : ancient garment bag than Central Madison tenet by nature But she also knows killings adults have become more' ' ' bullying has tragic consequences we ' I dancedin Oh how attuned to the rage that builds inside Aveiiue thereis nouse interrupting Once the got it from a story out of Connecticut “y ' ' '! d With suit kids ri buHied that a and are arid' diswho be last January A j Buy suit Spanish : telling begins time and distance relentlessly Gregory Peck boy ' humiliated at school himseif with a tie in his clos-solve and she can almost smell the beauty at New York’s Colony Club: Wrap ourself in Oxford iloth and hanged With my sister at her wedding to a But Chasnoff iays tqo many parr ' He was an eccentric seventh-gradcrushed Fritosa musty gym shirts ' squint like Jimmy Stewart Who ’ I disliked have man but and strawberry lip gloss of the junior ents and educators still shrug off bul- - er who was tormented by classmates knew 'you could dress like y estergrown tp ' Starlet who ' high hallway admire With a long-ag- o who pushed him off the bleachers day’s WASP warrior and standout in lying as an inevitable part of ' ' ' ‘asked if I knew any decent agents a even rite of a vrov) d Mas be the real conserv'd- him down a stairwell and spit “One woman told me the girl who shoved passage: adojescence ' on him! The boy stopped going io Stopping at a gray pinstripe three bulliedher still shows up as a char- live revolution will be sartorial' Maybe they don't know that 160006 ' ' ' ' To some of us though clothes acterin her dreams" Chasnoff said school and his mother who worked ' ' pieces with vest think of a chill kjds stay home frbmschool every in the 980s A bake his because fear bullied restau-steady January day : day 60 hours'a week refused to send him ' don't make the man They over salad at a San Francisco being they v Education' until she had assurances that he blocks' from her studio according tp ' ' ' Association Or that bullying has would be safe you ' ' been linked to 75 percent of school to Instead of investigating why the ' ' e dressed hurriedly that junior high v BriHiks w ith thy occasrpnal j Press school did little to protect the boy '4 shooting incidents a US Secret ' i report says jacket atul Etiglish shoes going backflmdrainghever'iuieW why ! chose prosecutors put the mother on trial' 'Tp y0u don’t withthat suit Now J can’t look at ft That’s why Chasnoff chose bully- almost 3() years txpensive stuff hut think about : Earlier this month a jury convicted it wore like iron' Here social :y her of contributing to her son’s death p ing for tier hew film though she your " " knows much has been written and studies efiss' by keeping an 'unsafe and unhealthy the on think the since home Nevertheless the boy’s sui- lopic produced ' Columbine shootings: What sets’ cide prompted Conriecticut to pass 9 who” Chasnoff ’s film apart Ls the students law requiring school staff tp report you - voices She lets them tell their stories of bullying casts against the ' ' lockers or what someone said to you : straight to the camera They are “There’s so much pressure on : V on'the'bus:-impossible to ignore': around testing arid acade- ' 'v1 they jet any of their own reporters A hioy named Brian says in the Iriiics that they don’t have enough ChasnolTisanAcademy Awardexamine my infiirmation or check on winning fijmmaker whose stature film he was called a “fag” about SO time to pay attentiori to what's V times the first week of school It hap her allows documentaries make to in halls and playgrounds" ' i ‘'4 Tolhe editor: ' about all day in every class: relent-- 1 For chooses ' she the former deputy superin- Der pened ' anything Henry ' A couple of y'ciirs ago when the ' to make- " lessly she decade has chosen tendent of instruction for the past public Cand on also price olvgasoline:rose I wrote sever- Sl land fitM ‘‘All I and nlosty is about this stuff and ' for kids addressing-Sfilms jsome going oij California Department of Education r (jfl tntl g'S “V'c!l‘"Ts t'pl‘1jT?ng private land They have consi head-o- n can’t pay attention (in class)”' lie controversial topics such as told the audience at the film’s I eariic industries inour area linally LruKe expense iri drilling the wells ' ' ' " “I write ’ Thate lhe person’ over and lesbian stereotypes Her lat- says gay v y Tuesday u iht urn us nath I although becauseof mtidern technol - es( nm lakes viewers into real mid- ' und over just want to ditch school Chasnoffvwho has twp school-ag- e : well knowwhere to : de schools to hear kids talk about kill myself anything to get out of or P’Uy sons says she wasn’t surprised by they dtdn ttart Llu'pnu of gas li lH dnirThe government chargesthem a the g it’ and bullying that the stories she Heard from kids while ji y until this to a iHore reasoilahle leej of 12 12 of the price of ' niyuhy ’s camera captures the on Chasnoff even goes -making the filril only by the number rasr price rise which was worse than fckas Crude" per barrel Thisfig- - " The : i that defines early Gel insecurity them StudenLs were lined up at gawky of spent urcs out io beless than$4 Quite a : prcmiercdS:enily in San In the hallways girls theater adolescence Real” every school wanting to tell their stoover 50 tompantts and govJiflcrenee hdween that and the Francisco to a oacked house San their notebooks to their chests hug ries Some of those who appear in U undererilment olliees at ihjit nine ' $30 companies pay in ihe Mideast and bbys amble in such a stiff self-Francisco Oakland rind Berkeley ' the saw it for the first documentary stand the industry still ask a lot of loroi and then ship it hv boat to the school distncts have committed ta ' think conscious someone ' way you its at time premiere this week Onc people where our oil iind gas come with' a joystick is operating their particularly tormented boy who was ' limbs from a remote location They ' actually pushed off his bjke while the want nothing more thari to get' " crew was filming him was beaming your ttpinionTair National Association of School Psy through the day without embarrass- when the lights in the theater came ilwliilcavl Alaska iirT'cxas Our otl pnee or greed? Sort of wipes out any ' often an Chasnoff have ment elusive to invited goal chologisls ' UP'comes over the hill in pipelines to tax cut and is a major drimper on the “If the filni at their upcoming ' screen someone something Says so did this” he told “I'm the in’ Lake you glad Salt area tvllncrics City economy Large corporations have to conventions ' wrong in class we like totally ' “I hoipe you get this into ' Chasnoff The gas also goes in other pipelines report their profits to the FTC each humiliate them” oneboy admits “Everybody who watched the film every school in America” to California sonie of thc lntermoun- - year Towards the end of the last high “We put the spotlight oh seemed to remember riot only what ' smiling He seemed to think that if kids and tain slates aiul iri the ease of Qucsiar price most of the oil compianies ' to them in junior high but 'them” happened teachers and to in truly understood the deep ' these large pipelines Corp reported profits of near 56 percent is the name of die kid who did it’' difference whatsoever Any and lasting paiR that bullying caused also to' 'tlie Midwest This is contrary EXXON reported S3 percentThis is seized upon It can be ethnicity skin Chasnoff said “It’s amazing the " ' ' tb maybe most of it would stop I want QueMar’s eliiim that their dislrihu- after paying their executive officers it has It stays with you your shade (too black not black enough) impact ' to believe he’s right lion branch does not have enough hundreds of millions of dollars This whole life” shoes religion weight learning ' here gas to supply their customers was reported at the time by the HerAuthorities in Colorado recently style' speech pattern — anything Joan Ryan is a columnist for the San The sa the hav e to buy gas on the ald ' released footage' from a home video Kids in middle school like many Francisco Chronicle: Send comments to a at maiket supply price open high that shows the two Columbine High adults fear difference Perhaps it is tp her in care of this newspaper or Us What a lie The Herald would riot David C‘ Weeks School killers taking target practice bom of their own fear of being ostra- - send her at joanryansfehroni-deco: detail allow me to go into limiting Smilhfield cized and condemned by the group ' : lion the compain I By - Joan Ryan in the woods' - - : - I ' : 1 : dark-eye- et : - ’ : 1 1 ' V4()-soniethin- gl Ser-vic- ’ : -- 'i ' 'Jf: s ’ - ““®sfrlctcJorr9uid v Greed to blame' for gas prices - -- : : : -- H hap-peni- " - ’ - : - pre-mie- : re - ’ name-callin- - : 1 ’ - : - : : : m Non Sequitur MN10MN WVERfc vbrysri’- PEcfLt FftSLUNMIft oFUFEOWhlRtUElR Of ePlNWife os CORVJOn tVfcNtt K C°tfeWT IW TbKfWJCMZF M I? 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