Archive for October, 2009

Credo

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2009

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

I cannot find my way: there is no star
In all the shrouded heavens anywhere;
And there is not a whisper in the air
Of any living voice but one so far
That I can hear it only as a bar

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Charles Ornstein

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2009

Charles Ornstein

Charles Ornstein started his career as a reporter at the Dallas Morning News before moving on to the Los Angeles Times. “My wife, who wasn’t my wife at the time, her first time being in L.A. was when our plane touched down,” Ornstein recalled. They stayed for years, and Ornstein went on to be lead reporter on a Pulitzer-Prize-winning series of articles on King/Drew hospital. Today, he’s a senior reporter at ProPublica. Read more about him below.

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Cynthia Stamper Graff

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2009

Cynthia Graff

Cynthia Stamper Graff is President and CEO of Lindora, Inc., which owns eight retail clinics — the topic she visited Zócalo to discuss. Graff, born in Alaska and raised in California, told us a bit more about herself before her talk began.

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Dev Gnanadev

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2009

Dev Gnanadev

Dev Gnanadev, only days before joining Zócalo to discuss retail clinics, concluded his term as president of the California Medical Association. Gnanadev, a cardiovascular surgeon and chief medical officer at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, seemed relieved to wrap up a gig that had him traveling to Washington DC often to work on healthcare reform, though he remains very passionate about the issue. Read more about him below.

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Mary Kate Scott

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2009

Mary Kate Scott

Mary Kate Scott, founder and CEO of Scott & Company and a professor of health care business and consulting at USC, joined Zócalo to chat about retail clinics and how they’re changing medical care. Scott grew up in South Africa and Australia — she keeps a large collection of wines from both countries — and has lived in Los Angeles for the last decade. “What brought me here was McKinsey,” she said, “but in part I chose Los Angeles because I sail, and you can sail year round. That was the unprofessional reason to come.” Read more about her below.

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Feuilleton
Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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