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Art
Am I pretty, or just really annoying?
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Let Freedumb Run!
A
lumberjack protesting Bush and the Iraq war runs through
downtown Miami every Friday wearing only socks, sneakers
and a really patriotic thong.
Hate Mail
You
know it’s a brutal election when a Teletubby, a Barbie
doll and Dora the Explorer are used in bigoted campaign
flyers.
Financial Priorities
Dr.
Enrique Davila practices medicine at and donates money
to Mount Sinai Medical Center. Now, he’s questioning how
it uses its donations.
News
Miami-Dade
The
county needs qualified professionals to run its
government, but it seems too few of them live here.
Miami
The once-doomed Coconut Grove Playhouse
is on the road to recovery.
Miami Beach
Fontainebleau's developer screwed with a
neighboring resort when he built a tower that cast a
massive shadow over its pool. Now officials want to
preserve the wall of spite.
Bay
Harbor
Islands
The county prevents homeowners from
building boat docks in sensitive waters close to shore,
but the town forbids them from building docks more than
8 feet long.
What’s
a boater to do?
Surfside
The Town Commission agreed to protect sea
grass from damaging boat docks, but they can’t settle
arguments about how to name town streets, parks and
buildings.
Aventura
The city approves a deal to build a
library and performing arts complex and agrees to make
sure its schools can fit future residents.
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Vol. XXII
No.40 Oct.11 2007
The Story Matters
The Power of
Commitment
Polish-born physicist and
chemist Marie Sklodowska Curie earned renown in prominent
scientific circles and two Nobel Prizes when she discovered
radioactivity around the turn of the 20th century.
Her studies of such radioactive materials as
pitchblende (the ore from which uranium is extracted), polonium
and radium unlocked the mysteries of substances that have since
wreaked havoc on the world. Yet, those same substances,
initially used to treat wounded soldiers during World War I,
opened the door for a new era of medical advancement still used
today in, among other things, x-rays and cancer therapy.
Madame Curie, a French citizen for most of her
life, was celebrated in a way few women were in her day, but she
was so deeply committed to her scientific quest that,
ultimately, she died for it. (After years of exposure to such
dangerous elements, she contracted one of the first known cases
of radiation poisoning.)
Women like Curie derive their power from their
commitment — to themselves, their communities and their crafts.
They commit to loving those things they hold dear. They commit
to overcoming challenges and, sometimes, crippling hardships.
They commit to changing their worlds no matter the cost and, as
such, they change ours.
The 25 South Florida ladies profiled in these
pages demonstrate that kind of devotion. They are
artists, athletes, authors, business leaders, city and
university administrators, chefs, entrepreneurs, lawyers,
judges, musicians, philanthropists, spiritual leaders and even
aristocrats. They are mothers, daughters, sisters and wives.
They are Miami-Dade
County
residents who dedicate their energies to making a difference and
who shape the community in which we live. They are the 2007
SunPost Power Women.
— Rachael Lee
Coleman
Power Women
Credits
Contributing
Writers:
Mary Jo Almeida-Shore, Erik
Bojnansky, Julia Carfagno, Rachael Lee Coleman, Margaret Griffis,
Angie Hargot,
John Hood and Ben Torter
Editors:
Erik Bojnansky and Rachael Lee Coleman
Copy Editor:
Mary Louise English
Designer:
Kim Stark
Caricature
Artist:
Joseph Guidry
Cover Designer:
Michael Menchero
The 2007
SunPost Power Women
Magda Abdo-Gomez
Michelle Bernstein
Judge Beth Bloom
Beth Boone
Cynthia Davis Carr
Judge Jeri B.
Cohen
Rabbi Jody Cohen
Edwidge Danticat
Lucia Dougherty
Gloria Estefan
Patricia Frost
Princess Thi-Nga of Vietnam
Yolanda Cash Jackson
Amy Losek Ladenheim
Diane Lieberman
Mary Luft
Vicki Mallette
Tracy Wilson Mourning
Laura Quinlan
Maria Sastre
Frances
Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa
Donna Shalala
Rosa Sugranes
Diana Susi
Naomi Wilzig |
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