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updated 4:26 p.m. ET Feb. 23, 2012
JUPITER, Fla. - Despite a new haircut and new uniform, Jose Reyes was easy to recognize on his first day at spring training Thursday.
Several dozen fans shouted Reyes' name as they clustered along a practice-field fence at the Miami Marlins' complex, and when he walked over to sign autographs, the tumult resembled a New York subway station at rush hour.
"Don't push! Don't push!" one fan said.
"Make a line, for God's sake!" said another.
That's why the Marlins signed Reyes: to cause a commotion. They figure he'll do it on the bases, leading off and using his speed to disrupt defenses, like last year with the New York Mets when he won the NL batting championship.
There's also the Big Apple-style buzz he's bringing to the Marlins, a franchise in transition after finishing last in NL attendance each of the past seven years. The Marlins anticipate sellout crowds this season in their new ballpark, and they're being touted as potential playoff contenders thanks to an offseason spending spree.
The biggest deal was a $106 million, six-year contract for Reyes, and the shortstop already ranks among the most popular players with Marlins fans. His No. 7 jersey has become a common sight in Miami.
"They haven't seen me play here yet," he said. "When they see me play, they're going to fall in love with me, because I'm a guy who gives 100 percent every day."
They loved him in New York, where he made the All-Star team four times and hit .337 last season with 39 steals and an NL-high 16 triples.
He had been with the organization since age 16, but the cash-strapped franchise didn't make a serious offer when he became a free agent this offseason. Marlins officials began courting him in person at a New York hotel at midnight, only moments after the signing period began.
He sealed his deal with Miami at the winter meetings, and Reyes is now so eager to start earning his big salary that he reported for camp three days before the first full-squad workout.
"This is my new team, my new family," he said. "It's a good feeling."
Reyes sported closely cropped hair after having his dreadlocks shorn to comply with the Marlins' dress code. He said he likes the new look, but his daughter needed time getting accustomed to it.
"The first couple of days when I went home, I said to my daughter, 'Come on over,' and she was like, 'This is my daddy?'"
While Reyes spoke at his locker, two stalls away slugger Hanley Ramirez sat and listened. Ramirez is reluctantly moving from short to third base to make room for Reyes and said he welcomes the addition of his fellow Dominican.
"He's going to help this team in many ways, because he's a winner," Ramirez said. "When you've got a guy like him who brings a lot of energy from the clubhouse to the field, it's going to be great."
While Ramirez has drawn criticism for his effort and attitude, the genial Reyes enjoys a reputation for always playing hard. He's also injury-prone, and hamstring injuries hampered him each of the past three seasons, but the Marlins aren't inclined to discourage him from diving or sliding.
However, they will give him a breather on occasion, manager Ozzie Guillen said.
"You cannot change this guy and the way he plays," Guillen said. "We'll give him a few days off. Every time he's on the bench he'll be making $2 million just sitting next to me, and that's hard if you're the owner and you see that. But that's the way it's going to be."
Ramirez will not be Reyes' backup at shortstop, Guillen said. The manager wants Ramirez to focus on learning how to play third.
When they're both out there, Reyes said, the left side of the infield will rival any in the majors.
"We can be very good, the best," he said. "We can do some special things."
They mostly went their separate ways during informal drills Thursday. At the fence by the practice field, Reyes signed balls, bats, hats, photos and baseball cards, then walked away to a chorus of thank-yous.
"Have fun in Miami, Jose," one fan shouted.
Bigger crowds await there. The buzz for the Marlins' new shortstop is only beginning to build.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, shakes hands with United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, left, with British Foreign Minister William Hague at center, at the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis, Tunisia on Friday Feb. 24, 2012. In an effort to jolt Syria's president into accepting demands for a democratic transition, more than 60 nations give the U.N. a green light to begin planning a civilian peacekeeping mission after the Assad regime stops its bloody crackdown on the opposition. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, shakes hands with United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, left, with British Foreign Minister William Hague at center, at the Friends of Syria Conference in Tunis, Tunisia on Friday Feb. 24, 2012. In an effort to jolt Syria's president into accepting demands for a democratic transition, more than 60 nations give the U.N. a green light to begin planning a civilian peacekeeping mission after the Assad regime stops its bloody crackdown on the opposition. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits next to British foreign minister William Hague, left, at the start of the Conference on Syria in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. The birthplace of the Arab Spring is hosting a landmark conference on Syria by high-level U.S., European, Turkish and Arab League officials. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits next to British foreign minister William Hague, left, at the start of the Conference on Syria in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. The birthplace of the Arab Spring is hosting a landmark conference on Syria by high-level U.S., European, Turkish and Arab League officials. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
This Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012 satellite image shows a pipeline fire in Homs, Syria. The pipeline, which runs through the rebel-held neighborhood of Baba Amr, in Homs, had been shelled by regime troops for the previous 12 days, according to two activist groups, the Local Coordination Committees and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The state news agency, SANA, blamed "armed terrorists" for the pipeline attack last week. It said the pipeline feeds the tankers in the Damascus suburb of Adra, which contribute in supplying gasoline to the capital and southern regions. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe) MANDATORY CREDIT
In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 citizen journalism image provided by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria and accessed on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, flames rise from a house from Syrian government shelling, at Baba Amr neighborhood in Homs province, Syria. A French photojournalist and a prominent American war correspondent working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday as Syrian forces intensely shelled the opposition stronghold of Homs. (AP Photo/Local Coordination Committees in Syria) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton blasted Russia and China as "despicable" for opposing U.N. action aimed at stopping the bloodshed in Syria, and more than 60 nations began planning a civilian peacekeeping mission to deploy after the Damascus regime halts its crackdown on the opposition.
In his most forceful words to date on the Syrian crisis, President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its allies would use "every tool available" to end the bloodshed by the government of President Bashar Assad.
"It is time to stop the killing of Syrian citizens by their own government," Obama said in Washington, adding that it "absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to President Assad that it is time for a transition. It is time for that regime to move on."
Obama spoke as a group known as the Friends of Syria, led by the U.S. and European and Arab nations, met in Tunisia in the latest effort to halt the Assad regime's nearly year-old suppression of an anti-government uprising.
The group's actions are aimed at jolting Assad and his allies into accepting demands for a democratic transition, even as they are still unwilling to commit to military intervention.
While the Tunisia conference offered nothing other than the threat of increasing isolation and sanctions to compel compliance from Assad, Clinton went on to predict a military coup inside Syria of the kind that ended the old regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
"We saw this happen in other settings last year, I think it is going to happen in Syria," she told reporters at the end of the meeting. "We also know from many sources that there are people around Assad who are beginning to hedge their bets ? they didn't sign up to slaughter people."
Assad allies Russia and China, which blocked U.N. action on Syria and are eager to head off any repeat of the kind of foreign intervention that happened in Libya, gave no sign they would agree to peacekeepers. Moscow and Beijing have vetoed U.N. Security Council resolutions backing Arab League plans aimed at ending the conflict and condemning Assad's crackdown.
Their vetoes prompted a particularly strong reaction from Clinton.
"It's quite distressing to see two permanent members of the Security Council using their veto while people are being murdered ? women, children, brave young men ? houses are being destroyed," she said. "It is just despicable and I ask whose side are they on? They are clearly not on the side of the Syrian people."
The conference, meeting for the first time as a unified bloc, called on Assad to end the violence immediately and allow humanitarian aid into areas hit by his regime's crackdown. The group pledged to boost relief shipments and set up supply depots along Syria's borders, but it was unclear how it would be distributed without government approval.
Syrian government troops kept up the shelling of rebel-held neighborhoods in the besieged central city of Homs, while thousands of people in dozens of towns staged anti-regime protests. Activists said at least 50 people were killed nationwide Friday.
A Red Cross spokesman said the group evacuated seven people from Baba Amr, a heavily shelled neighborhood in Homs, to a hospital elsewhere in the city.
The U.N. estimated in January that 5,400 people were killed in the conflict. Hundreds more have died since, with activists saying the death toll is more than 7,300.
Assad's regime blames the violence on terrorists and armed thugs ? not people who want to reform the system.
The Friends of Syria group also vowed to step up ties with the Syrian National Council, an opposition umbrella group. They took a tentative step toward recognition by declaring the council to be "a legitimate representative" of the Syrian people, a possible precursor to calling it "the legitimate representative."
Despite the show of unity, which diplomats said they hoped would impress upon Assad that the end of his family's four-decade autocratic rule is inevitable and at hand, there were signs of division. Some nations argued for arming Assad's foes, while others called for the creation of protected humanitarian corridors to deliver aid.
Neither idea was included in the conference's final document, which instead focused on steps nations should take to tighten the noose on the regime, including boycotting Syrian oil, imposing travel and financial sanctions on Assad's inner circle, and working with the opposition to prepare for a post-Assad Syria, including lucrative commercial deals. It also welcomed the appointment of former U.N. chief Kofi Annan to be a joint U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria.
On the sanctions front, France said the European Union would on Monday freeze assets of Syria's national bank held in EU jurisdictions while Clinton vowed that already tough U.S. penalties would be strengthened.
Highlighting the divisions, though, Saudi Arabia called publicly for weapons and ammunition to be sent to the opposition, including the Free Syrian Army, a Turkey-based outfit made up largely of Assad regime defectors.
"I think it's an excellent idea," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal told reporters before meeting Clinton on the margins of the conference. Asked why, he replied: "Because they have to defend themselves."
Clinton demurred on the question. But on Thursday in London, she said the opposition would eventually find arms from some suppliers if Assad keeps up the relentless assault.
The Obama administration initially opposed arming the opposition but has recently opened the door to the possibility by saying that while a political solution is preferable, other measures may be needed if the onslaught doesn't end.
The Syrian National Council, for its part, said it would be grateful for help in any area.
"We welcome any assistance you might offer, or means to protect our brothers and sisters who are struggling to end the rule of tyranny," council president Burhan Ghalioun told the conference. He laid out the council's goal of a free, democratic Syria free of the "rule of a Mafia family" in which the rights of all would be respected.
Qatari Foreign Minister Hamad Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, who has been a driving force to unite Arab opinion against the Syrian regime, directly called on Assad to step down. And, together with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, he called for the creation of humanitarian corridors to get aid to embattled citizens.
Highlighting the deepening isolation of Damascus, the Hamas prime minister of Gaza voiced support for Syrian protesters seeking to overthrow Assad. It was the first time a senior Hamas figure has publicly backed the uprising and rebuked the Syrian regime.
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, the host of Friday's conference who only recently assumed power after his country became the first in the Arab Spring to topple its longtime leader last year, called for an Arab peacekeeping force to ensure stability during an eventual transition.
"We have to respond to the demand of the majority of the Syrian people to get rid of a corrupt, persecuting regime," he said. "We have to stop the bloodshed, but this cannot be through military intervention."
The Friends group recognized this call by giving a green light to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to start drawing up plans for such a joint Arab League-U.N. peacekeeping operation that would be comprised of civilian police officers. Ban is expected to begin recruiting possible contributors to the mission and preparing its mandate.
Such an operation would not be a military intervention but would still require authorization from the U.N. Security Council, where it will likely face opposition from veto-wielding members China and Russia, neither of which attended the Tunis conference, and Iran. Russia and Iran are Syria's two biggest military suppliers.
In New York on Friday, U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the secretary-general's office had no immediate response to a call for a peacekeeping mission.
As the conference began, about 200 pro-Assad demonstrators tried to storm the hotel. The protest forced Clinton to be diverted briefly to her hotel.
The protesters, waving Syrian and Tunisian flags, tussled with police and carried signs criticizing Clinton and President Barack Obama. They were driven out of the parking lot by police after about 15 minutes.
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Associated Press writers Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Anita Snow at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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This is an excerpt from my upcoming book Dear Charlotte, which tells the winding story of the triumph and folly of forever trying to better yourself. This letter is from the chapter on "The Pursuit of Happiness."
Date: May 10, 2009
Age: 27
Location: Austin, TX
Subject:
Charlotte, my world is being turned upside down because of cognitive therapy. I'm dizzy with how fast my life is changing.
The biggest change has been to my work situation. I've finally snapped out of that never-ending fog of semi-work. You know those long stretches of weeks or months I mentioned, when I burnt through my savings while watching TV shows day-in day-out? I've snapped out of all that. It's so surreal for me to be out-and-about at 2 p.m. in my dress shirt, driving to a meeting with a client, then at 3 p.m. driving back to the bank to deposit a check. Banks are nearly empty at that hour, and this one time when I was weaving through the rope lines, it occured to me that I hadn't deposited a check in more than six months.
And it's all because of cognitive therapy. In one of my sessions, I asked myself to be brutally honest. I told myself to pick a number, between zero and ten, representing how much?of a failure I really thought I was (10 being a total failure, 0 being not at all). After stewing on it, I picked the number "3". And as?I hit the "3" on my keyboard, I felt like I had just swallowed a bitter pill. It's like I couldn't accept the truth, which is that I haven't really been a failure after college. And just by the act of speculating that I might be okay, my mind felt liberated.
In another session, I asked myself a bold question,?"Since you hate your life so much, why don't you list out exactly what you like and dislike about it?" In one column I put down likes, and in another I wrote out dislikes. After five minutes of doing this, the likes column had become three times as long as the dislikes column.?I had my health, I wasn't broke, and there was a bright side to my non-employment. I liked that I could wake up whenever I wanted, and I genuinely enjoyed all those episodes of?The Sopranos?I watched over a short period of time. This may sound like I was encouraging myself to be a bum, but it actually encouraged me to embrace life, with all its imperfections.
I've worked an average of eight hours a day every weekday for the past month. Is the work I'm doing perfect? No. Have I found out what I want to do in life? No. But I'm no longer sitting around waiting for some magical total salvation.1
Despite how much I'm working, I now have so much more free time. I've redeemed between between two and four hours each day that I used to spend lying on the futon, staring at the ceiling, over-analyzing my life. I now use this extra time to reach out to my friends, even friends I haven't seen in months. I see people nearly every day now, whereas before, I socialized in person about five hours a week.
Ironically, cognitive therapy has caused a new problem in the form of change stress. I've had to limit the frequency of my therapy sessions, because of how overwhelmed I've become. For example, I'm considering buying a condo, and there's a stack of paperwork sitting on my table that I know is going to be a challenge to fill out given how patchy my work-situation has been in the past couple years. But I know I can get through it. I believe in cognitive therapy. And I believe that the changes this past month haven't been a fluke.
Out of all the things I've ever tried, cognitive therapy may just be the one thing that sticks.2
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Even with all these complicating factors and fuzzy science, however, a few juror traits have been quantifiably associated with verdict outcomes. Unfortunately, those correlations are among the most troubling imaginable for our legal system. Dennis Devine, a psychology professor at Purdue University, combed through the research for his upcoming book, Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science, and found that jurors tend to be more lenient on defendants who share the same race. The impact is fairly minor?that is, except in capital cases, in which black defendants are significantly more likely to receive the death penalty when there are a lot of white men on a jury and no black men to offset them. The trend has been traced through hundreds of death-penalty trials, not to mention corroborated by lab experiments, and the bias is worse if the black defendant is accused of killing a white person. Devine believes such discrimination is most noticeable during capital cases because of the unique nature of death-penalty verdicts. "A decision about who should live and who should die is inherently more subjective than whether someone killed somebody or not," he says. "It is therefore more susceptible to our implicit racial biases."
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