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WHAT: Jayson Blair advanced quickly during his tenure at The New York Times , where he was hired as a full-time staff writer after his internship there and others at The Boston Globe and The Washington Post . Even accusations of inaccuracy and a series of corrections to his reports on Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks did not stop Blair from moving on to national coverage of the war in Iraq. But when suspicions arose over his reports on military families, an internal review found that he was fabricating material and communicating with editors from his Brooklyn apartment — or within the Times building — rather than from outside New York. Some Times staffers, opposed to what they viewed as favoritism by Executive Editor Howell Raines, blamed a star system that allowed Blair to advance unusually fast in an extremely competitive, mostly veteran environment. Blair's former boss, Jonathan Landman, said race played a large part in the African American writer's ascendancy. The findings of a 25-member committee headed by Allan Siegal, an assistant managing editor, led to the appointment of a public editor and stricter editorial policies. But staffing changes and higher standards could not change what happened: The Times‘s reputation was deeply tarnished. Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd resigned in a cloud of mismanagement. Journalism, in general, suffered perhaps the biggest blow to its credibility in U.S. history. Question: How does the Times investigate problems and correct policies that allowed the Blair scandal to happen? WHO: The consequences of Blair's actions are so broad that it is important to have representatives from all staff levels, as well as journalists outside the Times staff, weigh in on corrective steps. Leading this group should be one or several highly ethical consensus-builders who can solicit and synthesize ideas from throughout the profession. In the case of the Times , stakeholders range from the humble retiree who simply reads his paper in the morning to the power-wielding diplomat who relies on foreign-policy reports to inform her decisions. Journalists, too, lose ground when a colleague lowers the public's value of their work. As a group, biggest stakeholders are citizens of democracies, which depend on journalists to grow trust in readers with accurate reporting. WHY: The Blair case raises questions about hiring, management and overall editorial policy. First, there is the issue of relative inexperience in a super-high-stakes newsroom. Is it fair to senior staffers to allow a fresh-out-of-college writer to step into the ranks? More importantly, is it fair to expect such an inexperienced writer, however talented, to produce reporting as sharp as that of a decorated correspondent? While a pure meritocracy allows an individual of any experience level to fill any role, talent in the absence of experience could lead to diminished professionalism: Blair's ability to impress editors with his writing may have led to him feeling that facts are less important than prose. Second, there is the question of who is responsible for letting Blair go so far. Is it the editor who hired him straight from the University of Maryland? How bout successive editors, who, despite their mediocre evaluations, did not object loudly enough to Blair's promotions? Could the executive and managing editors, with their big-picture roles and busy days, truly be responsible for one staffer’s malfeasance? Third, there must be a better way. Is it enough to know what went wrong and tighten the reigns on practices such as anonymous sources? Or does the Times need an auditor, someone it pays for a scolding? Why should an outsider be allowed to make recommendations on better internal practices? Then again, how could an insider, in earshot of the mess itself, lead the committee to fix things? HOW: The Times decided that to remedy the nasty ramifications of the Blair scandal, it would commission an insider, along with others in and outside the Times newsroom, to investigate problems and suggest changes. The insider, Siegal, decided the Times should hire an outsider (who would be former Life magazine editor Daniel Okrent) to suggest further improvements. And Times editorial policy changed to reflect a much more cautious, conservative atmosphere concerning staff promotions and, especially, verification of reporting. A notable example of the latter aspect regards anonymous sources. In terms of staffing, the Times went so far as to require written evaluations for any candidates transferring between posts. A particularly difficult aspect of the fallout, although one welcome by staffers who felt marginalized, was the dual resignation of Raines and Boyd. That development, at least in the view of Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, was for the greater good of the Times . Symbolically, their departures made it possible for observers to view the Times as a reformed institution.

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LIVING THE BEATLES LEGEND: The Untold Story of Mal Evans , by Kenneth Womack

He was a “gentle giant.” A “teddy bear” who once posed with a koala. A “lovable, cuddly guy.” Of all the people in the Beatles’ entourage, Mal Evans was indisputably the most Muppet-like.

You may have seen the 6-foot-3 Evans looming over shoulders in “Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s blockbuster 2021 documentary . That was him in a green, suede, fringed jacket, helping Paul McCartney puzzle out “ The Long and Winding Road ,” and banging an anvil on “ Maxwell’s Silver Hammer ” with boyish joy in his bespectacled eyes.

He was with the band almost from the beginning — first as a bouncer at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, and then as their driver, roadie and general guy Friday — and all the way to the very bitter end. He was rarely called the fifth Beatle, as was his comrade in factotum-dom, Neil Aspinall, but certainly could have qualified as the sixth or seventh.

Unlike Aspinall and so many other Beatles associates , however, Evans did not receive an obituary in The New York Times when he died at 40 on Jan. 4, 1976. Nor was there a news story about the sensational cause: a fusillade of bullets from the police, summoned after he, who idolized cowboys as well as rock stars, brandished a loaded Winchester rifle in his girlfriend’s Los Angeles apartment.

At the time, Evans was under contract from Grosset & Dunlap to write a long-planned (and Beatles-authorized) memoir about his time with the group, originally called “200 Miles to Go” after the night he punched out a dangerously cracked windscreen and chauffeured his charges for hours through the freezing cold.

Almost 50 years later, after the manuscript and other materials were discovered languishing in a storage basement by a publishing temp and returned to Evans’s family with Yoko Ono’s help, Kenneth Womack has finished the job, with rigor and care if not a sparkling prose style. (In his pages, emotions are always reaching a “fever pitch” and the “winds of change” can actually be glimpsed.) A practiced Beatlesologist, he cleans the floors nicely, but doesn’t dance with the mop.

“Living the Beatles Legend,” its wan title taken with perhaps too much respect from a later iteration of the Evans project, is an interesting case study of two matters: the collateral damage of fame and the difficult process of life writing. Reprinted journal entries and previously unseen (at least by me) snapshots, like of McCartney sunning himself on a car in the Rocky Mountains, offer the voyeuristic excitement of leafing through a private scrapbook, though many of the stories are standards.

Born in 1935, Evans was a little older and posher than the Fab Four. His family waited out the Blitz in Wales; he was issued a Mickey Mouse gas mask. Nicknamed “Hippo” during a shyness-plagued school career — “I didn’t mind,” he wrote, “because it always seemed to be a fairly amiable, vegetarian type of animal, not doing anybody any harm” — he already had a wife, toddler and respectable position as a telecommunications engineer for the General Post Office when he began visiting the Cavern.

There, he’d request Elvis covers that the Beatles would dedicate teasingly — and cruelly, in retrospect — to “Malcontent,” “Malfunctioning” or “Malodorous,” before hiring him for 25 pounds per week, not all expenses paid.

Evans would both revel in and chafe at his subordinate role, devoting himself completely to the whims of these infantilized musicians; John Lennon need only yell “Apples, Mal” at 3 a.m., for example, and a box of Golden Delicious would materialize from Covent Garden.

George Harrison , who also gets a new biography this season, once recalled Evans — a determined athlete who was chased by a stingray and risked hypothermia playing Channel Swimmer in “Help!” — leaping from a boat to buy a “groovy-looking cloak” off the back of a fan. He’d go to spectacular lengths to recover Harrison’s treasured red guitar, “Lucy,” from a thief.

Evans’s reward, and ultimate punishment, for loyal service to the Beatles was sharing in their sybaritic habits. In their orbit he met scores of celebrities: Marlene Dietrich, exposing her pubic hair; Burt Lancaster, whose swim trunks he borrowed; a trouserless Keith Moon. His responsibilities included occasionally spraying overzealous fans with a garden hose and tossing them over his shoulder before ejection and — more consistently — procuring women and drugs, of which he also partook.

Like a Mary Poppins of vice, Evans came to carry around a doctor’s bag filled with plectra, cigarettes, condoms, snacks and aspirin. The gentle giant was also, Womack makes plain, a clumsy compartmentalizer. His long-suffering wife, Lily, would find notes (and sometimes knickers) from groupies in his suitcases. Their children once overheard him being fellated by his girlfriend after he sent a birthday message to one of them on recycled cassette tape. A son he sired with a fan was placed for adoption.

More than the other underlings, and irritatingly to some, he insinuated himself into public photographs. He became a fan favorite. “Everybody knew Mal,” Heart’s Ann Wilson, one of Womack’s many supplemental interviewees, observed of the roar when he came onstage to set up at a Seattle concert.

Increasingly, he angled for recognition and promotion. Sometimes, he was cheated of credit, as in his contributions to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”; sometimes, he overreached, claiming that he helped arrange songs on the debut album of the Iveys, later Badfinger.

One of the great sadnesses of Evans — along with his oft-abandoned family — is that he longed to perform himself. “Road manager for the Beatles was, for me, the next best thing,” he wrote. Like the Will Ferrell character in the deservedly famous “Saturday Night Live” sketch about Blue Öyster Cult, he did get the chance to play cowbell, on “With a Little Help From My Friends.”

There’s a poignant stiffness to the diaries Evans kept, possibly for posterity, and the poetry he attempted. An ordinary man who took an extraordinary ride that ended with a terrible crash — aspiring toward honor but submitting to appetites — he is here dusted off and given a proper salute, a place on the groaning shelf of Beatles books.

Though tellingly, even if by accident, his name is left off the spine.

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Making the case for Florida school vouchers: One child’s story

Posted: November 24, 2023 | Last updated: November 24, 2023

Evan Rowlands hasn’t attended a regular school classroom since he was 6 years old.

On doctors’ orders, the 10-year-old from southern Hillsborough County studies an online curriculum at home, supplemented by tutoring, enrichment courses and any other opportunities his family can afford.

His daily regimen — up by 8 a.m., working on lessons by 9 a.m., turning to extras around noon — leaves plenty of time for appointments related to his respiratory, neuromuscular and immuno-compromised conditions.

Flexibility to deal with Evan’s reality led his family to homeschooling. And Florida’s education scholarship and voucher system for students with special needs helps make it possible.

“It really has been such a huge bonus,” Jessica Rowlands said recently over coffee at Starbucks, before taking her son to a homeschool group hockey lesson in Wesley Chapel. The money, she said, helps pay for curriculum, equipment and field trips.

Yet Rowlands and many other parents whose children benefit from the program worry that their situations are often overlooked in Florida’s political battle over voucher expansion. They don’t see vouchers as a choice as much as a necessity to succeed in an education system that isn’t built to suit their sometimes life-and-death needs.

They’ve watched with trepidation as lawmakers have merged vouchers into a single pot, providing support to children whose parents want — rather than require — something different. Would their situations get less attention as the program focuses on providing options more broadly to all?

They’ve also worried about mounting criticism over the use of taxpayer money on items such as paddleboards and widescreen televisions — things that didn’t cause a stir when limited to kids with academic, social and physical disabilities.

With such expenses now permissible for anyone with a voucher, these parents feared the questions might lead lawmakers to cut back.

Desperate for options

The money issue aside, an underlying problem is that many public schools aren’t equipped to support students with disabilities, Orlando parent Jennifer Copp said in an email.

“There often aren’t private schools that can meet the needs, and parents can’t always homeschool,” she said. “The REAL story is that there are many many parents who have tried public school and had a disastrous and damaging outcome.”

Many are desperate to find solutions, said Jenny Wojick, a special education advocate who helps parents across Florida navigate the system. They have fragile children who require more attention than public schools provide, she said, and they struggle to find adequate private schools, too.

They often wind up leaving their jobs to provide the in-person care their children need, and turn to vouchers as a resource, even when faced with difficulties in getting services and equipment reimbursed, Wojick said.

That’s where the Rowlands family found themselves with Evan.

While in the classroom, Evan proved a gifted learner, his mom says. He taught himself to multiply, she recalled, and devoured books.

Yet other things got in the way.

He carried an EpiPen, inhalers, Benadryl and other medicines to respond to his many allergies, but they were locked in a room that few had access to in case of an emergency. He was “constantly sick,” Jessica Rowlands said, and frequently missed classes because of appointments and occasional lengthy hospitalizations.

As a result, Evan was regularly behind in schoolwork and having to catch up.

It wasn’t fair to him, his mom said, or to his teachers, who couldn’t reasonably be expected to cater to Evan while also handling all his classmates. When his doctors recommended a smaller environment, she said, it just had to be done.

“Ideally, I would love to send him to our neighborhood school. I could go back to work,” Jessica Rowlands said. “But that’s not the way our life works, and that’s not what works for Evan.”

‘This is not free money’

Homeschooling helped overcome Evan’s hurdles. He said he’s rarely sick anymore, though he still has close to a dozen monthly lab, therapy and other medical appointments, around which he must pace his online schoolwork.

That pacing provides time for enrichment such as aquarium field trips, piano lessons and extra science courses through the University of Florida extension without feeling crushed by things out of his control. Evan, who wants to be an astrophysicist, receives tutoring and other assistance from certified teachers, his mom said. He also faces a family requirement that academics come before his passions for video games and ice hockey.

“It gives me more flexibility in scheduling,” Evan said, noting most of his friends are homeschooled, too.

The upshot, his mom added, is “he’s not missing out.” And the voucher helps make his education more affordable. That’s despite the struggles she and others have faced lately getting reimbursements from Step Up For Students, the organization that manages school vouchers for the state.

During a special legislative session this month to expand voucher access for students with disabilities, lawmakers said they would look for ways to improve the reimbursement system.

Rowlands, like many other parents whose children receive the special needs vouchers, said she hoped officials will place renewed emphasis on the families who see vouchers as a lifeline rather than an added benefit. She said she doesn’t begrudge anyone who gets a regular voucher, and she encourages people she knows to apply.

Still, Rowlands added, with state money for education stretched thin across public and private options, Florida should consider setting some guardrails, such as demanding more accountability for how the money gets spent, and placing priorities on those with the greatest need.

“Don’t ruin it for the rest of us who aren’t doing crazy things. We’re not doing it because we want to and because it’s the new fad,” she said. “This is not free money. This is not to pick an extremely expensive travel sport. This is to educate your child.”

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In this series of case studies, based on client testimonials from VouchedFor, FTAdviser speaks to advisers about particularly emotional or complicated financial planning cases to find out how they helped clients at difficult times in their lives.

Adviser name: Ben Lancaster

Firm name: Depledge Strategic Wealth Management

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The problem:   My client, aged approximately 75, had lost her father and husband in quick succession. The former left my client a significant inheritance. The latter always took care of the family finances. She has no children. This left my client with a large amount of money in her current account and feeling overwhelmed and anxious about her finances and what to do.

Ben Lancaster says: "Clearly, this was a very difficult time. Her biggest concern was that her father had left her a significant amount of money and she now had this sat in one bank account.

In addition, she now had the responsibility of managing the assets that her late husband had left behind. These were spread across a large number of accounts and arrangements.

As financial management was always left to her father and husband, the client was very unsure regarding what needed to be done and nervous about taking her first foray into receiving financial advice.

There were questions about tax, how to structure cash accounts, or were the investments in the right place? She felt overwhelmed and anxious.

What were the particular challenges? 

There were several challenges, according to Lancaster. He says: "I needed to establish a way of ensuring the client felt comfortable/calm enough to have rationale conversations regarding her finances and what she hoped to achieve.

This challenge was managed by having her close friend join conversations as a support and chaperone.

I did have a quiet conversation with the client separately to make sure she was truly comfortable with this person being involved in meetings, and how they should notify me immediately if this ever changed.

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I took the time to explain how the process works and how, if we did want to work together, I would provide a proposal in writing and ensure she was comfortable/provided written authorisation before commencing any chargeable work.

How did you approach the situation?

One of the key challenges is that the client would feel overwhelmed and emotional if we covered too much ground too quickly.

I had to tailor my approach to break the conversations down into manageable chunks. I also needed to keep checking if she was ok or felt ok to continue, and continually checked for understanding.

I also gave her the opportunity to ask questions, reinforcing the point that she can ask anything she likes and that ther there are no silly questions. I wanted to create a safe space for her. 

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