A correlation between marriage and blindness? I read in statistics once that we can show some correlation enen by plotting our shoe size with IQ. It doesn't mean "cause and effect relationship" by any stretch of imagination. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Vipin Malhotra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [AI] The blind diplomat
> The very basis are mythical! > There are instances where blind persons have married > not only once but so > many times. > Its an issue of attraction not of accessibility! > Atleast I never faced such > dearth in my life, whether the occasion is of getting > married or making girl > friends. > With love and regards, > Vip > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "rajesh asudani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:07 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] The blind diplomat > > >> Yes, I do also inclined to hold the same opinion, > even David Blunket seems >> not to have married! >> >> Exclusion is ubiqutous. >> >> Rajesh >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "dr.u.n.sinha narain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 1:28 AM >> Subject: Re: [AI] The blind diplomat >> >> >>>i met mr. rabby. i saw his capacities, when i met > him in lucknow. >>> since he is transferred from india, i could not > contact him, as i do >>> not have his e mail now. my questionis the gentle > man is so qualified >>> but why he has not married? is it general blind > problem everywhere? >>> regards >>> drun >>> >>> On 7/8/07, Geetha Shamanna > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> The Saturday Profile >>>> >>>> A U.S. Diplomat With an > Extraordinary Global View >>>> >>>> By [4]MARC LACEY >>>> >>>> PORT OF SPAIN, [5]Trinidad >>>> >>>> AS chief of the political section at the > American Embassy here for >>>> the >>>> last two years, Avraham Rabby has had the job > of surveying >>>> Trinidads >>>> political landscape for Washington. >>>> >>>> The fact that he has not actually seen the > Caribbean island or any >>>> of >>>> the places on five continents where he has > been posted has not >>>> stymied >>>> him. >>>> >>>> I necessarily listen more than a sighted > person would, he said. If >>>> Im >>>> walking along a street, I can tell there is a > building next to me >>>> because of the echoes of my feet or my cane. > A blind person sees >>>> the >>>> world differently from a sighted person. Our > impressions are no >>>> less >>>> valid. >>>> >>>> Mr. Rabby, who lost his sight at the age of 8 > because of detached >>>> retinas, is the State Departments first blind > diplomat. It is an >>>> achievement he fought for in the 1980s, > passing three written >>>> entrance >>>> exams and two oral exercises along the way. > But even then, the >>>> State >>>> Department barred him from the diplomatic > corps. >>>> >>>> You dont ask a blind person to drive a bus or > be a bank teller, >>>> George >>>> S. Vest, who was the personnel director for > the Foreign Service, >>>> explained in a 1988 interview. There are jobs > which are dangerous >>>> or >>>> unsuitable for them. And in the Foreign > Service, were full of jobs >>>> like that. >>>> >>>> The department contended that diplomats, > blind ones included, had >>>> to >>>> be able to work anywhere in the world and to > work with confidential >>>> documents without any outside aid. In > addition, State Department >>>> officials said, diplomats had to be able to > pick up on nonverbal >>>> cues, >>>> such as winks or nods, which can sometimes > have more meaning than >>>> the >>>> words being uttered. >>>> >>>> But Mr. Rabby illustrated another essential > quality of diplomats: >>>> perseverance. No international treaty has > ever been decided on the >>>> basis of a wink or a nod, he retorted, after > hiring a lawyer and >>>> challenging the State Departments policy, > which dated from the 18th >>>> century. >>>> >>>> Aiding Mr. Rabbys effort was a federal law > barring the government >>>> from >>>> disqualifying prospective employees because > of disabilities. >>>> Eventually, after the news media and Congress > found out about his >>>> case, the State Department reversed course. > The new policy would >>>> consider disabled diplomats on a case-by-case > basis. Mr. Rabby >>>> became >>>> case No. 1. >>>> >>>> In 1990, he was off to London, where he was > posted at the embassy >>>> there as a junior political officer. He moved > next to Pretoria, >>>> South >>>> Africa, where [6]Nelson Mandela had just been > freed from prison and >>>> where Mr. Rabby witnessed the countrys first > free elections. It was >>>> one of the most stimulating experiences in my > life, he said, noting >>>> that he was one of the embassys election > observers. >>>> >>>> People ask me how I can assess a political > rally if I cant see it, >>>> he >>>> said. I tell them that I listen to the crowd > and to the speakers. >>>> You >>>> can sense what is going on. >>>> >>>> He spent time in Washington at the State > Departments Bureau of >>>> Human >>>> Rights, and in postings in Lima and New > Delhi. During a stint at >>>> the >>>> United States Mission to the [7]United > Nations, he helped write >>>> resolutions dealing with literacy, global > health and the rights of >>>> the >>>> disabled. >>>> >>>> His final posting he retired at the end of > June at the mandatory >>>> retirement age of 65 was to Port of Spain, > where he became an >>>> expert >>>> in Trinidads political system, which has long > been divided between >>>> parties, one predominantly Afro-Trinidadian > and one >>>> Indo-Trinidadian. >>>> >>>> When journalists descended on Trinidad > recently in search of >>>> information on the suspected plot to set off > a bomb at a fuel line >>>> at >>>> Kennedy International Airport that was traced > back to this >>>> Caribbean >>>> island, he became one of the officials to > talk to. >>>> >>>> A diplomat does a lot of writing, a lot of > reading, a lot of >>>> thinking, >>>> a lot of talking and has to attend a lot of > meetings, he said. >>>> Thanks >>>> to technological advances and a full-time > assistant, Mr. Rabby >>>> could >>>> do all of those things too. >>>> >>>> He wrote his cables to Washington using a > machine that wrote in >>>> Braille. He then read them back to his > assistant, Rhonda Singh, who >>>> typed them up. He also had a computer with a > speech program that >>>> allowed him to listen to his e-mail messages. >>>> >>>> As for tracking news developments, Ms. Singh, > an American citizen >>>> who >>>> lives in Trinidad, read him the local papers. > I was basically his >>>> eyes, she said. >>>> >>>> BORN in Israel, Mr. Rabby, who is known as > Rami, was sent to live >>>> with >>>> an aunt in England at the age of 10 because > his parents believed >>>> there >>>> were better schools for the blind there. A > Hebrew speaker, he >>>> quickly >>>> mastered English at Worcester College for > Blind Boys. >>>> >>>> I remember the headmaster used to go out and > speak to groups about >>>> the >>>> school, and he used to say that we teach our > boys to stand on their >>>> own two feet and, if necessary, to step on > yours too, Mr. Rabby >>>> recalled. >>>> >>>> He went off to Oxford, where he studied > French and Spanish. Finding >>>> a >>>> job after college proved a challenge. Time > and time again I met >>>> recruiters who felt that a blind person could > not work in >>>> management, >>>> he said in the British accent that he has > never lost. >>>> >>>> Eventually, he joined Ford Motor Company in > Britain, where he >>>> worked >>>> in human resources. After about a year, he > moved to the United >>>> States >>>> and earned an M.B.A. at the [8]University of > Chicago. >>>> >>>> After graduation in 1969, he sought out a > management training >>>> program, >>>> but had few offers after dozens and dozens, > if not hundreds of >>>> interviews. >>>> >>>> He finally landed a job with a management > consulting firm, Hewitt >>>> Associates, and later moved to Citibank. He > also spent time as an >>>> independent consultant, writing a number of > employment guides, >>>> including one giving advice to blind job > seekers. >>>> >>>> One of my problems in my working life, after > a few years I get a >>>> bit >>>> tired of what I am doing and I want to > change, said Mr. Rabby, who >>>> became an American citizen in 1980. >>>> >>>> It was while living in New York that he > decided to make the jump >>>> into >>>> international relations, a longtime interest. > The State Departments >>>> regular rotations of its diplomats proved a > perfect fit. >>>> >>>> His fight to join the Foreign Service has > helped others along the >>>> way. >>>> There are now four blind Foreign Service > officers stationed around >>>> the >>>> globe, the State Department said, among about > 170 disabled Foreign >>>> Service employees overseas. >>>> >>>> MR. RABBY said blind Foreign Service officers > had recently been >>>> restricted from adjudicating visa > applications because of their >>>> inability to verify photographs and > signatures of applications. >>>> >>>> Mr. Rabby, who attributes the decision to the > increased >>>> restrictions >>>> after the Sept. 11 attacks, said he did visa > work at the start of >>>> his >>>> career in London, with the assistance of a > reader, who verified >>>> documents for him. He asked the questions and > assessed the >>>> responses. >>>> >>>> The State Department is not yet completely on > the side of the >>>> angels, >>>> he said. A State Department official disputed > that there was a >>>> policy >>>> in place restricting the assignments of blind > diplomats. Decisions >>>> on >>>> assigning personnel, the official said, are > made on a case-by-case >>>> basis in accordance with the law. >>>> >>>> Even before Mr. Rabby headed out into the > world as a diplomat, he >>>> was >>>> already testifying before Congress on his > quest for the job. He >>>> said >>>> back then that he did not want to be put in a > pigeonhole as a blind >>>> diplomat. >>>> >>>> Blind people are as different from one > another as sighted people, >>>> he >>>> told members of the House Foreign Affairs and > Civil Service >>>> Committees >>>> in 1989. 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