Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis is Elite
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/01/3246273/decock-hockey-diplomacy-was-his.html
The sense of helplessness was overwhelming. Tripp Tracy’s younger brother had been arrested and imprisoned in Venezuela, accused of espionage. The Carolina Hurricanes television analyst and his family were scrambling to figure out what to do next.
Grasping at any thread of hope, Tracy mined his hockey connections. It was only through a quirk of the schedule the Hurricanes flew to Pittsburgh the next day for the final game of the 2012-13 season. There, he saw his old college teammate, Penguins forward Craig Adams, whose father-in-law was the one man Tracy thought might be able to help: Paul Cellucci, the former governor of Massachusetts and U.S. ambassador to Canada.
Cellucci would have the back-channel access to lay a path for Tim’s release. He was also in the final, fatal stages of ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Cellucci could only communicate through staccato emails, painstakingly dictated through a computer program or with the help of his wife, but his mind was as sharp as ever even as his body withered.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/01/3246273/decock-hockey-diplomacy-was-his.html#storylink=cpy
The sense of helplessness was overwhelming. Tripp Tracy’s younger brother had been arrested and imprisoned in Venezuela, accused of espionage. The Carolina Hurricanes television analyst and his family were scrambling to figure out what to do next.
Grasping at any thread of hope, Tracy mined his hockey connections. It was only through a quirk of the schedule the Hurricanes flew to Pittsburgh the next day for the final game of the 2012-13 season. There, he saw his old college teammate, Penguins forward Craig Adams, whose father-in-law was the one man Tracy thought might be able to help: Paul Cellucci, the former governor of Massachusetts and U.S. ambassador to Canada.
Cellucci would have the back-channel access to lay a path for Tim’s release. He was also in the final, fatal stages of ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Cellucci could only communicate through staccato emails, painstakingly dictated through a computer program or with the help of his wife, but his mind was as sharp as ever even as his body withered.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/01/3246273/decock-hockey-diplomacy-was-his.html#storylink=cpy
