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...Coretta Scott King and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust scholar and Nobel laureate. Last night’s ceremony, held at the Chelsea Piers complex on the West Side of Manhattan, also honored Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar, (R-Ind.), TV journalist Bill Moyers, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, and former national security advisor Brent Scowcroft...
...Hypocritical enviro-advocates abound these days, constantly reminding us to make sacrifices in the interest of the earth while forgoing few comforts themselves. Green activist and actor John Travolta likes to spend his free time toying around in one of his five private planes, including a commercial Boeing 707, racking up 800 tons of carbon emissions in the last year. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has managed to promote his idea of an environmentally friendly lifestyle by creating a hydrogen-fueled Hummer—a car that gets a whopping 10-15 miles per gallon—while crisscrossing the country...
...earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that is why activism comes so effortlessly to Harvard students—they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult...
...month on Heroes of the Environment. To mark that issue, I was delighted to join my TIME colleagues and more than 400 distinguished guests, including TIME Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons, TIME Warner President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, TIME Inc. CEO Ann Moore, actress and environmental activist Heather Graham, human-rights activist and former hostage Terry Waite, and philanthropist Sabrina Guinness at London's Royal Courts of Justice on Oct. 25 to honor our awardees...
...asked UBS to tell its Chinese client to “halt its operations in Sudan or implement a rigorous corporate governance policy that would mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...