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...failure to stand by the publishing of an individual's opinion undermines your reputation ("To Our Readers," March 20). Since the article was a personal account, it in no way reflected your official views, and while Fong's statements may have been offensive, that does not by any means deem them inappropriate for publication...
...Even if it represents something of a p.r. nightmare to the drug companies, the trial concerns a principle they deem sacrosanct - that in the market economics of the pharmaceutical industry, profit remains the only incentive for the development of new cures. It's a compelling argument, of course, within its own logic (even though its critics like to point out that some of the AIDS drugs, such as protease inhibitors, were originally developed in taxpayer-funded institutions). But it's difficult to fault the drug companies for behaving according to corporate logic, which is based, above all else...
...running for higher office, she has no reason not to tell them." Agent ROBERT BARNETT, who is also handling book deals for BILL and HILLARY CLINTON, has invited publishers to meet Tuesday with the Secretary of State in her posh, 7th floor private suite, a move some deem unethical. "I have a problem with government officials getting rich off their public service on public property," says the Center for Public Integrity's CHUCK LEWIS. Albright has not written a book proposal, but will outline ideas and field questions from publishers. Ballpark advance?--$700,000 to $800,000. And though...
...deem a phenomenon a trend is to imply its transience. In fashion, the life-span of a trend rarely exceeds four months, the length of a season, or roughly the time it takes a style to travel from New York to the rest of the country where, once embraced, it is unsentimentally dismissed by its original champions. So while the first half of the year was dominated by "ladylike" dressing, the prim skirt-and-sweater sets of demure eras past, the latter half celebrated all things leather. Along the way, women dallied with python skin, revived the Pucci print...
...wrong for Americans to relentlessly denounce countries that conduct elections that we deem to be unfair, fraudulent or illegal, yet when the same circumstances arise in our own country, assume partisan positions and pursue arguments that evade these very issues. The example we set will last much longer than the next President's term. DAVE BARKER Chicago...