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...tougher to track, but they're immensely rewarding." Religion is by no means Van Biema's only interest. Since he came to TIME three years ago from our sister publication Life, he has written about everything from natural disasters to Forrest Gump. "I think it was the most unpopular essay TIME ever published," says Van Biema of his anti-Gump manifesto. "I'll have to write another soon...
Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...
Juan E. Garcia '99 wrote this spring that JFK, by promoting "hope and optimism, courage and sacrifice," gave the world "more than just a glimpse of his potential, [his words] evoked the potential of those listening." And Brandon Hofmeister '99, asserted in a moving personal essay that JFK's words still have the power to pull people toward him. "When I consider John F. Kennedy," Hofmeister wrote, "I am able to see the man, but I believe the myth.... My feelings are more powerful and more important than my dispassionate analysis of his accomplishments. This is not ignorance...
...love; homosexuals love; ergo marriage is for them. He and others push the argument further by claiming that denying homosexuals access to this fundamental societal institution is a denial of their civil and human rights. Citing the philosopher Hannah Arendt, who proposed same-sex marriage in a pioneering 1959 essay, Sullivan suggests that the right to marry whomever one wishes is an elementary human right, part of the Declaration's inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness--or a long-term partner, as the case...
...partly because he never, ever reveals what he hears, and partly because what he sees through his camera invariably tells a powerful story. "His instincts are unerring, almost prescient," says TIME picture editor Michele Stephenson. The proof, in case anyone still has any doubt: Bentley's poignant photo essay in this week's issue detailing what are probably the most remarkable 48 hours in Dole's political career...