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...Michael Jackson trial [June 27]. Although Jackson was found not guilty of child molestation, the subject of molesting young boys is not humorous, and your attempt to derive light entertainment from the case was distasteful and irresponsible. Amid all the media hype, this trial was never going to be fair, and the resulting verdict was the only one possible under the circumstances. Given the global problem of child exploitation, Time showed a remarkable lack of responsibility and sensitivity. Keith Noble Nontahburi, Thailand Of Terrorism and Detainees I appreciated your article on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th hijacker...
What is ROMAN POLANSKI'S good name worth? £50,000 ($87,000) plus court costs, according to a London jury. The director of Chinatown and The Pianist won a libel case against Vanity Fair for a 2002 story that portrayed him as trying to seduce a Scandinavian model on his way to the 1969 funeral of his wife Sharon Tate, who was murdered by followers of psycho guru Charles Manson. The magazine stood by the story but said that the incident happened a few weeks later than reported...
...java shower for an ad campaign for the British charity Oxfam. "If I'm paying nearly $3 for a cup of coffee and some Ethiopian farmer gets 2% of that," he says, "where does the rest of it go?" Saying he is reluctant to be "just a windbag" on fair trade, Firth has also invested in a chain of coffee shops in London that pledges to compensate the crop's farmers fairly. He has worked the counter and participated in coffee tastings. "You swirl, you spit, and someone talks poetry about it," he says...
...good thing that John Roberts has been universally described as decent, funny, civil and fair, since he may be joining a court with a long history of pugilists, ideologues and misanthropes who have somehow made it past the U.S. Senate. Justice James Clark McReynolds, who served until 1941, was, in the words of historian David Garrow, a "drooling anti-Semite" who refused to speak with fellow Justices Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo or have his picture taken with them. Chief Justice Fred Moore Vinson was a glorified drinking buddy of President Harry Truman's whose sudden death was hailed...
...wonderful things to come," says Dorothea Liddell. He was way clever, she recalls, so much so that if he didn't get a concept she knew she had to teach it again, but "he never flaunted his intelligence over the other kids." Classmate Betsy Starr Swan remembers the science fair in which her team's water-purification exhibit lost out to a Roberts-designed automatic table fork. "I don't think he ever lost a spelling bee. We'd all line up at the chalkboard, but we knew John was going to win." When he got things wrong, classmates assumed...