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...Gerald M. Levin officially stepped down as CEO of AOL Time Warner last week, bringing to a close a remarkable business career. For the past 10 years he has sat atop a media empire whose vast holdings include Time Inc., publisher of scores of magazines, including TIME. There has been plenty written about Jerry's business career in these pages and elsewhere. But inside the Time & Life Building, he will be best remembered as a fierce advocate for the editorial excellence and journalistic integrity of our publications...
...United Nations Conference on Trade and Development concluded that for each dollar developing countries receive in aid they lose up to $14 just because of trade barriers imposed on the export of their manufactured goods. It's not as if the developing world wants any favors, says Gerald Ssendawula, Uganda's Minister of Finance. "What we want is for the rich countries to let us compete." Agriculture is one of the few areas in which the Third World can compete. Land and labor are cheap, and as farming methods develop, new technologies should improve output. This...
...preparing them to deal with the larger world in which they will soon be making their own decisions. Multi-million-dollar settlements to child-abuse victims do not aid the healing process. They are the result of opportunistic scams that should be recognized as a misuse of lawsuits. GERALD JONES Los Angeles...
...winning book Profiles in Courage. The collection of essays by more than a dozen authors praises individuals whose unwavering devotion to principle has often come at great cost. All celebrate independence of character, but some of the selections are particularly surprising. Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's contribution applauds President Gerald Ford for pardoning his disgraced predecessor, Richard Nixon, an act for which Ford was widely criticized...
That promise is the root of the problem, but after hours on the phone with Julie, it's clear Tricia thinks there's been a breakthrough and that compromise is suddenly possible. They already agree on one goal. "I spoke to former President Gerald Ford on April 23," Julie says, "and once the Bebe money is dispersed, he'll make it his personal crusade to get the Nixon library into the federal system." On Friday Julie was changing her schedule around to be at Tricia's side for a literacy event whose host was First Lady Laura Bush on Monday...