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...your item on the Riverkeeper environmental group and its chief attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. [PEOPLE, July 3]: Kennedy did not "secretly" rehire William Wegner as a consulting scientist. Riverkeeper's executive staff openly elected to hire Wegner, a talented scientist...
...your item on who has the most honorary degrees [NOTEBOOK, May 22], you erroneously reported that "nobody beats Bill Cosby, who has (his spokesman thinks) more than 100." In fact, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, has received 144 honorary degrees for his more than 50 years of contributions and service to higher education, the Catholic Church and the nation. Father Hesburgh, now 83, served as Notre Dame's president from 1952 to 1987. DENNIS K. BROWN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Public Relations and Information University of Notre Dame Notre Dame...
...that's true, then drug companies and Western governments have lost a major excuse for inaction. When the G-8 economic summit convenes this week in Okinawa, AIDS will be a major item on the agenda. And while the African crisis may worsen, it's at least possible that last week's consciousness-raising meeting in Durban could mark a change in attitude--and perhaps even a tiny glimmer of hope...
Rally to Stop Sweatshops, For a Living Wage, Immigrant Rights and Global Economic Justice (Thursday, August 17): A march from L.A.'s garment district to the Staples Center, where it will join a mass rally (see next item...
...color coded by season. He has kept a running account of his every waking moment for the past 23 years--14 in the Senate, eight in the Governor's mansion, even his days in the state legislature. Graham writes down every meal, every meeting, every person he meets. No item is too small. "I would rather have more detail than less," Graham told TIME. On the September day in 1994 his daughter Cissy gave birth to a son, his notebook read...