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When former Brown & Williamson executive Jeffrey Wigand went up against Big Tobacco in 1995, he had to have a bodyguard. Now, thanks in part to a Hollywood movie, The Insider, he is a full-time crusader, arguing for smoking bans around the world and testifying last week in a federal racketeering case against tobacco companies. He spoke with TIME's Amanda Ripley...
...person to download content illegally. "People want to make an example of me," he says. Sure, he has a DESTROY CAPITALISM sticker on his PC. But he still gets his movies the old-fashioned way: with a mail-order subscription to NetFlix. --With reporting by Sandeep Kaushik/ Seattle and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles...
Theater producer-director George C. Wolfe, directing his first film, took Blues to the stage, and here he adds a vast cast and a kinetic style. He has gathered a stellar ensemble, including Santiago-Hudson as well as Delroy Lindo, Louis Gossett Jr. and Jeffrey Wright, as the various misfits who pass on their stories to Ruben...
...Bradley writes that Summers repeatedly called Jeffrey Wolcowitz, the senior lecturer of economics who managed the College’s curricular review until this fall, instructing him to insert several recommendations into the review report which were not approved by faculty committees...
...Poor Suffer More In his essay "The Class System of Catastrophe" [Jan. 10], economist Jeffrey D. Sachs argued that "what the rich world suffers as hardships the poor world often suffers as mass death." That says it all. The U.S. has, with its wealth and abundant resources, the ability to lead the world in reaching out to those far less fortunate. Instead, over the years we have chosen to put our resources into military spending and most recently into a war that has become an enormous money pit. Perhaps if we had used our resources more wisely over the years...