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Several years ago, noted baritone and TIME subscriber Robert Goulet wrote a fan letter--on gold-embossed stationery--to my friend and fellow writer Joel Stein. Soon after, a trip to Las Vegas was booked, with Joel graciously bringing me along to dine with Robert and his wife Vera beneath Picassos at the Bellagio. There were stories about Richard Burton and Ed Sullivan, choruses of Camelot and a few empty bottles. More Goulet dinners followed, each one unforgettable in its own way. Robert was famous for almost 50 years. He got the best tables and told great stories about people...
...investigators when he called a traveling violation. (Talk about previously unknown!) But now all is well, because the regular season begins Tuesday night, when the champion San Antonio Spurs with center-of-the-moment Tim Duncan take on the Portland Trail Blazers with center-of-the-future...uh...Joel Przybilla...
...Phony Friendship Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilarious and true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct. 15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion - it's a great procrastination tool - but it serves mainly to allow streams of self-important updates from people who are not true friends, and to make users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their own. Elizabeth Findel, Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
...Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilariously true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct. 15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion, but it mainly streams self-important updates from people who are not true friends and makes users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their...
...from fostering innovation to biasing research is far from simple. “The influence of industry in academia is really a double-edged sword because professors may know a lot about gene expression but not a lot about manufacturing and marketing,” said study co-author Joel S. Weissman, an associate professor at HMS. “But a lot of people are starting to realize that the influence of drug companies in health care is pervasive and may be more than we want it to be.” According to Marjorie E. Powell, senior assistant...