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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...
...torture is inherently immoral. The United States should never stoop to such a practice. Outside of the political arena, there doesn’t seem to be much confusion. Institutions such as the UN Convention against Torture, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and an open letter to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed by over 100 American law professors have had no trouble with correctly defining waterboarding as a revolting and illegal form of torture. Even Republican candidate John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, has openly expressed his disapproval of waterboarding, telling...
...halt its operations in Sudan or implement a rigorous corporate governance policy that would mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
Students can send the same message even more directly by visiting UBSPetition.org. There, you can sign a letter to UBS chairman Marcel Ospel stating that you will not apply for a job or internship at UBS until the investment bank cleans up its act in Sudan. Specifically, Ospel must comply with the reasonable recommendations set forth by Wiesel and his fellow Nobel laureates. Tell Ospel that as long as he chooses to profit from genocide, he won’t be able to profit from...
...wife has a ball signed by former Sox catcher Carlton Fisk, which she keeps under glass like the Hope diamond. In Boston, baseball is all about hope, and one ancient diamond. And so my wife is still waiting for a reply to the fan letter she mailed to Fisk, care of Fenway Park...