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...given away more than $21 million, mostly to local charities and schools. But since he was worth $8 billion, the local papers were not impressed. Even his parents were concerned. Before Bill and Melinda were married in 1994, Mary Gates, his mother, gave a letter to Melinda in which she stressed the great opportunities the two would have, as well as the responsibilities. "From those to whom much is given, much is expected," she wrote...
Alex Perry's Letter From Bombay, "Could You Please Make Me a Shade Lighter?" [Dec. 5], reported that the desire for a lighter skin color is a national obsession in India. But Indians are not the only people who view fair skin as an ideal. It is no secret that many throughout the world feel the same way. Indeed, most of mankind does. Some of us as children were exposed to fairy tales like Snow White, in which the wicked queen asks, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" NIZAM VIRMANI Rolling Meadows...
...REACH US TIME LETTERS TO THE EDITOR * Our e-mail address is letters@time.com Please do not send attachments * Our fax number is 1-212-522-8949 * Or you can send your letter to: TIME Magazine Letters, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. 10020 * Letters should include the writer's full name, address and home telephone and may be edited for purposes of clarity and space...
Representative Anthony D. Weiner (D-N.Y.), wrote a letter to University President Lawrence H. Summers on Tuesday urging him to return the recent $20 million gift for Islamic Studies given by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud. Weiner said in a press release issued Dec. 13 that American universities should not accept gifts from the Saudi royals, who “have a record of funding terrorist organizations.” “August institutions like Harvard University and Georgetown University should not accept funding from a family that bankrolls terrorist organizations...
...from Harvard libraries. The House of Representatives voted 251-174 Wednesday to renew a revised version of the Patriot Act, which expires Dec. 31. But at least one senator has vowed to filibuster the measure, and a bipartisan group of senators, including four Republicans and five Democrats, released a letter Wednesday criticizing the act’s failure to adequately address civil liberties concerns, especially those pertaining to the FBI’s access to library records. Under current law, the FBI could demand that libraries release the record of what books an individual has checked out, as well...