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...institution called into question as it lurches from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations, job cuts and threatened strikes. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively) that the monarch had stormed out of a photo session. That scandal claimed a number of scalps, including the boss...
...very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed but very little is done. Here's hoping Burma does not become another one. Peter Cole, Condé Ste. Libiaire, France...
...people at will, as has happened on so many occasions in the past century. Is morality applicable only on a small scale? We get the politicians we deserve, goes the saying. But do the gentle, life-revering Buddhists of Burma and Tibet deserve the thugs who control them? Peter Phillpotts, Matlock, England...
LEAVE IT TO THE COMEDIAN to have the last laugh. Joey Bishop outlived all the more famous--and more raucous--Rat Packers. By the 1960s he had earned stardom alongside buddies Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. But he was never completely overshadowed by the better-known members of his cohort. In 1960 TIME wrote, "Theoretically, Joey has bottom billing, [but] as soon as he starts talking he is recognized as top banana in a newly assembled comedy act that is breaking up Vegas." Bishop later appeared in his own sitcom and filled in about...
...very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed but very little is done. Here's hoping Burma does not become another one. Peter Cole, CONDÉ STE. LIBIAIRE, FRANCE