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...Claude Rains was over the gambling at Humphrey Bogart's joint in Casablanca back in the halcyon days of American idealism [June 21]. It's obvious that what went on in Abu Ghraib and Guant?namo was not the result of the actions of a few bad apples of inferior rank but a calculated policy formed in the upper reaches of the Bush Administration. How did we sink so low? Liberals and conservatives alike shudder as they contemplate this betrayal of American values. Hal Barwood San Anselmo...
...Setting the Record Straight Military Ranking In "The Making of John Kerry" [July 12], we incorrectly said Kerry returned home from Vietnam "with the rank of captain." When he was the officer in command of a Swift patrol boat in the Mekong Delta, Kerry would have been addressed as captain by his crew, but his official Navy rank in 1969, when he came back from Vietnam, was lieutenant junior grade...
...Rank-and-file employees could get the short end of the stick if companies are required to count stock options as an expense--which is almost certain to happen this year or next. Seventy-four percent of firms would reduce or eliminate broad-based option plans, according to a survey out last week from Mellon Financial's Human Resources & Investor Solutions group. But only 25% said they would cut back on options for executives. At right are some ways companies say they'll try to make up the lost options to their nonexecutive employees. Requiring firms to expense options would...
...children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books by other poets (Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney) that he produced at his small publishing house Sceptre Press, and Booth must rank as a giant of modern English letters. So why haven't more people heard of him? Many kids will appreciate his Music on the Bamboo Radio, about a boy stranded in Hong Kong by the 1941 Japanese invasion. Conservationists value Booth's many books and TV documentaries on African wildlife...
...Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. From early adolescence, Crick had no truck with truths arrived at by religious revelation as opposed to observation and experimentation. Upon learning that Cambridge University's science-dominated new college was planning to build a Christian chapel, he resigned from the rank of its Fellows. "Perpetuating mistakes from the past" was not Crick's way to move forward. ?By James D. Watson...