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...thousands of plaintiffs, and the potential losses would be correspondingly larger. And the cost of defending the cases would escalate. Tobacco companies have succeeded in blocking 24 lawsuits around the country from proceeding as class actions, and they expected to do that in Florida too. But plaintiffs' lawyer Stanley Rosenblatt persuaded the Florida courts--over heated objections from the other side--to let him represent a stateful of smokers...
...ROGER ROSENBLATT and ANDREW CARROLL contributed to our Memorial Day cover stories. Rosenblatt, a TIME editor-at-large, writes about how the U.S. memorializes its dead, focusing on the new monument to the Oklahoma City bombing victims. "Over the years memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters...
...Roger Rosenblatt has a gift for putting thoughts into perfect words. His piece "Stand by Me--for a Moment," on loyalty--or the lack of it [ESSAY, Feb. 21], came at a good time for me, as I'm on my sixth job in nine years. When the delicate question of loyalty comes up in conversations with ex-colleagues, my comment is, "If you want loyalty, get yourself a dog." My last boss had two. GULU EZEKIEL New Delhi
...ROGER ROSENBLATT, as a Time Inc. editor-at-large, writes for several of the company's magazines, digesting and illuminating a wide range of topics. His particular interest in this week's tale of a six-year-old murdering a classmate, he says, stems from an article he wrote for TIME in 1982 that later became a book, Children of War, a story of children in war zones around the world, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. Rosenblatt, a regular essayist on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, says he was caught up in this story "not only because...
...always cotton to Rosenblatt, but his ruminations on the "dainty violence" writers visit upon one another were delicious! Even the sainted American novelist Flannery O'Connor could not resist taking part in the intramural sport. Asked if she thought universities "stifle writers," O'Connor replied, "Not enough of them." CLARE MEAD ROSEN Bloomfield Hills, Mich...