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...local level, we’re delighted that the senator from the state we represent is being honored,” Pickerill said. Other notable Americans who have been named honorary knights include former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, author Elie Wiesel, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell...
...mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it's designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It's also intended to defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel not bailed at the last minute to attend - oh, bitter irony of the red-carpet campaign trail! - a bris. (See pictures of Winslet in her 10 best...
...connected whether we like it or not, and our collective energies can change things for the better, while our collective indifference can kill us. Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel knows this all too well. What must Wiesel be thinking right now? His Foundation for Humanity destroyed by a big-shot Jewish financier? Impossible. But the foundation had $15.2 million under management with Bernard Madoff Investment Securities. This represented substantially all of the foundation's assets. And the double hit for charities like Wiesel's is that there will be no tax recovery available...
...this ruin, Wiesel's foundation, in a statement of grace, found something inspiring: "The values we stand for are more needed than ever ... We shall not be deterred from our mission to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice around the world." They've been hit, but they are not down. Life and work...
...Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize--winning author and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University...