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...being no. 101," Joel Stein lamented that physician Paul Farmer had the ignominious distinction of placing 101st on the list of the TIME 100 [April 26]. Stein suggested that the exclusion of Farmer, an infectious-disease specialist who spends most of his time at a charity hospital in Haiti, hinged on the selfless doctor's lacking "a publicist, agent, manager or even a stylist." Let me remind Stein of author Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a brilliant and poignant testimonial to Farmer's altruism, as well as a chronicle of his dedication to eradicating diseases in poor countries. With...
...Being No. 101," Joel Stein lamented that physician Paul Farmer had the ignominious distinction of placing 101st on the list of the TIME 100 [April 26]. Stein suggested that the exclusion of Farmer, an infectious-disease specialist who spends most of his time at a charity hospital in Haiti, hinged on the selfless doctor's lacking "a publicist, agent, manager or even a stylist." Let me remind Stein of author Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a brilliant and poignant testimonial to Farmer's altruism as well as a chronicle of his dedication to eradicating diseases in poor countries. With...
...with popular hostility to U.S. forces threatening to boil over, the U.S. may not be able to wait. In response to the dismal performance of its Iraqi recruits this month, the military has sent General David Petraeus, the celebrated commander of the 101st Airborne Division, back to Iraq to oversee the recruitment and training of new Iraqi military personnel. U.S. Administrator L. Paul Bremer reversed his year-old decree banning senior members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from holding any government jobs--a policy that gutted Iraq's military and police of most of their top leaders...
...tried to make Farmer feel better by telling him that other important people missed the list, like Tony Blair, Alan Greenspan, Colin Powell and Paula Abdul. I also suggested that he put on his resume "101st on TIME's list of 100 Most Influential People," but Farmer told me his resume is "Harvard format" and has no place for it. "But I'll make sure and tell people here in rural Haiti about it later in the morning," he said. "I'm sure the patients will be anxious to know about...
...will eventually emerge from the wreckage, at which point the U.S. could conceivably reduce the number of its troops significantly. But getting there requires a commitment of at least several more months of American blood and treasure. As his troops raced toward Baghdad last March, the commander of the 101st Airborne Division, Major General David Petraeus, asked a question that is both basic and haunting: "Tell me how this is supposed to end?" More than a year down the road, we still don't know the answer. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper and Mark Thompson/Washington; J.F.O. McAllister/London; and Andrew...