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...commend TIME for the article on the investigation into the finances of Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority [WORLD, Nov. 18]. You revealed the past difficulty in uncovering corruption in the Palestinian Authority. The efforts of the team of American accountants who are helping the new Palestinian Finance Minister are welcome. Their investigation represents a step away from the failed leadership of Arafat and offers a more positive approach to coexistence with Israel. DAN FENDEL Piedmont, Calif...
...read recently that three of Harvard’s money managers made more than 900 times my annual salary last year (News, “Money Managers Win $15M Raise,” Dec. 3). I commend University President Lawrence H. Summers on finding and keeping such amazing individuals. A person who merits 300 times what I require to live in Boston must be absolutely over the top in intelligence, wisdom and capability...
...many teammates who enjoy playing with him, the coaches who commend his abilities or the many players that Armstrong has drilled into the turf during his career...
...early winner. One of the so-called New Radical unionists, he is telegenic and articulate, and seems the antithesis of the scruffy British union leaders who earned public revulsion in the strike-torn 1970s. As he barnstormed across the country to rally his members, Gilchrist made sure to commend those who abandoned their picket lines to help put out fires and to salute the soldiers who manned the ancient Green Goddess trucks. When the government said that in the event of a second strike, it would order soldiers to break through picket lines and seize new red fire engines, Gilchrist...
...writing to commend economics Lecturer Robert H. Neugeboren ’83 for his humility (News, “Econ. Lecturer Removed Amid Complaints,” Oct. 30). Regardless of his teaching abilities, Neugeboren is an example to every student and every professor because of his difficult recognition that “many of the criticisms [of the students]...were valid.” I am sure I am not the only one who has had a professor or a teaching fellow who brazenly stated at the beginning of the term that he or she knows what...