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Today in Times Comment

• Marina Litvinenko: Alexander Litvinenko: a wife's plea
• Matthew Parris: Thrashed in a nude House of Lords
• Andrew Tyrie: A fantasy that will bankrupt us
• Charles Bremner: Nicolas Sarkozy - Psycho tamed
• Robert Crampton: Who was the Fifth Beatle?
• Bronwen Maddox: Promises, promises, but can he deliver them?
• Sandra Parsons: Who needs Miss Bimbo?
• Ann Treneman: Interpreters not needed for verbal bling tour de force
• Peter Riddell: We’re in limbo, waiting for the slowdown to bite

And from the rest of the papers...

• Philip Booth: (The Telegraph) - Financial institutions must be allowed to fai
• Alan Cochrane: (The Telegraph) - An independent Scotland should reflect people not politics
• Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - Internet savvy children live in techno-Narnia
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - A historic compromise with France is exactly what Britain needs
• David Hockney: (The Guardian) - Pictures and power
• Jack Straw: (The Guardian) - The £37,000 question
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - Overwhelming and still underestimated factors propelled Blair into war in Iraq
• Adrian Hamilton: (The Independent) - Our unpredictable and troublesome guest
• Janet Street-Porter: (The Independent) - Why should MPs get special treatment?
• Keith Waterhouse: (The Daily Mail) - O Lord, give Dawn the wisdom to see there are some bad habits she cannot change
• John Gapper: (The Financial Times) - It is time for reflection, not regulation on banking

And from around the world...

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - The Uncle Al election
• Nicholas D.Kristof: (The New York Times) - Obama, clinton - and echoes of Nader
• George F. Will: (The Washington Post) - Bleeding hearts but tight fists
• Daniel Henninger: (The Wall Street Journal) - The Democratic primary is starting to look like World War I
• Robert I. Rotberg: (International Herald Tribune) - Dark clouds over Zimbabwe
• Brahma Chellaney: (The Japan Times) - Prolonged unrest in Tibet could unravel China's monocracy

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

George Will, who got his start at William Buckley's "National Review," is one of the most articulate conservative commentators of our time. The Rockefellers and the other colossal capitalists of their time gave a good deal of their money to philanthropic causes, but believing in self-help and individual initiative, shied away from private charity. The liberal may well say that their public charity was a way of salving their business conscience and an attempt to deflect criticism of their quasi-monopolistic methods. Still, it cannot be doubted that Rockefeller University in New York is an outstanding research institution and Rockefeller Center a source of visual pleasure to many.