Sublime

Journal,

Bill Richards, a preternaturally cheerful man in his seventies, is a bridge between the two eras of psychedelic therapy.

Bill is the person to whom everyone turns when they need something. The word “no” just isn’t in his vocabulary. He fixes cars for women at his church. He coaches his son’s little league baseball team. His buddies call on him when they need help moving. He looks after his widowed mother every evening after work.

Robert has gone to Our House, an AIDS hospice. He seems very happy there and continues to manifest a steady change of attitude. At this very moment, I am looking at an advance directive, a document that states that Robert has chosen me to make medical decisions for him when he is unable to make them for himself. This is a humbling experience, and I

Bill could suffer just about any indignity with grace, except when someone had abused his trust.

He instructed Majority Leader Robinson to accept whatever changes were necessary. If a senator’s support could be obtained by adding his amendment, he said, add it. The resulting bill, said one Washington observer, “sought to legalize almost anything anybody could think up.”

BILL GATES

BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

from a fraternity brother who had moved