Word: april
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...should pay heed to Senator John McCain's strategy: bringing the full weight of American air power to bear and making preparations to use ground forces in Kosovo [VIEWPOINT, April 12]. National debate should no longer focus on whether the U.S. has an interest in the Balkans; this decision was made years ago. Rather, the U.S. should address Slobodan Milosevic with resolve, not only to protect the Kosovars but also to retain credibility. Senator McCain is correct to assert that a failure to act decisively undermines U.S. credibility and opens the door to aggressive regimes. JOHN GAVENONIS Berkeley, Calif...
Roger Rosenblatt is right: there can be no justice, including financial payments, to compensate for the Holocaust [ESSAY, April 12]. But how can one live with the hopeless assertion that here "injustice prevails"? If we confine the forces of good and evil to this world alone, evil will always win. SUSAN P. KEMPLE Southern Pines...
...year-old survivor of advanced breast cancer, I find it difficult to muster any sympathy for Joanne Motichka [MEDICINE, April 12]. First she chooses to have a mastectomy, then she gets rich from the pictures of her scarred chest, and finally she sues the physician who probably saved her life. What would she have done if he had given her a lumpectomy and then she had suffered a recurrence? Losing my breast was a sad experience, but I have learned that my breast was not the focus of my femininity and sexual appeal. I am now a precious woman...
...next wave" in fashion so vividly displayed in your report on young designers [FASHION, April 12] won't find me waving back. As long as fashion designers make bizarre, impractical clothes for 5-ft. 10-in. anorexic models and ignore a 5-ft. housewife who is nowhere near a size 10, I won't buy. ELIZABETH FIFIELSKI San Marcos, Calif...
...Dead? April 8, 1966 3,430 2. Who Was Jesus? Aug. 15, 1988 2,121 3. Is Feminism Dead? June 29, 1998 2,004 4. Whose America? July 8, 1991 787 5. Is Freud Dead...