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...deeply disturbed and offended by your most recent PBHA article, PBHA Board To Consult Cabinet" (Aug. 15). In it, numerous factual errors and misinterpretations of complex topics were presented, resulting in factual contradictions and skewing of my position in the PBHA-Harvard negotiations...
...noted in my e-mail to the Cabinet on Aug. 11 (which you cite in this article), reporting is an incredibly complex topic. The nature of finding a compromise is to define what areas Harvard needs reporting from PBHA's executive director and what areas PBHA needs to effectively maintain its programs. A compromise is an ideal situation that both sides have been working on, not an "imperfection" to which one has to "capitulate...
...commentary on the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary of independence from the British, Salman Rushdie provides a brutal but honest assessment of the grim political and social scenario in India [WORLD, Aug. 11]. I often wonder what has wounded India more--200 years of colonial rule or 50 years of pseudosocialist government by lackluster, dishonest politicians. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...
Romance writer Nora Roberts should be flattered that rival author Janet Dailey thought Roberts was so creative and talented that her words were worth copying [PEOPLE, Aug. 11]. In fact, maybe Dailey's plagiarizing of Roberts' phrases and ideas was a worthwhile endeavor. Edgar Allan Poe starts The Fall of the House of Usher with "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course...
...saga reignites old concerns aboutwhether the government, apart from issuing warnings about cooking meat properly (160[degrees] for a standard patty), does enough to ensure food safety. Nicole Schlegelmilch got sick in early July, but, her mother Ann complains, "I didn't hear from the health department until Aug. 9." And the hospital epidemiologist said Nicole's illness was the first the hospital knew of an E. coli outbreak--although it had been several weeks since that suspect patty was turned in by the first victim. Why did officials take so long to interview E. coli victims, and why didn...