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...Europe Tightens Its Belt Your story [Feb. 26] noted that statistician Enrico Giovannini is upset that people question official European inflation statistics; he claims that people have some "terrible problems of perception." Is it possible he has lost touch with reality? He is welcome to stay in my house for a month and do some accounting. Products such as cars, refrigerators and new television sets are out of our reach - we are only hoping that our old ones will last 10 more years. We go to a restaurant once in three months, and this year we have decided...
...Europe Tightens Its Belt Re "Is the Good Life Out of Reach?" [Mar. 5], about the effect of a common currency on the cost of living in the European Union: Peter Gumbel made no mention of Britain, an E.U. country that has spurned the euro and kept its pound sterling. Wouldn't a comparison of economic conditions in Britain and those in other E.U. nations tell us something about whether the common currency is to blame for some of the ills mentioned? Alan Campbell, Cape Town, South Africa...
...seems misguided to ignore faiths that millions of Americans practice each day; and a glance at the headlines further argues for an omnibus course. Yet could a school demand that its already overloaded kids take one elective if they take the other? Concerns about whether a Bible Belt Christian teacher could in good conscience teach a religiously neutral Bible course also plagued me. Was high school Bible study one of those great ideas that vaporizes when exposed...
...Europe Tightens Its Belt Re "Is the good life out of reach?" [Feb. 26], about the effect of a common currency on the cost of living in the European Union: Peter Gumbel made no mention of Britain, an E.U. country that has spurned the euro and kept its pound sterling. Wouldn't a comparison of economic conditions in Britain and those in other E.U. nations tell us something about whether the common currency is to blame for some of the ills mentioned? Alan Campbell, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
...said. He decided to write his second book “to protect myself. The more people that knew what happened, the safer I would be.” With two books—and movie deals for both of them—under his belt, Kolb says he plans to continue his writing career. “A lot of famous people from the intelligence world have contacted me,” he said. “[They say] ‘You’re one of the few people who have been able to explain intelligence...