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...strong leader indeed to cope with them all. Zardari leads a nation of over 170 million people, many of whom put their allegiance to their tribe first and hardly recognize that there is a Pakistani nation. It is under constant threat of an Islamist revolt, has serious economic problems, cannot count on the loyalty of many public officials, and possesses the nuclear bomb. I truly hope Zardari is up to managing all of that. Raheem Malik, Brisbane, Queensland...
...What a shame that in the caption to your photograph of "green Londoner" Cameron commuting on his bike, you forgot to tell us that a limousine follows him to carry papers he cannot put in his pannier. Some "green Londoner." Dennis O?Grady, Sheffield, United Kingdom...
...humor my friends and I have [Sept. 22]. In the theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Most of us who want to serve cannot join the Peace Corps. One way you can serve your community in almost any town is by joining a service club. Many are looking for members to help with civic projects. When you sign on, you are working with some great people who want to help--and you have fun doing it. Jim Montgomery, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...