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Opening the Racial Floodgates I take offense at Ta-Nehisi Coates' article "When Race Matters" [Aug. 10]. Why is everyone apparently overlooking the fact that Henry Louis Gates Jr. immediately started mouthing off and playing the race card? A cop's job is tough enough. Why couldn't he have simply answered the officer's questions and said, "Thanks for looking out for us"? Jimmy Doich, RALEIGH...
...written in astoundingly assured prose that belies the author's youth (he is 25), particularly in his throbbing takes of contemporary Lahore, where he grew up and returned to after his undergrad years at Harvard. He describes everything from the "mewl of bargainers" at a fabric shop to card games played by bored guards at gated homes like the one in which middle-class narrator Zaki Shirazi lives. Also in the house are three related women whose lives mirror the tottering arc of recent Pakistani history - from partition to the bruised Bhutto years, caught between purdah and leggy Jane Fonda...
...least, GM wants to avoid creating a new competitor by providing the dowry for a tie-up among Magna, Sberbank and Opel. So on Aug. 21, the GM board rejected Merkel's plan and sent point man Smith back to Berlin. (Read "Busting Out: German Pol Plays the Cleavage Card...
...saying. Publisher Henry Luce reported a conversation with Joseph P. Kennedy: "He told me once that he didn't think Jack would get very far, and he indicated he wasn't very bright." As for Robert: "In the high stakes of inheritance, Bobby seemed to have drawn the worst card," Leamer writes. "Unlike his brothers, he wasn't a handsome child ... scrawny and small, always struggling to keep up." (See pictures from Ted Kennedy's life and career...
...year's deficit - and it accounts for 11.2% of GDP, the largest percentage since 1945. It's more money than we have circulating in actual currency and if added to the national debt, it will raise the tally by 13%. (To understand debt vs. deficit, think of a credit card: debt is the outstanding balance on the card while the deficit is the amount added each fiscal year.) At this rate, the Administration estimates that the U.S. could face a cumulative $9 trillion in deficits over the next decade - $2 trillion more than previously thought. (Read "How to Understand...