Word: columnists
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...In "The Reform Action Figure" [April 4], on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's war against the public employees' unions, columnist Joe Klein characterized them as "special interests" protecting their "unaffordable fringe benefits and antiquated work rules." But Klein should have noted that some states made the kind of pension-plan changes favored by the Governor--and then switched back to the original plans when it was realized that the changes left retirees without enough to live on. If this issue ever reaches voters, I'm hopeful that Californians will have seen enough Terminator movies to recognize the difference between...
...Stubborn or Sour? Columnist Joe Klein's "the creative Stubbornness of Harry Reid" [March 28], on the Senate minority leader's success in blocking Republican-sponsored legislation, should have been called "The Sour-Grapes Obstructionism of Harry Reid." Why glorify Reid's antics when there is so much that needs to be accomplished in Washington? Donald Nagy Chino Valley, Arizona...
...Columnist Drew C. Ashwood can be reached at ashwood@fas.harvard.edu...
...literary world doesn’t appear to have entirely avoided the trend either, with debuts by everyone from James Frey to Yale Daily News sex columnist Natalie Kirinsky garnering attention at every echelon of cultural criticism. But the biggest winner in the scramble for fresh blood has been Jonathan Safran Foer, who was reportedly only 20 when he wrote his first New York Times bestseller, “Everything is Illuminated...
...fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop, who saw in them the lineaments of a progressive new China, ready to enter the American Century...