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...typical liberal attitude to criticize and second-guess the government's tactics in the war against terrorism. Thank God, the media do not dictate U.S. policy and the general public is smarter than you are. Sam Thomas New Hyde Park, New York, U.S. Security in the Global Market Columnist Joe Klein's "It's economic security, stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised social safety net for American workers" would ease the collective...
...innings. Thirty years later, Bob Wickman shared the lead with 45 saves, pitching just 62 innings. That's half the work, double the reward. But it's a stretch to say that today's chiseled, athletic players are inferior to yesterday's stars. "Laughable," says Miami Herald sports columnist Dan Le Batard, 37. "What, anywhere in society, was better 25 years ago? You're using better training methods and previous education. And there's a worldwide talent pool...
...Ariel Sharon, still in a coma after a massive stroke last January - has tapped into a new pragmatism among Israeli voters. Co-existing with the Palestinians, especially with a government next door now run by Hamas, now seems an impossibility to most of them. A vote for Kadima, says columnist Sima Kadmon of Yedioth Ahronoth, is nothing less than the "victory of the desire of most of the public to rid themselves of the Palestinians... It is the expression of the desire to see a border with a Jewish state on one side and a Palestinian state on the other...
...seemed positively delighted when Washington issued a travel advisory last week warning U.S. tourists to beware of street protests. "I have the duty to underline the danger of the political left," said Berlusconi, "which wants to snuff out our opinions by using violence." As Pierluigi Battista, a columnist for Corriere della Sera, summed up the campaign on Friday: "Alarm, hysteria and a climate of the 'final showdown' is everywhere...
...Columnist Joe Klein's "It's Economic Security, Stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised social safety net for American workers" would ease the collective American insecurities and provide a more rational and less emotional view of the growing global economy, I don't see that becoming a reality anytime soon. Universal health insurance and government-subsidized pensions smack of socialism and would inevitably draw protest, even from those who would benefit most...