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Though I'm only 18, I understand the appeal of the old TV series that are being shown on niche cable channels [TELEVISION, July 16]. Television programs should convey morals. Viewers used to see classy series and educational shows, not the junk that is on now. The shows of the '60s taught lessons. I like them because of the things I have learned from them. You can even find out things by watching Captain Kangaroo. PHILLIP COHEN Honesdale...
...TIME: Is there a message you would like to convey to him? Megawati: I hope you're healthy and that you can continue to serve the nation...
...They were really able to convey their passion to us,” Akbar said...
...Thomas Jefferson is considered a tad overexposed. That's why Joseph Ellis' 1997 National Book Award-winning American Sphinx was such a coup. Here was the familiar Jefferson--egalitarian aristocrat, slaveholding author of the Declaration of Independence, globetrotting homebody--plumbed one step further. Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they didn't jibe with reality, and later on keeping his contradictions alive with an "internal ability to generate multiple versions of the truth...
...Matt Rees (Jerusalem): Sharon is trying to convey a sense that he's more at his wit's end with Arafat than he really is. And that's because he realizes that he's in a difficult position. After the Tel Aviv disco bombing, Arafat was hours away from suffering a very serious Israeli strike, and he wanted the cease-fire at that point to avoid retaliation. Three weeks later, he doesn't need the cease-fire as much. He's popular at home, and doesn't have to deal with an opposition as long as his interests...