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Lessons from Mandela The cover picture of Nelson Mandela brought tears to my eyes [July 21]. His confident smile affirmed that, while we may go through difficult times, there is hope for the future as long as we embrace the ideals of this wonderful man. Maggie Lew, Grand Island...
...Your cover showed a soldier standing near a gun emplacement. A better photo would have been the one in Rory Stewart's article, in which two Kabul residents are holding hands as they cross an incomplete bridge. That picture more closely represents what is likely to help Afghanistan achieve its rightful future of peace and stability: a helping hand. Piyoosh Kotecha, Brisbane...
...Cracking Up Is Hard to Do There is no excuse for your flighty defense of the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as fist-bumping terrorists [July 28]. You ask if America has lost its sense of humor - America has not. But we have lost patience with the kind of hatemongering that drove the New Yorker to try to sell magazines by marginalizing the man who will be the next President of the United States. You should be ashamed of defending its decision to run that cover. Thomas Rajala, Stockton, California...
...comedian will tell you, there is always a joke or two that he wishes he had not told. Not because it wasn't funny but because it was over the top or in poor taste. Let's say the New Yorker decides to run a cover cartoon of Senator McCain in a wheelchair, with his wife Cindy carefully feeding him from an Ensure can so as not to stain his bib. Again, in poor taste. It is often said that when sarcasm misses its mark by a little, it misses by a mile. Raymond F. Ramirez, MABLETON...
...actions and accomplishments, not our rhetoric - and certainly not our jewelry - that define us as patriots. The flag pin on your cover has been a lightning rod for controversy during the presidential campaign, but it is not a litmus test for patriotism. Francis Scott Key wrote of the Stars and Stripes waving "o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave," not o'er the Brooks Brothers lapel. Tracy Leverton, VIENNA...