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Your article naming President-Elect Barack Obama as Person of the Year was insightful, interesting and original [Dec. 29]. After two elections in which the American people voted for the guy they'd most like to have a beer with, you illustrated why we voted a different way this time. We finally elected the smartest guy in the room. Erin Pagel-Mohr, REDLANDS, CALIF...
...Runners-Up Why are you wasting space on Warah Palin [Dec. 29]? Her time is past. Let sleeping dogs lie. Nothing would make me happier than to have a woman as our Chief Executive. However, she should be an able, qualified one, not a Miss Cutesy Pants. Doris Paster, SOMERSET...
Spending Where it Counts Re Inbox Dec. 22: Sol Kerzner, along with other South African hoteliers, donated a large sum to kick-start the fund for a new hotel school at the University of Johannesburg. Without this the school probably would not exist today. After the tragic death of Sol's son, the family started the Butch Kerzner memorial bursary fund for underprivileged gifted children to study in the hospitality industry. This will fund up to 10 children's studies next year. Beside all this is the example Kerzner has set for others to grow our industry. Henk Bredenoord...
Those We Lost in 2008 You describe the late Charlton Heston as a "figure of epic contradictions," citing his marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in the '60s and his leading the National Rifle Association in the '90s [Dec. 29]. I fail to see any contradiction. The man consistently fought in important and not entirely risk-free ways for the rights and dignity of individuals. John Loosemore, HANCOCK, MICH...
...Shoe Is Thrown in Baghdad I couldn't disagree more with what Bobby Ghosh wrote in "The Moment 12/14/08: Baghdad" [Dec. 29]. While I have been unhappy with most of President Bush's decisions, respect for the presidency should count for something. To me, Ghosh clearly disregards that with his less-than-objective rendition of objects being hurled at a U.S. (or any country's) President. What happened to that "journalists' code of objectivity" Ghosh writes about? Jeff Seyler, WILBRAHAM, MASS...