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Mind Your Morals The article's title, "What Makes Us Moral," contains the basic mistake we make in trying to understand ourselves and our fellow human beings [Dec. 3]. Nothing makes us anything. We make choices, which then affect our brain chemistry. In trying to be scientific, we often reverse the relationship. While Jeffrey Kluger may value the choices we make, he did not use the word choices in his examination of morality. The connection we have with our community is a powerful factor in how we choose to behave, of course, and we do place others outside our community...
...Sizing Up a Fresh Face Re "Obama's Iowa Surge" [Dec. 3]: Americans are tired of the same old bait and switch from Hillary Clinton. We need a new beginning, a fresh face with ideas for the future. What makes anyone think she will protect us if she's in the White House? She is transparently phony. People have opened their eyes and see a new beginning with Barack Obama. Albert Jackson, Newark...
...Setting The Record Straight The Dec. 3 Briefing story on Cyclone Sidr mistakenly included a picture of Bangladesh's President, Iajuddin Ahmed, instead of the country's chief adviser to the caretaker government - or de facto Prime Minister - Fakhruddin Ahmed, pictured here...
...Dec. 12 news article "College Opinion Poll Site Launched" gave an incorrect name for Tuck School of Business student Jason Freedman. His first name is not Peter...
...speech got little attention when Edwards first tried it out in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 29. Delivered from behind a lectern, the "two Americas" refrain sounded like the familiar trope of class warfare. "One America does the work while another America reaps the reward," Edwards intoned. "One America pays the taxes while another America gets the tax breaks." But as Edwards took it on the road-into living rooms and union halls and diners and high school gyms-it grew and evolved into something much, much bigger, into a cause. "The more I talked about it, the more...