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...George W. Bush's failure to accept Rumsfeld's offers of resignation suggests that the President also has poor judgment. Lawrence H. Gordon Honolulu How can we as american citizens have any respect for those retired generals who spent their careers at the public trough and now want to destroy the boss they sucked up to while in command? They need to spend their time playing golf and sipping martinis at the club and leave the important decisions to our elected leaders. Joel Epperson Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. Why didn't the generals come forth with their criticism earlier? Competent leadership...
...shiny boulevards. And where in 1978 there were fewer than 500 individually run enterprises in the whole of the Tibet Autonomous Region, more than 5,000 new such enterprises came up in 1993 alone. The Chinese who have occupied Tibet for almost half a century may have failed to destroy it with their bulldozers and guns, but the Lhasa of old has nonetheless been developed to the point of extinction. One strategy that has proven particularly potent has been to triple the salaries of Tibetans working for the Chinese government, and then watch them construct gaudy "New Tibetan" houses that...
...hand, it is a patrimony not of any one country or culture, but of humankind as a whole. Yet Lascaux's robust longevity belies a frightening fragility. Five years ago, after the ill-conceived installation of new climatic equipment, Lascaux suffered an outbreak of fungal infection that threatened to destroy in a few years what thousands of millenniums had left largely unscathed. The cave's custodians are still struggling to eradicate this scourge. Since a journalist from French science magazine La Recherche was allowed into the cave three years ago, there has been no independent assessment of how they...
...cousins and a danger to the rest of the world is not only patronizing but also racist. If the U.S. and its friends can be trusted with nuclear weapons, why not any other country? The only way to ensure universal nuclear disarmament is for all countries to renounce and destroy the nuclear weapons they have acquired. As long as some have them, others will try to acquire them. Iran is not only surrounded by countries that possess nuclear weapons but is also threatened with attack from the U.S. Should we expect Iran to behave like a sitting duck? ERISA MUGABI...
...American citizens have any respect for those retired generals who spent their careers at the public trough and now want to destroy the boss they sucked up to while in command? They need to spend their time playing golf and leave the important decisions to our elected leaders. JOEL EPPERSON Birmingham...