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...world turn its back on its own people? America may spend $30 billion reconstructing Iraq but quibbles about spending money on New Orleans. Let's hope that the recent Mardi Gras celebration will rally public opinion in favor of rebuilding the once proud city. Tony Keast Halifax, England On a Different Wavelength Joe Klein's column "Bush's broken political antenna" [March 6] remarked that in response to recent controversies, ranging from the debate over foreign control of U.S. ports to the awful news coming from Iraq and Iran, the President is beginning to sound "airy and out of touch...
...significant gender differences in the effect of aspirin on men and women. Aspirin is recommended to people who have had or are undergoing a heart attack, according to Julie E. Buring, principal investigator of the study. The study, which will be published in the print edition of the New England Journal of Medicine later this month, found that aspirin can reduce the risk of stroke in women, but has little or no effect on the risk of heart attack. The opposite is found in studies conducted with male participants, the study said. Researchers said that the study highlights the role...
...Collingham writes that this innovation is continuing in the Indian restaurants of England, and that new "Indian" dishes will be produced there. Purists in India may scoff at these creations, just as they mock chicken tikka masala. But the inventiveness of British-Indian cooking clearly adds to the appeal of India's culture throughout the world?which can only be good for India's tourism industry. The Hollywood actor Will Smith, recently in Bombay, said that one of the things he wanted to do in India was to taste "authentic chicken tikka masala." You can bet that no one told...
...upwards from there. This disconnect—whereby we vilify those who carry out repellent policies while bowing deferentially to those who devise them—was vividly in evidence here at Harvard last week. It would be unthinkable for a Harvard student organization to host, say, Private Lyndie England, who on the retina of the collective imagination will be forever giving the thumbs-up to the degradation of a fellow human being. But the Harvard Law School Federalist Society thought nothing of inviting Judge Jay S. Bybee, whose infamous “torture memo” of August...
TONY KEAST Halifax, England...