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...might ask ourselves if we, too, are guilty of making the hasty and vulgar variety of generalizations that are the pundits' bread and butter. Are we sometimes so eager, for example, to complete an essay as quickly as possible that we engage in merely superficial analysis? We appreciate insights, for sure, but do we always care to devote our own time and efforts to develop them on our own, especially when hurried, overly broad generalities will suffice...
Roger Rosenblatt is right: there can be no justice, including financial payments, to compensate for the Holocaust [ESSAY, April 12]. But how can one live with the hopeless assertion that here "injustice prevails"? If we confine the forces of good and evil to this world alone, evil will always win. SUSAN P. KEMPLE Southern Pines...
...calculating how much of a role was played by propaganda and video games in Harris and Dylan Klebold's killing spree. Quake and its ilk may have helped desensitize a generation--but you're blasting cyborgs, not classmates, and you're certainly not constructing pipe bombs. Harris' online essay on how to make these devices suggests that he made most of his discoveries through trial and error, not on the Net. The computer age may be giving kids a new outlet for their dark fantasies, but that hardly means it is turning them into killers...
Krauthammer's ill-considered essay belies his usual knee-jerk hostility toward everything Clinton does. Krauthammer claims that the President meant for his "doctrine" to be "universal," and then the author unwittingly cites cases of U.S. nonintervention that disprove this claim. In fact, Clinton has never said the U.S. seeks to stop all humanitarian abuses in the world. And just because a goal is not fully obtainable doesn't mean it is not worth pursuing. Clinton's policy in the Balkans may be too reactive, but it would indeed be immoral not to stop Milosevic's rapes and murders...
...words my very sentiments in his piece "Nothing Means Something" [STEVE LOPEZ, April 5]. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who thinks a little Y2K shutdown might not be so terrible. When I asked my 16-year-old what he thought of this essay, his reply was, "I wouldn't want to waste my life that way [doing nothing]." Mmmmmm...I think the first night this spring that I walk outside to sit and listen to the frogs croaking in the distance, I'm going to unplug the computer and take my son with...