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...essay on Mohandas Gandhi, George Orwell declared that saints must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. The earthly life of Thomas More, saint though he be, makes such presumption easy. More was a consummate political insider, upwardly mobile in a Machiavellian age and seemingly indispensable at the volatile court of England's tyrannical Henry VIII. With crafty language and veiled speech, he was master of the legalistic surmise and the affidavit of denial. He was the pre-eminent lawyer of the realm. At the same time, More could spit scatology with the foulest pamphleteers in that feverish dawn...
Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
...Hoyes' essay, originally published in Diversity & Distinction, she reflects on the complications race may bring to her dream of becoming a professional opera singer...
...think the space flight of John Glenn was only an exercise in nostalgia, as Charles Krauthammer seems to suggest in his commentary "What Happened to Destiny?" [ESSAY, Nov. 9]. Today travel between North America and Europe is not considered dangerous or particularly adventurous, but to draw on Krauthammer's analogy, 500 or even 200 years ago, it was quite an enterprise. Perhaps in another 36 years, when I am 69, I will benefit directly from a medical discovery made in space, or even be able to go to the moon on a commercial airliner because of people like Glenn...
Although I heartily agree with the gist of Krauthammer's Essay, I think it is important to consider the consequences of colonizing the moon before we rush to fulfill our "lust for the frontier." For some of us, the moon still represents dreams and romance. How would we feel if it were covered with golf courses, motels and fast-food joints? CRAIG HANSEN Fujishi, Japan...