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Palin's Progress I found myself in tears reading Nancy Gibbs' essay [Sept. 15]. Now I know that I'm not alone. I've been struggling to express my feelings to my circle of liberal friends. As a 60-year-old retiree and single parent who raised a child in the 1970s while working full-time on my career, I am haunted by my roads not taken. This article expresses why I won't be voting in this election. I can't vote for the McCain-Palin ticket in good conscience, due to their stand on issues that are dear...
This is the first intelligent essay I have read in the mainstream media regarding Palin. I am a moderate Democrat but was very disappointed at the obvious partisan trashing of Governor Palin by so many of my fellow women. Their intemperate critiques fly in the face of the feminist principles they claim to uphold. Gibbs has the good sense to realize that the issues successful women face are the same regardless of political ideology. Jeanne Mallett, WASHINGTON...
...congratulate Gibbs for her thoughtful essay, which excellently describes the challenges that married working mothers face regularly, without being judgmental for political purposes. Everyone should admire Governor Palin's organizational and management skills to be able to achieve as she has, irrespective of politics. Tim Kasparek, GOODYEAR, ARIZ...
...should government (and by extension taxpayers) even be contemplating such action? The clearest explanation is probably that of Paul McCulley, a managing director of the money-management firm PIMCo, who wrote an essay last summer on "The Paradox of Deleveraging" that continues to resonate in financial and economic circles. When a debt-fueled investment bubble bursts, financial institutions that make their living off borrowed money (banks, investment banks, hedge funds) tend to want to reduce their leverage - their ratio of debt to equity. That's perfectly rational. But when everybody does it at the same time, big trouble ensues...
...rebel so much as the archetypal Harvard Man, right down to his professed love of two of Harvard’s largest classes, Justice and Positive Psychology. His self-authored biography reads not like a dissident’s manifesto, but instead sounds vaguely like a bizarre college essay or cover letter, establishing his academic, athletic, and extracurricular credentials. Di Pasquale is, in many ways, the ultimate representative of a Harvard culture obsessed with self-promotion. There really is no more perfect monument to grade-grubbing, fellowship-applying, e-recruiting Harvard than a student standing naked on Weeks Footbridge wrapped...