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...Click here for a photo essay on the war and displacement in Congo...
...Click here for a photo essay on the Byzantium exhibit...
...found Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "A Family Divided" to be eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...
...Click here for the photo essay "This Fragile Earth...
Trickle-Down Gluttony Kudos to Nancy Gibbs on her essay [Oct. 13]. As an early baby boomer, I was raised on the stories of thrift and sacrifice that came from my parents, who had grown up during the Depression and World War II. When George W. Bush suggested that the way to be patriotic after 9/11 was to go shopping, I was appalled. We have seen that message repeated over and over - including two incentive checks from our government so we could spend even more money we didn't really have. So excuse me if I have a hard time...