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...been brilliant - which Sorkin is capable of when he stows his soapbox - so to overlook its less-than-brilliance would be condescending charity that Sorkin does not need from me. Besides which, I live in New York City. I claim no special victimhood, but I've seen firsthand the effects of the crimes of Sept. 11 on neighbors, friends, complete strangers. Which is to say, I need no reminder that these are horrible times, times that demand kindness and goodwill, that challenge your faith in anything decent. But if "returning to normal" means anything, it means not swallowing the cheap...
...hope the U.S. may begin to export democracy more vigorously. I grew up in Cairo and was a journalist there for many years, and I have seen firsthand the effects of institutionalized brutality and an endemic disregard for human rights. I hope that in the future the U.S. will be less inclined to accommodate tin-pot autocrats in the interest of economic stability and more willing to use economic and diplomatic pressure to bring about a global acceptance of the freedoms we take for granted in North America. MOHAMED RAGHEB Toronto...
...barbarous attacks, which hurt all people who value human life, regardless of their background or beliefs. I am also outraged anyone could claim that such cold-blooded and cowardly acts were religious in purpose; they are certainly not sanctioned by Islam. When I drove home from Washington and saw firsthand the devastation at the Pentagon, I could not help crying and wondering what the world was coming to. ATHAR A. PIRZADA Springfield...
There are two stories to be told of last Tuesdays attack on the World Trade Center. Television anchors and news cameras report the most familiar of them. The other is told by the relief workers and volunteers who have seen the wreckage firsthand. Last week, a number of Harvard students went to New York City to do just that...
What has academic administrators around the country so worried is that they know rulings like the UGA decision could dramatically change the racial makeup of their campuses. The Berkeley campus of the University of California saw this firsthand when it was forced by California's Proposition 209 to switch to race-blind admissions. Underrepresented minorities in the student body dropped sharply, from 25% to 11%. At the University of Texas School of Law, the number of black first-years fell to just four the year after the school was ordered to adopt race-blind admissions--from 38 the year before...