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...high-tech scooter: Sorry, folks, but unless you can use this device while carrying an armload of groceries and a squirming three-year-old, the Segway's just a guy toy. SANDIE SCARPA Fort Pierce, Fla...
...opponents of the Administration are indignant that the Justice Department has actually gone so far as to arrest and jail foreign visitors to our country whose visas have expired or who have broken other laws. Am I the only person who does not understand this? JOHN J. THORNTON Tampa, Fla...
Fortunately for sellers, a lot of people with money are warming to island retreats. Bigelow's marketer, Rick Moeser, senior vice president of Sotheby's International in Palm Beach, Fla., says inquiries about the private islands he brokers have doubled since Sept. 11, to about eight a month. He unabashedly trumpets the islands' "privacy, seclusion--and safety." Bahamas Realty, one of that country's largest island brokers, reports a 25% jump this autumn in calls about its properties. "I get the sense," says George Damianos of Damianos Realty, another major Bahamas island agent, "that prospective buyers have decided there...
...military tribunals [THE LEGAL WAR, Nov. 26] to try those it considers terrorists, said, "The defendant has neither the absolute right to challenge the evidence against him nor the right to hear it." This statement sent chills down my spine. Is this still America? RICHARD A. BUSEMEYER Boca Raton, Fla...
DIED. JOHN KNOWLES, 75, author and onetime journalist whose career peaked early with his first and pre-eminent novel, A Separate Peace (1960), the story of a New England prep-school boy's search for self; near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. None of his eight other novels could match the critical and popular appeal of his prizewinning first book, published when...