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...next logical step. Another possibility is launching a propaganda campaign. If every television show had a 30-sec. piece featuring empty U.S. factories and dust blowing through American ghost towns, Chinese goods just might stop flying off the shelves. John A. Tardy Cordova, Tennessee, U.S. Sore Winner? Your item "A Hard-Liner For The People" [June 27] profiled Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the eve of the runoff vote in the Iranian presidential election, which he later won. Of Iranian politics, Ahmadinejad has said, "We did not have a revolution in order to have democracy." Perhaps he needs...
WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL BE AMAZON'S BIGGEST GIFT ITEM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON? One of our top gift items is the Philips HeartStart defibrillator. Defibrillators will continue to get cheaper and end up as a very common piece of household equipment, much like a fire extinguisher...
...That?s the thing about the Reigning World Champs with two and a-half months left to play: They seem to have the blahs. Maybe the return of Gabe Kapler will juice the clubhouse, maybe whatever move Theo makes in the next two weeks will. The crucial item to remember is: Twelve months ago the team was similarly scuffling at this point, and it wasn?t in first place. Tom Gordon was pitching well for the Yankees 12 months ago, not having yet burned out-as he will again this summer. Randy Johnson wasn?t really all that good...
...national debate plays out, Nelson, the Montana neurologist, remains under investigation. He describes himself as a cautious prescriber. A graduate of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, he also trained with the American Academy of Pain Medicine. He required that his patients sign a four-page, 21-item contract before getting any opioid treatment, pledging, for example, that they had never received a diagnosis of substance abuse or been involved in drug dealing, that they would not seek to replace lost medication or obtain early refills and that they would buy their drugs from only one designated pharmacy...
...seems as if I was, at the beginning of the week, hoping to publish an article in TIME on lessons of the 1996 welfare-reform law, but the article got put aside, as often happens when news overtakes story plans. My welfare-reform story ran as a short item two months later, and I was asked about it extensively. To me this suggested that Rove may have testified that we had talked about welfare reform, and indeed earlier in the week, I may have left a message with his office asking if I could talk to him about welfare reform...