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COLUMNIST JOE KLEIN'S "THE BENETTON-AD PRESIDENCY" discussed the diversity of President Bush's choices for Cabinet posts [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. But diversity is not merely a difference of color or ethnicity but also a divergence of perspective, opinion and experience. If the President is really interested in diversity, he will do well to name a Cabinet that sees things differently, challenges convention and perhaps even dares to disagree, instead of simply achieving a comfort level that feels good. That's true diversity...
...OFFENDED BY THE CHARACTERIZATION OF HAM RADIO AS a "faintly embarrassing hobby" in the article "Blogs Have Their Day" [Dec. 27--Jan. 3]. Ham radio operators--I have been one for 47 years--provided emergency communication after the Indian Ocean tsunami. They have supplied similar public service in many other situations, including the Florida hurricanes. Our systems include thousands of repeaters that receive and transmit throughout the U.S., connections with the Internet and more. Ham radio bridges the gap between countries and peoples; there are more than 750,000 operators in the U.S. and many thousands more overseas...
...honeymoon didn't last long. After Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian President on Jan. 9, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon placed a congratulatory call to Yasser Arafat's successor and, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials, said he was "looking forward to meeting with you to discuss issues." Abbas responded that they would meet soon, "God willing." Four days later, the optimism was shattered, at least temporarily, when Palestinian militants killed six Israelis at a freight crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Sharon suspended ties with Abbas the next...
...Jan. 6, 2002, Christa Worthington, 46, a former fashion writer, was found dead, stabbed through the heart in a doorway of her bungalow. Alive and clinging to her was Ava, 21/2, her daughter, who had spent 36 hours alone with the body. The killer had stabbed Worthington so powerfully that the blade had left a mark in the floorboards beneath her. It appeared that Ava had tried to tend to her mother, dabbing her face with a washcloth. "Mommy fell down," she sobbingly told the person who found...
...appalled Britons by wearing a swastika armband to a party this month. Though the young royal issued a statement saying "It was a poor choice of a costume, and I apologize," Jewish groups called for him to show more contrition and attend a ceremony at Auschwitz on Jan. 27. This isn't the first time Harry's blunders have embarrassed the royal family. Last fall he socked a photographer outside a club; in 2002 he got caught smoking pot. Maybe, like the Prince Hal in Shakespeare's Henry IV, he's just setting himself up for a dramatic last-minute...