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...week) in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She asserts that even though the male and female campers have the option of the occasional pedicure or facial, they spend the majority of their time exercising, working with personal trainers, learning about proper nutrition and getting serene through meditation and yoga. Says Mimi Klein of Sarasota, Fla., whose daughter Allison, 15, is heading back this summer for the second time: "I felt pretty strongly that it was important for a teenage girl to have a strong sense of self and understand how to take care of her body and mind as she went into...
...Klein's column "The Perils of Hands-On Diplomacy" [May 9] called attention to the photo of President Bush walking down an uneven path in Texas hand in hand with the infirm 80-year-old Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. There is nothing "unmanly"-as Klein characterized it-in extending a helping hand. Klein seems to lack any cultural awareness of the world outside...
...conscience and then living in accordance with it. Abortion, embryonic-stem-cell research, pornography and morally offensive "alternative" lifestyles would not have become so entrenched if we had given a hoot about living our faith. Paul Buckley Bennington, Vermont, U.S. Pressing Tony Blair I was pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked...
...pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach--the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away with misleading answers. It would be a joy to see Paxman grill...
...Klein wrote about the potential for problems as the Israeli government prepares to evacuate the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip [April 18]. One of the unanswered questions about disengagement is, What will become of the physical infrastructure? Klein quoted an Israeli security expert who noted that an important element determining the outcome of Gaza disengagement will be the Palestinian reaction to it. The expert said that if people "see Palestinians looting and destroying the settlements, and dancing on the rooftops--as they did when [Israel] left southern Lebanon--then it will be near impossible to resume negotiations...