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Time for a Family Chat Re Joe Klein's "A father's inadvertent wisdom" [Dec. 4]: There appears to be an elephant in the living room of the Bush household. When Daddy can't discuss Iraq with his son because the son is in denial and Daddy doesn't want the son to feel grief, we have a gravely dysfunctional family. The only solution is an intervention not only by the son's immediate family but by our elected representatives as well. Please, Daddy Bush, gather the family and have that talk with your son. Marianne Ellis Sacramento, California...
...Klein is right that "The U.S. has lost the war in Iraq." Behind this there lies a bigger truth. For the past 50 years, the enormous military force of the U.S. has been at its most effective when it hasn't been fighting - for instance as a deterrent threat that helped keep the peace during the cold war. With one exception, when it has gone into combat, it has sooner or later retreated in defeat and left behind a mess to be cleaned up later. This happened in Vietnam in the '70s, Lebanon in the '80s and Somalia...
...Klein's "What Daddy Couldn't Say" [Dec. 4]: There appears to be an elephant in the living room of the Bush household. When Daddy can't discuss Iraq with his son because the son is in denial and Daddy doesn't want the son to feel grief, that's grave dysfunction. The only solution is intervention, by the son's immediate family and our elected representatives. Please, Daddy Bush, have that talk with your son. MARIANNE ELLIS Sacramento, Calif...
...Nonetheless, some of the commission's more radical ideas are already being implemented in districts around the country. Commission member Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City school system, points out that New York already has a number of independent contractors running 322 of its schools and holds them accountable for performance. Philadelphia and other districts are doing the same. Teacher merit pay, despite opposition from unions, has already been introduced in many districts and states, though no one has yet created the kind of career paths envisioned by the commission, where salaries would begin...
...commission itself does not imagine that its ideas will be embraced with speedy enthusiasm. "This kind of change," said Tucker, "will take 15 years of hard work to implement." The point, says Klein, is not whether the commission got every detail right, but that the nation needs "a significant reconceptualization." After decades of flawed and piecemeal reform, it's hard to argue with that...