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Senator Barack Obama has previously told us that words matter, and the venomous, vitriolic and racially divisive words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright are fraught with meaning of the most disturbing kind [March 31]. As your story observed, Obama failed to answer the central question that troubled American voters are asking: Why would Obama choose Wright to be his spiritual guide and personal mentor? And if Obama's candidacy is about the future, why would he expose his young daughters to such poisonous rhetoric of the past? Although he delivered his speech with his usual grace and eloquence...
Concerning Justin Fox's "triple-A trouble" [March 24]: Standard & Poor's ratings bring an independent voice and transparency to the market to help facilitate access to capital. We have rigorous policies in place to support the independence of our ratings--which are based on consistently applied criteria--and we recently announced additional measures. A triple-A rating represents our opinion that a security or issuer has extremely strong capacity to meet its financial commitments. While the valuation of many triple-A structured securities has fallen heavily, very few triple-A securities (less than 0.1% originally given that rating...
...Postcard: Lake Mead" told how that reservoir is shrinking while thirsty Las Vegas continues to grow [March 31]. It is the same in my state: developers build new homes, and new homeowners buy in water-short areas. Is this optimism or folly? David Abraham, ALBUQUERQUE...
...person who was your enemy into a mere political opponent. That's hardly the making of an alliance, but it does get adversaries talking--and that can keep them from shooting. When the technique works, even the most barbarous of characters may show a flicker of decency. On March 28 the government of Uganda signed a Sant'Egidio-negotiated peace treaty in which the warlord Joseph Kony agreed to come out of the bush and be tried before a jury in a regional court. Why would the likes of Kony be swayed by the likes of Riccardi? Riccardi himself...
Like a studio releasing once censored scenes from a classic horror movie, on April 1 the Pentagon declassified a key memo used to justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...