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...Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticized Mayawati for not running Uttar Pradesh properly. Yet on her birthday, both Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in China at the time, had made sure to call Mayawati to wish her well. After all, they might need her support in a matter of months...
...When Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviets and Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the world cried out in protest. Yet no country is prepared to demand that China leave Tibet. No matter what China does, the leaders of the democratic world stay quiet. Meanwhile, the innocent Tibetan people pay the price. The U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics over Afghanistan. Why is it not boycotting the Beijing Olympics over Tibet? Or is trade more important than the blood spilled in the nearly 50 years since the invasion? Vick Kandiah, Cairns, Queensland...
...Obama's Achilles' Heel 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...
...Wright's divisiveness. In failing to apologize for his bigotry, Wright enslaves his congregation to his hate. The fact that other African-American ministers have come forward to state that they have made similarly bigoted remarks suggests that there is much healing to be done. Racism is racism, no matter who practices it. David H. Herman, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania...
...Greenspan's belief in free markets blinded him to the dangers inherent in the subprime-mortgage market. How else can one explain his failure to respond to early and repeated warnings from the late Edward Gramlich, a member of the Fed board who recognized the dangers and addressed the matter (perhaps in frustration) last year in his book Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust? Kim Gardey, President, Gardey Financial Advisors, Saginaw, Michigan...