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...more lethal weapons next time. Abdullah knows that truth. But he would never say it. It's more convenient - and much safer - for him to blame Israel. Stephen Listfield Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Ford's Uphill Road Re "Ford: just fix the car" [Sept. 18]: As a former Ford Maverick owner who remembers the gas shortages of the 1970s, I was appalled when the first suvs rolled off the line. I was even more appalled when people started buying them. How could Ford have such a short memory and be so shortsighted at the same time? What is so hard about...
...Ford Just Fixed the Car" [SEPT. 18]: as a former Ford Maverick owner who remembers the gas shortages of the 1970s, I was appalled when the first SUVs rolled off the line. I was even more appalled when people started buying them. How could Ford have such a short memory and be so shortsighted at the same time? What is so hard about producing a fuel-efficient car with sleek lines that will go more than 100,000 miles without falling apart? What is so difficult about offering a 100,000-mile guarantee and 1-800 roadside assistance? Greed captured...
...Observers far from Salt Lake City may have been taken aback by Anderson's boldness - or rudeness, depending on their view - but no one in the city was particularly surprised by this maverick politician's latest move...
...There is much Washington could learn from studying Theodore Roosevelt. Paying little regard to either the Republican or Democratic bosses, he was a natural maverick who did what he thought was right. A passionate believer in technology, TR, in 1902, became the first President to ride in an automobile - something for which at the time, he was praised by the newspapers as an act of courage and foresight...
...left-leaning loyalties were hard to sustain through the malaise of the late seventies. In the 1980 election, during my year as Crimson editorial chairman, in a final gasp of last-ditch leftism, we endorsed the maverick candidacy of Barry Commoner. Having criticized what we saw as the Carter administration’s dangerous and ineffective turn to the right in the aftermath of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we thought that endorsing the Democrat would be hypocritical. For our purity, we got eight years of Ronald Reagan...