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...Shoe Is Thrown in Baghdad I couldn't disagree more with what Bobby Ghosh wrote in "The Moment 12/14/08: Baghdad" [Dec. 29]. While I have been unhappy with most of President Bush's decisions, respect for the presidency should count for something. To me, Ghosh clearly disregards that with his less-than-objective rendition of objects being hurled at a U.S. (or any country's) President. What happened to that "journalists' code of objectivity" Ghosh writes about? Jeff Seyler, Wilbraham, Mass...
...couldn't disagree more with what Bobby Ghosh wrote in "The Moment 12/14/08: Baghdad" [Dec. 29]. While I have been unhappy with most of President Bush's decisions, respect for the presidency should count for something. To me, Ghosh clearly disregards that with his less-than-objective rendition of objects being hurled at a U.S. (or any country's) President. What happened to that "journalists' code of objectivity" Ghosh writes about? Jeff Seyler, WILBRAHAM, MASS...
...every story of swindlers and cheats, dwell for a moment on these: Someone placed an 18-karat-gold diamond ring in the Salvation Army kettle in Uniontown, Pa. A Sioux Falls, S.D., hotel manager came up with a plan to open his doors to 200 homeless people for Christmas. A Santa Clarita, Calif., family took in an 83-year-old woman left homeless by wildfires and helped rebuild her life. Food donations in Paradise, Calif., were up fivefold. "We'll take a cup of kindness yet," we sing as we welcome a new year, and never more so than this...
...possible we've reached a moment of creative commiseration. A friend in Iowa was invited to a poverty party--"because why should a worldwide recession spoil all our fun!" the invitation said. Guests were told to bring "a dish to share, a (cheap) bottle of wine, a hard-luck story and a devil-may-care attitude." We share casserole experiments: food itself becomes communal, everything in the fridge pitching in. You learn a lot about your neighbors when you carpool, and save...
Still, the rise in borderline diagnoses may illustrate something about our particular historical moment. Culturally speaking, every age has its signature crack-up illness. In the 1950s, an era of postwar trauma, nuclear fear and the self-medicating three-martini lunch, it was anxiety. (In 1956, 1 in 50 Americans was regularly taking mood-numbing tranquilizers like Miltown - a chemical blunderbuss compared with today's sleep aids and antianxiety meds.) During the '60s and '70s, an age of suspicion and Watergate, schizophrenics of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sort captured the imagination - mental patients as paranoid heroes...