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...appreciate your effort to paint a fair picture of Christian missionary activities in the Muslim world [RELIGION, June 30]. Christian groups have been at the forefront of providing humanitarian aid and health care to poor Muslims. Those who object to the missionaries ought to ask the Muslims who have been aided, spiritually or otherwise, to comment on the effect Christian missionaries have had on their lives. Freedom of religion does not exist in many nations within the Muslim world. Something is truly amiss when the U.S. is accused of religious imperialism while other countries export tyrannical Islam. JUSTIN M. STEVENS...
...years of age and considered a good driver by all, but I would not object one bit if the motor vehicle department required a yearly driving test. I would be upset if I had to stop driving, but that would be preferable to hurting myself or someone else. I have to add that elders are not the only ones who should be tested often! There are many young people and middle-aged drivers who are a peril to those on the road. Jeannette Kearns Hackensack...
...depend on whether he can help shift the U.S. toward a more respectful, accommodating attitude to the rest of the world. While he will be speaking for many countries beside his own, for Blair to preach internationalism in Bush's Washington is an experiment in irresistible force meeting immovable object - with the fate of Messrs. Begg and Abbasi an early test case...
...object of his brisk movement was over the moon. "I did it," screamed a woman stamping her feet. "I did it." Her friends crowded around her. "Don't wash that hand ever," said one." Another chimed in: "Don't wash it until his term is over...
Accessible from Market and Chestnut streets is Franklin Court, site of Franklin's home. Completed in 1766, the house was an object of great pride for Franklin, particularly the third-floor music room. Franklin chose this site for its strategic and symbolic value; determined to honor his leather-apron roots, he built the courtyard on a spot that lay squarely between posh and working-class neighborhoods. After he died, Franklin's grandchildren razed the place, thinking the property was worth more than the home. In 1976 architect Robert Venturi's ghost structure--a beam outline (to scale) of the home...