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...task of fostering a learning environment. Where are the mandatory art programs and after school tutoring programs? Leaving this task up to the state alone without a mandate is a mistake. Under-funded states facing great difficulty in trying to meet the testing standards without adequate resources will completely overlook this issue...
Kasparov asked us to overlook Bobby Fischer's flaws (like his anti-Semitism, which Kasparov didn't mention), and Tyrangiel wants us to keep buying Winehouse's albums - perhaps so that she can keep herself supplied with drugs? There should be a group called Enablers Anonymous for Kasparov and Tyrangiel to join. I may not help madmen by refusing to patronize them, but at least I don't have to feel like a patsy. Leslie Gerber, SAUGERTIES...
...Kasparov asked us to overlook Bobby Fischer's flaws (like his anti-Semitism, which Kasparov didn't mention), and Tyrangiel wants us to keep buying Winehouse's albums - perhaps so that she can keep herself supplied with drugs? There should be a group called Enablers Anonymous for Kasparov and Tyrangiel to join. I may not help madmen by refusing to patronize them, but at least I don't have to feel like a patsy. Leslie Gerber, Saugerties, New York...
...Tale of Two Romneys": It sounds as if Mitt Romney has us all confused as to who the real Mitt is [Jan. 14]. I only hope it's bad advice from incompetent advisers and not the man himself. As a Democrat-leaning independent, I was willing to overlook Romney's Republican ways because of what he accomplished in private business, with the Utah Olympics and as governor of Massachusetts. An awareness of his father's untarnished reputation while governor in my home state also didn't hurt. But his seesawing pegs him as a politician desperate...
...Modern readers will also be obliged to overlook De Monfreid's unabashed racism and brusque, culturally superior attitude, which were both products of their time. On a ship from Marseilles to Greece, for example, De Monfreid scowls at a throng of Russian peasants, whom he finds "as uncouth and primitive as the Somali Bedouins." And the book is further marred by the same sort of excessive nautical argot (starboard this, lateen that) that makes Moby Dick such a tough sea of words to oar through. But whenever De Monfreid reaches land and begins to describe the gallery of rogues...