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...journalist, I admired the scope and detail of the piece and the skillful way Chris' accident, therapy and campaign for spinal-cord research were interwoven with the personal aspects of his life and thoughts. You captured the paradox in his driving perfectionism and his unsure self-criticism. The opening paragraph was especially masterly in its description of Chris in his chair, inert and immobile but all forward motion in his eyes and his thinking. Similarly, the last image of him, on the tilt table, standing tall, was so apt and telling of his strong desire to walk again. BARBARA...
Stengel wrote, "many associations--gated suburbs and business-improvement districts, known as BIDS (which have their own police forces)--are driven in some respects by self-concerned fear." Then he goes on to include the Viper militia in the same paragraph! As former chairman of New York City's Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, I spent 10 years retrieving that seven-acre park from drug dealers. Today it gives pleasure to thousands who previously avoided it. Without a bid this would not have been possible. The major BIDS in the New York area have vastly improved the quality of life here...
Sister Doris Gormley is director of corporate social responsibility for the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. This spring, after receiving a proxy statement from a large Silicon Valley corporation called Cypress Semiconductor, she sent back a courteous, three-paragraph form letter explaining her order's belief that corporations should include qualified women and minorities on their boards. In return, she received a six-page lecture from Cypress CEO T.J. Rodgers, who said, among other things, that views such as hers were "immoral." So much for my assumption that every little American boy is raised to be particularly polite...
...desolation of Kabul is tragic, but the last paragraph of your article, in which people blame the U.S. for what has happened there, is infuriating. If Afghans believe that the U.S. is responsible for their misery because we supplied them with weapons, do they also believe that we supplied them with the suicidal stupidity to turn those weapons on one another? We can sometimes protect populations from the aggression of invaders, but we can't protect populations from their own ridiculous brutality. KAREN S. COYLE Deland, Florida...
Take, for example, the cover of Time dated May 20, 1996. A barreling tornado attacks Hodges, Tex, covered by the headline, "On the Trail of Twisters." The inside story reveals a bit more in the second paragraph: "No, this is not one of those scary scenes from the movie 'Twister,' which opened in theaters across the country last week." Hmmm, sounds like this is a major movie, and it's out just in time for the beginning of the summer season. Maybe I should go to the box office and pay my $7 to see it. After...