Word: paragraphs
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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...
...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...
...fair to indict West and Gates for their new book on the basis that we are being misled? Perhaps. The most (startling?) interesting sentence of Early's review is one that comes in the last paragraph: "...Mr. Gates is far more honest than Mr. West is about the rank opportunism concealed in his (and all) bourgeois ambition." Regardless of who is more honest about it, the idea that "rank opportunism" features in the efforts of either West or Gates is a serious claim that could make us question why they are as prolific as they...
...read Erica S. Schacter's February 27 column about Pat Buchanan with some interest. Being well-aware of Mr. Buchanan's history of bigoted remarks, nothing really caught me by surprise until the final paragraph...