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Except for a one-paragraph blurb that is supposed to describe Ralph Nader's platform, you have virtually ignored or dismissed Nader's candidacy. But I've seen surveys showing Nader with more support than Ross Perot, who has truly become the joke of this campaign. How about some real reporting on Nader's quixotic attack on the two-party system? Save the coverage of Perot's ramblings for the one-paragraph "amusing" blurbs. MIKE MYERS La Jolla, California Via E-mail...
...racial or ethnic characteristics. If a house's members can exclude someone because they dislike his manner, why can't they also exclude him because they dislike his religion or skin color? The answer to this is the logical converse to the point I made in the previous paragraph. While it is moral for an organization to exclude based on characteristics that affect its mission, it is immoral to exclude based on characteristics that are irrelevant. Hence Harvard's non-discrimination code; it would be wrong for the University, whose goal is to train scholars and citizens, to reject...
...years of childless marriage, for example, Thelma's mother-in-law becomes concerned and takes action, asking "the old man to come." After that summoning, there is a break in the text, as if an earth-shattering meeting, or story-changing event is about to take place. The next paragraph contains a description of the old man as a "cloud of gray," even elaborating on the kind of cloth his clothes are made of. The reader is set up to believe the old man will have an impact on the history of these women when in fact he is gone...
They also passed out a two paragraph statement promoting peaceful negotiations and condemning last week's "violent Palestinian response" to the opening of an ancient tunnel near Muslim and Jewish holy sites...
Then a Sony public affairs man handed him an article from Fortune magazine. There Canton read in the first paragraph that his boss, Sony Pictures Entertainment president Alan Levine, was going to can him. The news shouldn't have startled anyone, but no one from Sony had bothered to tell Canton. The week dragged on, and no word came. On Thursday night Canton and Levine both uncomfortably attended Hollywood's splashy Clinton fund raiser. The next day Levine finally pulled the trigger...