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...former commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and must point out that Eric Pooley's sharp criticism of the agency [BUSINESS, March 17] fails to acknowledge the real measure of success of the NRC and those it regulates: there has never been a commercial nuclear power plant accident in the U.S. in which radiation harmed the public, a commendable industrial record. The NRC, like all regulatory organizations, has weaknesses and at times overreacts to situations. Striving for improvement should be a continuing process and one for which NRC chairman Shirley Ann Jackson and her colleagues should have our encouragement...
...Eric Pooley. Reported by Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Jeff D. Pooley '98 said he attended the speech because he respected the intellectuals' work...
...Reinventing Hillary" [NATION, Dec. 2], Eric Pooley quotes Hillary Clinton as saying, "In our country we expect so much from the woman who is married to the President--but we don't really know what it is we expect." That is Hillary's problem. She doesn't know that Americans expect the First Lady to be a woman of integrity, a woman who makes the American people aware of problems that need fixing, but not a woman who is so arrogant that she will lie. We do not want a First Lady who tries to force her liberal ideas...
...Pooley wrote that Hillary Clinton alienated many Americans "because she seemed not to realize that the citizenry expects its powerful leaders, male and female, to show the humility befitting those whose authority is merely on loan." I have never heard that requirement of powerful men. Do we ask humility of Newt Gingrich? Teddy Kennedy? And why should she be humble? The Hillary Clinton I know (we were college classmates) is an amazing blend of intelligence, charm, ambition, energy and thoughtfulness. How sad that we have made her feel as if she should put a bag over her head and hide...