Word: questioned
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Furthermore, I question Upton's bizarre assertion that "in New York...the promise of integration has been fulfilled a bit better," evidenced, apparently, by the prominence of black artists in the playlists of mainstream stations. A quick glance at census statistics--African-Americans make up 26 percent of metropolitan New York's population, compared to 7 percent of greater Boston's (see govinfo.library.orst.edu)--indicates that New York stations are after market share, not racial harmony. MAX HIRSH...
...Kaustuv Sen's "In Defense of Business Careers" (Opinion, Dec. 1): Almost no one would refute that long-term economic growth eventually benefits almost all consumers, but I question the extent to which the positions Sen describes (consultants, entry-level managers, etc.) aid in this purpose. In a country where more than 80 percent of corporate stock is owned by 5 percent of the population, I wonder if balancing Merrill Lynch's checkbook has any direct affect on a poor family...
Your article on wrestler Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota [ELECTION REPORT, Nov. 16] made me question what goes through people's minds when they vote. Has politics become so corrupt that a man with hardly any position on political issues can run for office and stand a chance of winning? EILEEN KELLY Bethpage...
That is one of the questions that animates McEwan's eighth novel, Amsterdam (Doubleday; 193 pages; $21), the 1998 winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. The composer in question is Clive Linley. He and his old friend Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor, meet outside a London crematorium to say goodbye to Molly Lane, a glamorous and sexually generous woman dead in her late 40s of a painfully wasting disease. Each man had been her lover in earlier days, as had many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved...
...planned political violence is having an effect. Calls are growing for the government to invoke emergency powers. Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov has rejected such demands, but he is under pressure to do something. What he can achieve with a system that is riddled with corruption, however, is open to question...