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...Words Joe Klein referred to congressman Ron Paul's "singular moment of weirdness" as "proposing that al-Qaeda attacked on Sept. 11 because the U.S. had been messing around in the Middle East, bombing Iraq" [May 28]. I find it startling that Klein assumed the reader would see this perfectly reasonable notion as weird when it essentially echoes an observation made in The 9/11 Commission Report. I have to wonder where the weirdness really rests. Joshua Glassman, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA...
Flipping through the annual report of the Harvard College Fund (HCF), it is hard not to notice the number of photos of smiling undergraduates presumably made happy by the generosity of donors to the Fund. They leap out at any reader and are enough to make even a minor donor feel good about writing their check. In actuality, however, their donation to the Fund may never make its way back to undergraduate life—a deception that must be corrected...
...This is not the first time this kind of free-range lunacy has been visited upon me. Indeed, it happens, oh, once a week to each of us who post on Swampland (Karen Tumulty, Jay Carney and Ana Marie Cox are the others). A reasonable reader might ask, Why are the left-wing bloggers attacking you? Aren't you pretty tough on the Bush Administration? Didn't you write a few months ago that George W. Bush would be remembered as one of the worst Presidents in history? And why on earth does any of this matter...
...Wishful thinking gets the process going, but by the end it has no place. No 21st century reader needs reminding that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul’s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten...
...What else might Google offer? Possibly a Google Reader widget. The portal recently announced that its blog-reading tool can now be accessed offline. And though the iPhone could access Reader through its browser, a widget would be particularly useful when speedy mobile Web access isn't available. And why not a YouTube iPhone widget, now that YouTube is on Apple...