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...LACK OF A "monstrous cause" for such a "monstrous effect" as the slaughter of innocents in Dunblane, Lance Morrow [ESSAY, March 25] noted that "only the vocabulary of evil" could explain what happened there. But as long as social commentators feel they can justifiably use the term nonentity to refer to any human being, society will continue to be plagued by eruptions of violence like the one at Dunblane. BRUCE A. FRENCH Guilford, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...Volga where Vladimir Lenin, ne Ulyanov, was born in 1870. It contains a varied assortment of Lenin shrines, from his parents' apartments to his classroom to a modernistic museum complex on a bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region's Communist Party. He continues to operate in the peremptory style of a party boss from his colonnaded, four...
...what's that they say about learning a little economics being more dangerous than knowing none? I refer to "Reassessing America's Free Trade Policies" (March 13) by Bradley Whitman. With such a delightful list of dressed-up economic half-truths, one would surely be remiss not to take a bite! Or maybe, just...
...Oscar night." Jackson called on participants in the show to wear a rainbow ribbon to show their support. Co-producer Quincy Jones, who is black, wore a ribbon, but host Whoopi Goldberg did not. Attinger reports that red AIDS ribbons were far more prevalent. Goldberg, however, did refer to Jackson in her monologue: "I had something I wanted to say to Jesse Jackson, but he's not watching, so forget...
...Oscar night." Jackson called on participants in the show to wear a rainbow ribbon to show their support. Co-producer Quincy Jones, who is black, wore a ribbon, but host Whoopi Goldberg did not. Attinger reports that red AIDS ribbons were far more prevalent. Goldberg, however, did refer to Jackson in her monologue: "I had something I wanted to say to Jesse Jackson, but he's not watching, so forget...