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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...
...third installment of our series on corporate welfare [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 23], TIME reported the price of raw sugar as $22 a pound. It is 22[cents] a pound...
Thanks and congratulations on your corporate-welfare series [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 9 and 16]. Quite a number of legislators, economists and think tanks have been working for several years, trying to focus attention on this widespread, wasteful and escalating practice. It is having a serious negative impact on our distressed urban areas, as well as diverting resources from education, research and needed infrastructure repair and maintenance. In short, it is impairing the systemic efficiency of our country, and will put us at a disadvantage in global competition in terms of price and quality, unless, of course, our foreign competition emulates...
Thank you for the series on corporate welfare. Your report is frightening, infuriating and enlightening. But will anything change? Not while legislators are building up their retirement accounts. Pity those attempting to find tax dollars to improve the standards of education, among all those others being cheated because of these unfair practices. EVELYN EVANS Seattle
...judges; they are not necessarily unhappy that he has raised the issue. The problem with my solution, she says, is that it gives doctors no legal protection. For example, a nurse who disapproves of the decision of family and doctor to withhold care or to actively hasten death might report the case and have everyone up on malpractice--or murder--charges...