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...behind locked gates and hire guards to protect their family from kidnapping." Is Kinsley suggesting that to ensure their own safety the better-off should, via the government, pay protection money to the less well off? This would be playing with public money a similar game to the one rich people in banana republics play with their personal money. Mark A. Mendlovitz, Los Angeles...
...trying to meet and influence politicians makes gay political donors a mafia, what do we call the endless parade of oil executives, Wall Street bankers and other rich, white, straight men and women who do the same? The struggle for civil rights may have progressed from the streets to the statehouse, but it is clear that TIME's coverage hasn't kept up. Eric Peterson, ORONO, MAINE...
There is a rich history of mischief and malice in the interregnum, particularly during the last transfer of power to take place in the middle of a fiscal firestorm. In 1932 it didn't help that the two men neither liked nor trusted each other: Herbert Hoover called Franklin Roosevelt a "chameleon on plaid," while F.D.R. preferred the image of Hoover as a "fat, timid capon." Since Inauguration Day was not until March 1933, there was an urgent need for action, but Hoover's efforts to reach out to Roosevelt in the name of bipartisan cooperation were dismissed by critics...
...There are more rich ways of dealing with the moment,” Saha said. —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...story begins where “Casino Royale” left off—a welcome first for a Bond movie—Forster washes his film of that movie’s operatic pretensions, and consequently “Quantum of Solace” feels less satisfyingly rich, less deeply felt. But gone forever is the Bond who orders beluga caviar and Dom Perignon on MI6’s dime only to wrap his legs around unsuspecting damsels. He isn’t quite the killer he wants to be, nor is he the saintly avenger we expect...