Word: roberts
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...there can never be peace, and reporting has a role to play. "Hardened terrorist," "insurgent," "captive," "subject": it's a revealing exercise to read the piece replacing these terms with the word person. A person is easier to talk to - and you're much less inclined to waterboard him. Robert Maslen, BRADFORD, ENGLAND...
...somewhat stunned to see the words "Latina Justice" screaming at me from the cover of your magazine. If you don't feel that this is racist, substitute the word white for Latina. Would you have used those words if Obama's choice was white? Robert Bogisich, Glen Iris, Australia...
...Stout Defense Thanks for Joe Klein's "Gates Unbound," on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [June 8]. Finally, someone who is putting the troops first. Jack Quartaroli, Sacramento, Calif...
...health-care dilemmas": The 800-pound gorilla in the room is medical-malpractice lawsuits. If those were brought under control, health-care costs would drop dramatically. Physicians would have no reason to practice "lawsuit prevention." But it won't happen. Most people in our government are lawyers. Robert K. Wismer, MILLERSVILLE...
...decayed noticeably in her middle years. Her fine features and figure, augmented by the subtlest surgery, allowed her to defy age and gravity. That was evident when she posed nude for a portfolio in the December 1995 Playboy, the magazine's best-selling issue of the '90s, and in Robert Altman's Dr. T & the Women (2000) she played a mad housewife who walks naked through a mall fountain. She kept making films, and for The Apostle, as the frazzled wife of preacher Robert Duvall, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award instead of a Golden Globe. That citation...