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Thank you, Roger Rosenblatt, for writing about your reactions to your mother's death from Alzheimer's [ESSAY, April 30]. My mother also died of this disease two months ago. You have eloquently expressed many of my own feelings at watching my mother slowly slip away. As I walk to work past the flowering trees, enjoying the fresh smell of spring that she loved so much, I miss her. But I had been missing her for some years now. Take a breath of spring, Mr. Rosenblatt. I am, and I think our mothers are too. FELICIA ZETLER Pittsburgh...
With all due respect to Rosenblatt and his loss, how dare he perpetuate the myth that when a person has Alzheimer's disease, "it takes away everything"? My mother also died of Alzheimer's, and what is amazing about the disease is not what is lost but what remains. The fact is, even when so much of the brain is damaged, people can still respond to human touch, to the voices of those they love, to music, humor and kindness. Yes, Alzheimer's is a terrible disease, but astoundingly, love and joy and beauty do endure in its midst. KATHY...
...Roger Rosenblatt's piece on Bill Clinton, drawing a comparison between the former President and the "exciting, tragic" neighborhood of Harlem [ESSAY, March 5], captured the essence of the extraordinary personality that has kept us in a state of astonishment and bewilderment for eight years. Each day's headlines had us outraged or applauding. With each speech, Clinton won us over, but then lost us in a cloud of dust as the next unsavory episode unfolded. We never had a chance to go into restful, neutral gear. Maybe we never will. NANCY BAKER Columbus, Ohio...
...appalled by the insensitivity Roger Rosenblatt showed in his commentary about the human need to write based on the revelation of the Russian submariner's last message to his wife [ESSAY, Nov. 6]. The situation aboard the Kursk should not be trivialized by relating it to existential musings on the subject of why people write. Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov wrote to tell a truth we all suspected: the crew of the Kursk did not die instantly, as Russian authorities claimed. How could Rosenblatt fail to have addressed the issue that Russia does not value life any more today than...
...package: a photo album of private scenes from this campaign, a reconstruction of its key moments, a forum of fascinating folks (ranging from Jesse Ventura to Doris Kearns Goodwin to Garry Trudeau) assessing what we'll someday make of President Clinton, plus analysis from Margaret Carlson, Lance Morrow, Roger Rosenblatt and Charles Krauthammer, and some humor from Christopher Buckley and Joel Stein. Pulling it all together were our national-affairs team led by Steve Koepp, Priscilla Painton, Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs and Ratu Kamlani...