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...over the city. Virtually no food shipments have arrived since rebel forces first entered Monrovia in July, and hunger is taking lives every day. The starving look as if they are sleeping, curled up on the sidewalks, but their eyes are open; they simply lack the strength to stand. Sam, 8, who approached me with his brother John, 11, pleaded, "Missy, we haven't eaten in three days." I took them to the flat where I was staying and gave them each an orange and some rice. Their parents were missing, probably dead -- and there were thousands like them...
...prison at Guantánamo and warrantless eavesdropping on phone calls. It is a typical liberal attitude to criticize and second-guess the government's tactics in the war against terrorism. Thank God, the media do not dictate U.S. policy and the general public is smarter than you are. Sam Thomas New Hyde Park, New York, U.S. Security in the Global Market Columnist Joe Klein's "It's economic security, stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein...
...business lobby's comeback was due in no small part to three Republican Senators: Ohio's Mike DeWine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Sam Brownback of Kansas. At the Judiciary Committee mark-up yesterday that passed the pro-business bill, those three voted consistently for the Democratic pro-immigrant amendments Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy was pushing. More important, Graham agreed to co-sponsor, and introduce in committee, the entire pro-immigrant (and pro-business) bill Kennedy and Senator John McCain had crafted over the last year. The business lobby was not shy about taking credit...
...going to come for people who did not do anything," he says. "At some point businesses will be held accountable for the actions they take." Meanwhile, should Wal-Mart succeed at shrinking its environmental footprint and lowering prices for green products, both the planet and the company will profit. Sam Walton would have liked that. --By Daren Fonda. Reported by Steve Barnes/Bentonville, Rita Healy/Denver and Adam Pitluk/ McKinney...
...SAM THOMAS New Hyde Park...