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Gautum Mukunda's flawed analysis of the historian's craft misinterprets both a student's moral burdens and what it means to be an American (Opinion, Sept. 28). In the first place, the study of history is not a quest for moralistic lessons that great people can later draw on as inspiration for their own feats. It is the quest for the truth of what happened in the past. Great people tend to draw their own lessons. Mukunda's jingoistic interpretation of the American ideal obscures this quest for truth and limits it to the American sphere of intellectual tradition...
While every newspaper and journal fawns over Diana and the House of Windsor [WORLD, Sept. 7], it may be wise to remember that many British subjects do not care for the monarchy. I would be overjoyed if the ridiculous practice of primogeniture were to cease with our current monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. I also would be grateful to hear from people who support this system. Perhaps they believe in the inherited status of doctor, lawyer or journalist. More than 200 years ago, patriot Thomas Paine, born an Englishman, advised the people of America of our flawed system of government. MARK...
...outraged after reading your account of David Cash's despicable behavior following his discovery that his friend Jeremy Strohmeyer had molested and murdered a seven-year-old girl in a rest-room stall in a casino at the California-Nevada border [LAW, Sept. 7]. Granted, Cash is not legally responsible, according to current Nevada and California law, because he kept the knowledge of the occurrence to himself. But why can't he be held accountable for entering a women's rest room and peering over a toilet stall? Does this mean that any male can walk into a women...
...quietly helpful, you might have thought that last weekend's bank-rescue agreement between Prime Minister KEIZO OBUCHI and the opposition would immediately encourage better relations with Washington. Wrong. Ever since an unproductive meeting between Treasury Secretary ROBERT RUBIN and Japanese Finance Minister KIICHI MIYAZAWA in San Francisco on Sept. 5, Miyazawa's office has dodged attempts to set further discussions with U.S. officials. And last Friday, on the eve of Obuchi's summit with BILL CLINTON, his chief Cabinet secretary abruptly canceled a meeting with U.S. Ambassador THOMAS FOLEY in Tokyo. The cancellation may have been partly in response...
...distress call described one of an aviator's worst fears: "We have smoke in the cockpit." Eleven minutes later, his radio fell silent, and six minutes after that, Swissair Flight 111 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people onboard. While the cause of that Sept. 2 crash has not yet been determined, investigators have discovered indications of a fire in an electronics compartment below the cockpit, and the presence of smoke made the crash seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades in 1996. As a result, the Swissair disaster...