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...save her league. The all-time top scorer in international soccer joined 18 other U.S. female stars in taking a pay cut--in her case a 29% drop, to $60,000--to keep the Women's United Soccer Association alive. Bob Knight did it out of shame. The Texas Tech basketball coach gave back his $250,000 base salary to pay penance for his team's disappointing 16-11 regular-season record. Yes, folks, even the money-charged world of big-time sports is getting into the salary-cutting game...
After this great military victory, it is incomprehensible that the coalition could not provide a few more soldiers to protect the cultural heritage of the Iraqi people. We will have to live with this shame for many years to come. JOEL RICHMON Piedmont, Calif...
...Pretending Maxim was somehow less exploitative than Playboy was dangerous for the culture. If you're going to look at naked women, you should have to deal with all the shame and secrecy and power dynamics that make it so wonderful. If you want to buy a lad magazine, you should have to reach toward the back of the rack in an immigrant-owned deli, where the owner's sacred and repressed culture makes you feel even worse about your purchase. Because a country that tries to fool itself about these issues is a country doomed to create yet more...
Your article "A Faith-Based Initiative" noted that some Christian evangelical organizations are ready to go into Iraq to distribute aid along with a Christian message [COVER STORY, April 21]. Shame on Franklin Graham of Samaritan's Purse and the Southern Baptist Convention for supporting the troops in Iraq and then using their organizations' aid as a tool to convert Muslims. The Mennonite Central Committee, Church World Service and Catholic Relief Services have it right: Simply show compassion for all God's people by meeting their needs. Leave the rest to God, by whatever name. RICHARD H. ADAMS Hector...
...Alexander Ewing ’03 called the petition to take back Hornstine’s acceptance to Harvard “a shame,” adding that it is particularly objectionable because Hornstine’s older brother Adam J. Hornstine ’03 is a senior in Pforzheimer House...