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...veteran, I believe that al-Qaeda operatives are not garden-variety prisoners who would respond to persuasion; they have proved to be hate-filled extremists who place no value on human life. I don't like torture either, but if it obtains information that puts a stop to future bloodshed - as it has, according to experts - then I say please resume. John Stern, GRAND HAVEN, MICH...
...What? Please stop quoting U.S. college graduates like Graham Boyd - whom I would have failed in primary school - who massacre English: "Searching a backpack is dramatically different than [from] asking a student to take their [his or her] clothes off" [Verbatim, May 4]. It's, like, embarrassing, man, when you use TIME to teach people English. Frank O'Meara, L'ISLE-ADAM, FRANCE
Fairview developmental center was Noah's last institutional stop. Built during the 1950s, Fairview is a complex of stucco bungalows spread over 100 acres (40 hectares) next to a golf course. Noah lived in Residence 14, one bungalow among about 50. In recent years, as the state has embraced a program known as Community Care, with the goal of moving developmentally disabled adults, including the severely autistic like Noah, from state facilities to local supported-living homes, these bungalows have been gradually shuttered. The money spent maintaining vast complexes like Fairview, the state believes, should instead be filtered through local...
Until I read Michael Moore's Piece on Bernie Madoff, I believed Moore was so misinformed and off the wall that if he said that gravity makes objects fall, I would stop believing in the laws of physics. I found myself agreeing with his every word. The managers and brokers who facilitated the greed should also be reviled. They all should have followed the example of another "most influential": truth-telling Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney. Ted Zaydel, WATERFORD, MICH...
...That would both stimulate the market for new cars and help curb our self-defeating addiction to buying oceans of oil from countries that wish us ill. It would be unpopular, of course, but many responsible things are. Revenues from such a gas tax might also help Obama stop being so, well, irresponsible about how to pay for his "new era of responsibility." (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...