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...Henry Kissinger even wiretapped his own aides. But the "all fruit" assumption doesn't take into account the strict constraints placed on the intelligence community after the Nixon debacle, or the lethally elusive nature of the current terrorist threat. The liberal reaction is also an understandable consequence of the Bush Administration's tendency to play fast and loose on issues of war and peace-rushing to war after overhyping the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear-weapons program, appearing to tolerate torture, keeping secret prisons in foreign countries and denying prisoners basic rights. At the very least, the Administration should...
...America," Nov. 21]. While taking potshots at the Governor, you failed to mention his many accomplishments in education. Thanks to his planning, the state is spending $2 million a day to ensure that all students have a safe and modern learning environment. He has championed the development of strict new academic standards and demanded accountability in the schools. Governor Taft is a friend and a national leader in education. I encourage TIME to take a broader look before printing such unfair attacks in the future. JAMES B. HUNT JR. FORMER GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh...
Sure, Orman has the usual battery of electronic devices--in fact, she runs a paperless office but has strict rules for using her gadgets. "When I am writing, I don't answer phones. I don't care what else is going on," she says. She has a cell phone but never leaves it on. "You can't call me. I only call you. I think you have to stop thinking you are at everyone else's beck and call." Silence, she adds, is critical. "You cannot complete your thoughts with everything ringing...
...there’s one thing that we know about Bush and his fellow arch-conservatives, it’s that they only cry strict construction when it serves their purposes; still, pointing this out and “beating them at their own game” misses the larger and more salient point. Whether Bush’s expansion of powers—his reinterpretation of conventions regarding torture, the executive directive in question, among others—is technically legal or constitutional is secondary to whether it is right and in accordance with the American ideals, the American...
...Only now do New Orleans residents seem to understand the foolishness of destroying the wetlands that once protected them and the need for strict building codes that would have lessened the effects of a disaster. I am truly sorry for the misfortune that has befallen New Orleans. But I just do not feel personally obligated to pay for it. Craig M. Miller Lakewood, Ohio...