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...voters' minds are subject to change without notice. Even in Iowa and New Hampshire, where candidates take out residency papers, last-minute changes are commonplace. And national polls measure almost nothing worth thinking about. Most people haven't even begun to contemplate the campaign, and their choices are a thin gruel of name recognition and vague impression...
...Hitler we remember" [PERSON OF THE CENTURY, Dec. 31]. I took great offense at that statement. I say we forget Hitler at our own peril. He didn't carry out the Holocaust alone. He was aided by people in Germany, Poland, Hungary, France and other countries. Hitler showed how thin is the veneer of civilization. ANTHONY M. D'AGOSTINO Memphis, Tenn...
...like a personal vendetta wrote 13 similar hate-filled reviews and posted them on Amazon.com and two other large online book stores. Three Amazon employees over a four-week period treated me as if I had a legitimate concern, while the other online sites insinuated I was just a thin-skinned author who couldn't take any criticism. The Amazon people took the time to actually read the reviews, concluded they were bogus and quickly dropped them. Bezos' employees ought to share in this honor by TIME. MARK RENZ Lehigh Acres...
...Today, people are responding to Errol Morris' films more than ever, with "Mr. Death" already on several top ten lists and "The Thin Blue Line," "Vernon, Florida," and "Gates of Heaven" all being reissued by the Independent Film Channel. One way of looking at his success in creating great art without "selling out" is that he engages people by respecting them, by trusting their intelligence. He doesn't assume a superiority that would lead him to simplify his presentation, and in doing so, he engages audiences on levels unusual to many current films...
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest first premiered in 1894, but it remains refreshingly modern. A work of humor elevated to high art, the play is an illuminating critique confronting the thin line between the mainstream and the marginal, eccentricity and madness. Through comedy, Wilde wittily establishes the importance of identity, exploring how a particular name establishes legitimacy in the hearts of lovers and in the eyes of society. Despite its serious implications, this exploration is nothing if not entertaining. Remarkably, the new production of Wilde's masterpiece directed by Fred Hood '02 captures both the hilarity...