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Lately, Nike bashing has become a spectator sport. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau lambasted the company in his Doonesbury strip. Filmmaker Michael Moore featured Knight in his latest excoriation of corporate America, The Big One. Nike has been accused of bigfooting its way into soccer and despoiling academics by paying the University of North Carolina to wear its wares. A long-standing criticism is that it uses extravagantly paid endorsers to sell overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids. The company has been tarred by an image as a sweatshop operator that exploits Asian workers who make shoes and apparel for Nike subcontractors...
...Garry Trudeau intended to be humorous in his satiric look at the home life of Russian cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev and his wife [ESSAY, Sept. 1], but succeeded only in painting a very negative image of Tsibliyev as a bumbler. How easy it is for Trudeau to take the difficulties of the Mir space station and place them squarely on the shoulders of one person. Putting a space station thousands of miles above the earth is a great scientific achievement. Just because Tsibliyev is a Russian, he is ridiculed. Don't forget that Mir is the only manned space station...
Certain key shortcomings doomed the PDAs to failure. The handwriting recognition on these early models was atrocious, with Gary Trudeau lampooning in his "Doonesbury" strip the Newton's inability to recognize text. Secondly, devices like the Newton were too big and bulky to be of any use. Early PDAs were as big as a paperback novel and almost as heavy. They could be transported, but weren't truly portable in any sense of the word. They also required expensive add-ons to connect to desktop computers. At up to $1,000 a pop, these devices were no small investment...
...flippant piece by Trudeau is exactly why we have a growing teenage drug problem today. Many adults in his peer group show by their actions and words that they still view using marijuana as a harmless pursuit. Trudeau's attempt at satire is unforgivable when you consider how many young people's lives are permanently destroyed and damaged by drugs. DAVID A. WALKER JR. Cleveland, Ohio...
...discipline to perform in the face of adversity--is learned, a necessary developmental stage that is wired into each person. Once missed, it is hard, perhaps impossible to reclaim as are many childhood stages. Only look at a stoned 12-year-old; there are many to be seen. Featuring Trudeau's article is but another license to damage the young. ARTHUR C. HENRY Portland, Oregon...