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...write in response to an opinion piece entitled "Confederate Flags Must Vanish" (March 4, 1996) written by David W. Brown. As a Texan and a Southerner, I was offended by what seemed to be the latest installment in your series of opinion pieces degrading the South. I abstained from entering the recent argument over the issue of memorializing Confederate soldiers on the Harvard campus becaue I agree that it is not only Harvard's right, but obligation to preserve the memory of the students who gave their life to save the Union...
Even if Wigand were mysteriously to vanish tomorrow, however, antismoking advocates are convinced the deck is at last stacked in their favor. Through earlier litigation and the efforts of other whistle blowers, 30 years of internal documents have been exhumed that appear more damning than any single witness. They confirm, for instance, that, as one Philip Morris executive put it in the early 1970s, "smoke is beyond question the most optimized vehicle of nicotine and the cigarette the most optimized dispenser of smoke," and that as early as 1963 B&W executives knew nicotine was addictive. "Of course...
...lore too tragic to be true. A naive student from a small town overseas comes to the big city. Only hours after he steps off the plane, all his Ph.D. dissertation research is stolen after he leaves his briefcase and bike unattended for a few minutes. Years of research vanish; even his passport and diary disappear...
...became even whiter than native northern whites had ever been. There are also structural problems early in the book, such as a preponderance of evidence which obscures the broader arguments. Awkward syntax and glaring grammatical errors like transitive verbs left dangling without objects appear in the early chapters but vanish...
...Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside snowbank, soon to vanish under the snowfall still to come...