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Robert E. Grady's article, with suggestions on how to revise the Kyoto Protocol to make it acceptable and effective [VIEWPOINT, June 25], was right on the mark. An incentive-based long-term system involving all countries is definitely the way to go to reduce global emissions. Costs can be equalized based on global market levels. Each country's individual expenses can be measured as a percentage of its GDP and a value for credits calculated. Richer countries will obviously pay more of the total, but all countries will share in some part of the cost of what essentially affects...
...want a Fed chairman with a kind eye for what W. put in place. Someone who sees the world like a true Republican. Someone with experience on the Fed and in a White House, able to see monetary policy from both the central bank's and the president's viewpoint...
Margaret Carlson's commentary on the Bush twins' underage drinking and their need for privacy is exactly what the American people need to hear [VIEWPOINT, June 11]. Have we, as a society, become so jaded that we will sit in judgment of the 19-year-old twins for something many of us have done ourselves? These girls are normal teenage college students. They aren't President of the U.S.; they didn't choose to dedicate themselves to a life of politics and public scrutiny. The members of the press waiting for the girls to step out of line ought...
...reappraisal of the generation that fought in World War II, Richard Schickel wrote that the war was considered "a good war" only when we learned about the Nazi genocide [VIEWPOINT, June 4]. This is revisionism at best. The war was considered the ultimate battle of freedom vs. tyranny because the Nazis had taken over most of Europe and, with the aid of their Japanese allies, were set on nothing short of total world domination. Every American, in or out of the service, was keenly aware of this. To say the U.S. fighting forces were exhibiting only "mindless personal courage" because...
...Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the court?s opinion, "When Milford denied the Good News Club access to the school?s limited public forum on the ground that the club was religious in nature, it discriminated against the club because of its religious viewpoint in violation of the free-speech clause in the First Amendment...