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Spread the Word I was interested to read Vivienne Walt's article, "Cutting Off a Continent?" [July 13]. While I appreciate the philanthropy of the world's richest countries, I disagree with their style of giving. The problem is education. Why are the great nations in the West industrialized and we are not? Teach us how to mine our resources and how to design and construct facilities for the mining, and then Africa will catch up. That's the best way to aid us. Otherwise, it feels as though you are deliberately withholding the true source of development. Alexander Ezeh...
Islam in Bosnia Just as Europeans were being invited to vote in the E.U. elections, Vivienne Walt in her article "Islamic Revival" reminded us of the civil war that this same E.U. allowed to happen in the 1990s [June 15]. It is not surprising that Muslim opportunists took advantage of the situation by supporting the development of their faith. It is important that we Europeans remember and reflect on what happened in the Balkans during the war whenever we go to the polls. Alvin Panjeta, PARIS...
...tragic flaw was that Robert McNamara was someone who was incapable of imagining that he could be wrong. The mistakes in Vietnam were mistakes of arrogance and addiction to power," said Stephen M. Walt, a Kennedy School professor who added that he was "certainly no admirer of [McNamara...
...Despite his many failures, he always appeared to be 100 percent certain that his own ideas were always right," Walt said. "One would have thought that experience would have taught him a bit of humility, but if it ever came to him, it came very late. There was a tendency to constantly be prescribing advice, and it would have been easier to take if the track record had been more successful...
With its registration levels near normal, Camp Walt Whitman is one of the lucky ones. Across the country, camps have reported drops of 10% to 20% in enrollment. Parents are also opting to send their kids for shorter periods. (Read "The Meaning of Summer Camp...