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...dream of bringing culture closer to our readers. Hamilton Castro Rio de Janeiro Judging the Nominee Re your report on supreme court nominee John Roberts [Aug. 1]: As a Roman Catholic like Roberts, I want to say that being Catholic does not necessarily make a person a right-wing religious fanatic or a pawn of the Pope. Catholics are thinking individuals. I am not a Republican, but I would not mind seeing Roberts as a Justice. Any chance Bush might resign and John Roberts become President? Nils J. Mikkelsen Plano, Texas, U.S. Atomic Anxiety Re your report on the anniversaryof...
...Your story about the atom bomb brought back memories. I was on the island of Tinian at that time, in the 4th Marine Air Wing, and often watched those big B-29s take off. When the Enola Gay I returned, it just about blew our tents down, since it came in so low in celebration of what the crew suspected it had done: end the war. Later we flew our C-46 transport plane to Omura, Japan. As we looked down at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it seemed as if somebody had taken a rake and cleared those cities...
...focusing on the CDU's plans for tax and health-care reform, which it says will benefit more affluent Germans and disadvantage poorer ones. "We have to make it clear to voters how unjust the CDU's program is," says Andrea Nahles, a leader of the SPD left wing...
...Even if a lot of undecideds start leaning his way, Schr?der still has to contend with left-wing dissidents in the SPD. Their opposition to his economic reforms crippled his government, leading him to gamble on early elections in the first place. Germany's new left-wing alliance, the Linksb?ndnis, is exploiting unhappiness with reform to siphon off crucial support from the SPD. In response, Schr?der announced an increase in benefits for the long-term unemployed in eastern Germany and has agreed to a wealth tax on people earning over ?250,000 a year...
...Leonard Leo, who advised the White House on picking Roberts, sent a memo to colleagues noting that the same kind of stories about Roberts sailing through were written more than a decade earlier about Clarence Thomas. "There is far, far too much at stake," they wrote, "for our left wing friends to sit on the sidelines." In that light, the precedent that really matters most may be the one established by Roberts' experience in the weeks ahead...