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...epidemic. I am frustrated by the plight of my fellow countrymen who are unable to get the aids drugs they are entitled to. John Lall New Delhi Referendums in the Dark Re Your article on the French and Dutch referendums on the European Union's constitution [May 30]: I wonder how many citizens would vote in favor of the constitution of their own country if they were asked to. Is it legitimate to ask people to vote on something the consequences of which they don't understand? Ilja Feldstein Lutry, Switzerland
...want the law intact and Gilbert free, so that society wins on both counts. What the case proves, however, is that society is helpless to do anything for Gilbert, for Emily or for itself. All we can do is recognize a real tragedy when we see one, and wonder, perhaps, if one bright morning 1934 Gilbert read of a mercy killing in the papers, leaned earnestly across the breakfast table and told his new bride: "I couldn't do that. I could never do that." --By Roger Rosenblatt
...designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows and a peaked roof. No wonder the private, $185,000 retreat outdoes any earthbound first-class dining hall. "Forty years ago, nobody envisioned things like jacuzzis and log stoves up in the trees," says John Harris, the firm's founder. "But today, nothing is impossible...
...have a deep respect for the men and women in the U.S. service. But I wonder if there shouldn't be a course at West Point that allows young cadets to question or challenge authority. Is it ever a mistake to go to war? There are philosophical differences between disloyalty and healthy inquiry. We need to examine all the options before we send our troops into harm's way. Jon Price Pottstown, Pennsylvania...
...comfort that that version was returned unharmed. On the other, nobody seems to have learned anything from the first theft. Museum security was still utterly insufficient, in part because gallery officials depended on the fantasy that no one would steal such a famous painting. And you wonder why that poor little guy is always screaming...