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...that it's unfair of the school to deprive healthy children of their favorite peanuty snacks. "Parents get very passionate and angry when their kids can't bring peanut butter to school," says Mike Tringale, director of external affairs at the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. "But you wouldn't throw razor blades all over the gymnasium. For these allergic kids, putting peanut butter in the cafeteria is the same thing...
...thought, This is smart. It's also tricky, because it's a triptych. How do you balance out three stories that seem to be disparate but are connected and have to come together in a vortex at the end? All points of view needed to be represented so we wouldn't be categorized as a lefty film. It's meant to provoke thought, not provide answers...
Thank you for the article "America's Other Army," about the private security companies operating in Iraq [Oct. 29]. If the architects of the Iraq invasion had used some common sense--like deploying more troops--we wouldn't need military contractors. And if the Iraqi people had backbone and stood up to terrorists, our troops could come home. It seems that American blood is cheap to them...
...Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from laying a wreath at ground zero because New Yorkers were revolted by "the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground" [Oct. 8]. I do not want to discuss how many tyrants the U.S. has tolerated vs. how many it has fought. But wouldn't it have been good diplomatic form to have allowed Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath in honor of all the 9/11 victims killed by Islamic fanatics? What kind of impact would his gesture have made on the dogmatic, anti-Western Muslims? Maybe New Yorkers should have waved the flag...
...Paul doesn't expect that he will win the nomination, and he has no interest in running as an independent again. But he also doesn't see himself endorsing one of the other Republicans in the general election. "Those people who support me wouldn't believe it," he says. "If I said, 'Giuliani's a great guy, and he'll reduce subsidies and bring the troops home'? I couldn't do that." Even nerd revolutions don't surrender...