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...good guy whose columns I have enjoyed on many occasions. Nevertheless, I find it amusing that Douthat, who has probably never been exposed to danger a single time in his life, sees fit to fault the Bush administration for its “zero casualty” logic in his column “Appeasing the Chinese” (Opinion, April 16). Apparently, George W. Bush is a coward for having the patience and humility to bring our boys back home safely with relatively little damage to Sino-American relations. Ross, on the other hand, is more than willing...
...this zero-casualty logic that forced us from the bleeding streets of Mogadishu, that compelled us to wage a virtual war from the sky over Milosevic’s Serbia without even admitting the possibility of sending in ground forces, and that has now created the bizarre situation with our Chinese “friends,” in which the most powerful nation on earth has made an apology to a government whose reckless pilot forced our aircraft from the skies and then held our crew as, well, hostages...
...much as we would like it to be otherwise, the chance of genuine dialogue, much less achieving a living wage through it, is zero. Students, faculty, workers, alums, parents and community members have no power in meetings, and administrators continue to agree to meetings because it allows them to perpetuate the appearance that they are listening to the rest of us. And the Harvard Corporation has so much confidence in their power that they don’t even pretend to listen; they have refused to meet with us for almost a year...
...audience, lovers of the classic comedy (the first film Brooks directed) about a schlocky Broadway producer who connives with his nervous accountant to raise money for an awful Nazi musical so they can abscond with the funds when the thing flops. Add the best-possible modern substitutes for stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder--Nathan Lane as producer Max Bialystock and Matthew Broderick as nebbishy Leo Bloom--and Broadway's hottest musical director, Susan Stroman (Contact, The Music Man). Support them with a gaggle of Broadway backers so eager that one producer had to hold a lottery to decide which...
...good news is that a stock's price can't fall below zero. So, fortunately, the most you can lose is everything." GARY W. JANSEN New Canaan, Conn...