Correspondence
to snicker at the Hindu forbearance accorded monkeys let us be mindful of the forebearance we accord our own, most notably those on Capitol Hill. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner was named...
...For the sake of historical accuracy I must share illumination concerning Wilson's early reading progress...
...Lazy...
...It was a big month for condoms...
...Barry Miller, Schmid's incomparable vice president of marketing, announced, "We cannot just bury our heads in the sand...
...While traveling to Detroit from New York, he was asked by a fellow passenger where he was from...
...I am disappointed to find that Heckscher has joined those who quote the litany of "dyslexia notables" (e.g., Wilson, as well as Thomas A. Edison, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, Jr., Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci), purported to have had academic problems while young and thus assumed to be dyslexic...
...No Miss Texas ever had a voice as grating or diction as tangled as George Bush...
...Janet Larson Assistant Library Director Sacramento Public Library Sacramento, California More Motown I was pleased to see William Irvine's article, "Forget the Motor City" (TAS, December 1991), though I wish he would have spent more time in the beloved city of Detroit to truly get a feel for Motown...
...On the contrary, we should be getting out the message that dyslexia is something that can be alleviated, but it takes a lot of hard work by appropriately trained persons...
...Nilson would attest...
...William (Willie) Kennedy Smith, the accused was acquitted on all charges, despite his shocking admission that on the night of his famous tryst he had carried no condoms...
...Anne Marshall Huston (Author of Common Sense About Dyslexia and Understanding Dyslexia) Professor of Education Lynchburg College Lynchburg, Virginia Teacher of the Year I offer two sincere hopes for the brave Nina Nilson ("The Class of '96," TAS, November 1991...
...When the boy read Cooper's novels, he wished afterwards to act them Department of Corrections Owing to an editing botch, two errors crept into Avigdor Haselkorn's "A New Balance of Terror" in last month's issue: The Joint Chiefs of Staff study mentioned on page 48 was done in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, not the Yom Kippur War...
...Haselkorn and our readers...
...Not only did it seem very self-serving and self-aggrandizing, but out of touch...
...and he was not content with Scott's romances until he had found someone . . . with whom he could discuss the characters and incidents...
...For starters, those who should know better have got to stop dodging the issue by chanting like a mantra such gibberish as "structural racism" and "oppressive power structure...
...Orthodox Christians in Russia have retained the faith expressed by Patriarch Tikhon, when he excommunicated the Bolsheviks: "We firmly believe that the enemies of the Church of Christ will be broken and scattered by the power of the Cross, for the promise of Him who bore the Cross is unalterable: I will build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew xvi, 18...
...Tulip was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Home to twenty years, with ten years suspended, making him eligible for parole in 1993...
...I'm assuming, of course, that she wasn't planning to resign anyway, for which I wouldn't blame her, being myself a former substitute teacher in the Pittsburgh junior and senior high schools...
...CORRESPONDENCE The American Spectator February 1992 9 out...
...As early biographer Ray Stannard Baker noted in Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters: Youth, 1856-1890 (1927), Wilson "was no casual reader but one of the eager and passionate kind who is not content until he tears out the very heart of a book...
...Even before the advent of glasnost and perestroika, some writers estimated that, after decades of Communist rule, church attendance in Russia was higher than in many countries of Western Europe...
...Joshua E. Tulip, has been sentenced for the shooting death of his mother and the wounding of his father...
...The former, for the most part, did not interfere with the life of the Church, but the Communists were in principle dedicated to an aggressive and militant atheism...
...For the most part, Christianity in the West has been fortunate to escape the sufferings that have been an almost constant element in the life of the Orthodox Church in the East...
...Commenting on Russia, Mr...
...If you voted for Dukakis, you'd be too poor to be worth robbing...
...Perhaps with today's tight fiscal restraints on libraries it would be more helpful to suggest that people donate library subscriptions to their public libraries...
...But the truth of the matter is that Wilson did not begin school until he was nine because the Civil War had closed many of the schools...
...The longer this kind of silly posturing goes on, the more good teachers like Ms...
...Rules of strict parliamentary procedure governed all debates of the club members...
...It is estimated that between 1918 and 1926 as many as a hundred bishops were executed by the Bolsheviks, as well as some 2,700 priests, 2,000 monks, and 3,400 nuns...
...when he read sea stories, he made pictures of the ships described...
...Jerry Lee Robertson and his wife were charged with murder and theft for allegedly beating their roommate to death with a clawhammer following an acrimonious game of Monopoly...
...As Ms...
...At the same time, there are many reasons why a child may have difficulties in school—other than dyslexia...
...2) by some miracle said co-workers and bosses simply miss seeing the November issue of TAS, which isn't wildly unlikely, since public school educators are about 95 percent liberal and probably have never even heard of the magazine...
...Ibid., page 103: "Now for revenues...
...with the reality of library funding these days...
...Eric, like any confident 17-year-old relishing an opportunity to defend America's most maligned city, responded "Detroit"—despite having lived in Manhattan since the age of four...
...How, in God's name, did we wind up with these two quibbledicks vying for helicopter rides on the South Lawn...
...Ion Enescu, a local pig farmer, was hospitalized for three days when his Christmas pig exploded during depiliation...
...We may recall the saying of Aeschylus, that wisdom comes from suffering...
...that: (1) she's in touch with a good résum?service, as it's a safe bet her colleagues and supervisors will do all within their power to see that she's severed from her job in view of her going public with such a devastating article...
...At least Johnson did not accept that—though he implies Wilson was lazy—but author Heckscher apparently does...
...RETA Fishing Expedition Parliament of Whores, by P.J...
...O'Rourke, page 5: "Sure, if we own an aerospace contracting company, a five-thousand-acre sugar-beet farm or a savings and loan with the president's son on the board of directors, we can soak Uncle Sucker for millions...
...It is correct to say that he did not learn to read until he was nine years old...
...For added protection a wetsuit can be worn...
...Charles Keating, Jr...
...In Virginia, a Loudoun County teenager, Mr...
...Besides, there was no telling what either of these ballot mice would actually do in office...
...but the Orthodox Church survived, and nourished the spiritual lives of the faithful...
...By the time he was ten he had written a constitution for a neighborhood club...
...faces up to 510 years in prison after being convicted on seventeen counts of securities fraud, presumably making him ineligible for parole until he is 180 years old...
...which is to say that Russia has been a Christian nation longer than the Roman Catholic Church has existed...
...The Mongols, however, were nothing compared to the Communists...
...Marlin, President Bush is going to confiscate your typewriter .. . —Ermin D. Narehood Manchester, Pennsylvania Woodrowkind I found Paul Johnson's review of August Heckscher's Woodrow Wilson (TAS, November 1991) interesting, thought-provoking, lengthy, and possibly misleading in one respect...
...In Sarasota, Florida, Schmid Laboratories unveiled the nation's first youth condom at a memorable press conference during which Mr...
...They (or their parents) may assume that since all those notable people had dyslexia and became famous for their accomplishments in spite of it, there is no need for remediation (since obviously those people had none...
...Actually, Dukakis wanted a Texan who was slightly more liberal, but George Bush was busy...
...Scott R. Stripling North Andover, Massachusetts A Shrinking World Economy You just know you're in a recession when Arab terrorists start laying off hostages...
...Kristol says, "I think Russia is going to become a very religious country...
...Judge Home acknowledged the obvious when he said to young Tulip: "You obviously have a great deal of love and devotion to your family...
...The two must not be equated...
...Hardly...
...Russia already is a very religious country, and has been for over one thousand years...
...Adam J. Levinson Ithaca, New York Holy Russia I very much enjoyed reading Tom Bethell's "A Chat With Irving Kristol" in your December issue...
...Christmas was observed all over the world: in the former Soviet Union, in all the former satellites of Eastern Europe, in Berkeley, California, at Harvard Yard, in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden, and in the Transylvanian town of Cluj, where Mr...
...At the Palm Beach rape trial of Mr...
...I am a real Republican (unlike some current presidents I could name), so I won't raise taxes...
...and he sets an admirable example of intellectual courage and honesty...
...Finally, after years of research, a British company has announced the world's first "female condom...
...Better than any other single anecdote that sums up the city of Detroit is the one my younger brother, Eric, often recounts...
...One remark he makes is worth a brief comment, not so much by way of criticism but clarification...
...In some cases, to be sure, Russian hierarchs capitulated to Communist propaganda, because of fear or torture...
...We apologize to Mr...
...Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner was named the new White House chief of staff by President Bush...
...Orthodox Christianity was established in Russia in 988 A.D., nearly a century before the Great Schism, when the Church of Rome separated itself from the rest of Christianity...
...Nilson will simply throw up their hands and walk away...
...This kind of ill-founded assumption is a serious disservice to those who have dyslexia...
...Bush and Dukakis told us exactly where they stood on only one issue—they were both in favor of getting elected...
...Wilson was neither...
...the Syrian missiles referred to on page 49 are surface-to-surface, not surface-to-air...
...Ibid., page 38: "First the jerk disappeared—the tall schmo with the voice up his nose, the one who was running for president but no one, could figure out why because he kept getting his tongue in a clove hitch and calling every whatchamajigger a "thing...
...Orthodox Christianity has sustained Russia through times of great persecution, beginning in 1237 A.D., with the invasion of Russia by the Mongol Tartars...
...More likely he was lazy and unmotivated...
...I'm sure, the "subs" often have it worse than the regulars, since even the most obtuse among the troublemakersknow that only the regular teachers can affect their grades...
...M. Ostlund, Jr...
...Ibid., page 28: "So Mike [Dukakis] went with the high-concept ticket-balancing choice of Lloyd Bentsen, who was two hundred fifty years old and a little to the right of Albert Speer...
...Some expatriate writers estimate that at least 12,000 priests have died at the hands of the Communists...
...Michael Brunka Toronto, Ontario 10 The American Spectator February 1992...
...Nilson describes is doomed to continue, until and unless those responsible for such schools face head-on that the crux of the problem is a growing cohort of youngsters, most of whom have never known a father and lack any sense of moral compass in their lives...
...In Washington, the Agency for International Development suspended distribution of 50 million condoms to Egypt after discovering that unscrupulous Egyptian birth control agencies were allowing the prophylactics to slip into the hands of balloon vendors...
...Taking into account the cost of incarcerating him and of maintaining his Social Security benefits, Washington insiders are predicting a reduced sentence...
...but occidental Christians, given the deep spiritual crisis in the West, could learn from the wisdom of Russian Orthodoxy...
...Reporting that Wilson "did not learn to read until he was nine," Johnson goes on to say that "Heckscher thinks he may have been dyslexic...
...On a wider level, I'm afraid the crisis Ms...
...Ibid., page 31: "If you, voted for Bush, you'd be robbed blind...
...State College, Pennsylvania Not My Department I saw your Library Watch ad in the December 1991 issue of TAS...
...Mr...
...The American Spectator (December 1991), page 13: One of Marlin Fitzwater's recommended "Books for Christmas" is Parliament of Whores—"because it's fun and it's all true...
...Kristol's opinions are almost always instructive...
...You'll remember that until the beginning of January 1989 George Bushwas a skinny, inconsequential doofus, an intellectual smurf and moral no-show who wound up in the White House by default...
...The other passenger in return disarmingly queried?Why...
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