Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Kara Hultgreen's Times As a reporter for an independent weekly newspaper that closely follows the Navy, I was so disappointed to find a glaring inaccuracy in John Cony's article...
...Justice O'Connor, in particular, seems wedded to a personalistic jurisprudence that disdains clear logic and sways with the feeling of the moment...
...Those who condemn the banner and title speak from the eye of the beholder and not from historical understanding...
...The EEOC decreed, "An individual's need for an accommodation cannot enter into the employer's or other covered entity's decisions regarding hiring, discharge, promotion, or other similar employment decisions, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer...
...Jeremy Rabkin replies: Toni House suggests that "many aspects" of my article require correction, but then protests only one sentence in the article...
...Many in the West rallied to his side, signing letters and petitions, and speaking out in behalf of this brave man whose only "crime" was speaking the truth about criminal behavior by a state that no longer exists...
...The Washington Post editors reported in 1992, after Yeltsin's revelations that the anthrax epidemic had been caused by an accident at a biological warfare facility, that "hundreds were killed," as did many of the other accounts I read...
...vast numbers of people with moderate disabilities have successfully found work and are earning their pay without the help of threats from EEOC bureaucrats...
...I explained that the hearing impaired were important viewers to us, which is why all of our current shows are in fact closed-captioned...
...To the contrary, Navy Times received a copy of the MIR and reported its conclusions quickly and responsibly...
...The Meselson Mess In his article "The New Cold War Revisionism" (TAS, June 1995), Michael Ledeen uses the 1979 Sverdlovsk epidemic to argue that the New York Times is "falsifying the historical record...
...I refer to the brilliant pastiche in the form of responses to Joe Queenan's "The Week of Smoking Dangerously" in the June issue...
...AALP wrote again to Chief Justice Rehnquist, pointing out that in its own invitation letter, West had characterized the three-day conference as "a forum for editors from bar associations and private publishing ventures across the country to discuss issues surrounding their publications and the legal publishing business as a whole...
...2) Bovard mistakenly thinks the ADA is about "those who cannot help themselves...
...Bovard only scratches the surface by not reporting on the threatened law suits that haven't made it to court, but nonetheless may have an incredible chilling effect on businesses...
...However, I think it unlikely that many supporters of capital punishment share van den Haag's acceptance of the random process of selecting who dies...
...I have no more desire to be propagandized by the right than by the left...
...Now, thanks to John Engler, Michigan is doing just fine...
...To this day, most circuits require that briefs supply citations to past cases in the copyrighted version published by West...
...The right engine assumed full thrust, pulling the right wing forward and causing the aircraft to yaw and roll to the left...
...Yet that fact, and millions of other similar facts, were commonplace for anyone who knew anything about the Soviet Union...
...One could not have asked for more graphic documentation of how totally Meselson's team was—and remains—under the sway of Soviet disinformation...
...Is the Circulation Department aware of this...
...Ted Bundy's case was expedited through the courts as fast as possible at every state, yet it took ten years from his conviction to execute the man...
...The ADA is a positive societal good...
...House says, the Chief Justice was out of town at the time...
...And if a Navy Times story noted the similarities between the MIR and the public "JAGMAN" report, I don't think Ms...
...O'Rourke (TAS, May 1995...
...To my astonishment, rather than agreeing with me on the silliness of the passage, the caller said he would investigate possible legal action against those cable broadcasters as well...
...Like President Clinton, she seems to prefer mixing political calculation with labored assurances that she "feels your pain...
...Ledeen should realize is that Matthew Meselson and the other researchers worked long and hard to drag the facts of this tragedy out of the realm of political rhetoric to a secure factual base, presumably what he himself would want...
...6) Bovard offers as an option for people with disabilities a system of bribes...
...Not even the KGB's successors accused the poor man of that...
...5) Sure, there are abuses and mistaken outcomes...
...Speaker Gingrich set an excellent example for the whole government by making House bills and reports available to the public in electronic form at no charge...
...We have another star, L. Brooks Patterson, in Oakland County...
...West claims to have a copyright, among other reasons, because, by special arrangement with the courts, it edits released opinions for mistakes in spelling and grammar, faulty citations to past cases and, as a recent West brochure boasts, for "possible substantive errors...
...He demanded to know why "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was not closed-captioned when seen on cable television...
...In fact, the justices seem to be more concerned with appearances than Ms...
...Allow me a personal example...
...In a paragraph regarding the Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist, Rabkin writes, "More recently, Rehnquist gave a special briefing to a West-sponsored gala for editors of state bar journals . . ." This is incorrect...
...Toni House Public Information Officer Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C...
...The description of his visit to the WWII museum, though, contains an off-hand remark, in parentheses, that I find out of character...
...Von Drehle demolishes this assumption, in part through his recounting of the Bundy case...
...He was not even in the city of Washington when it occurred...
...Yet his own presentation of the event does more disservice to history than any malfeasant Times editor could...
...He calls for our society to renounce "materialism," an exhortation backed by an account of Native American culture evidently lifted from Pocahontas...
...If, however, you accept the idea of the man who suggested cutting the letters section, I will quit...
...We saw an LSO desperately waving off a pilot who was frozen at the controls...
...We can't tell employers, 'You must do X in this particular situation and then you'll have complied.' They have to take their best shot at it...
...It sees the problem for people with disabilities as one of dependency and exclusion caused by barriers created by others...
...It keeps you honest, and creates the illusion, at least, that The American Spectator is a forum for ideas...
...And, as with Clinton, the "pain" she "feels" most intensely seems to be that of squawking liberal groups...
...I suggest reading the information and then apologizing to the 300,000 narcoleptics in this nation...
...To put closed-captioning on the entire series now would cost us over $50,000 as well as the cable broadcaster $100,000 to reformat their tapes...
...Narcolepsy is an inherited physical illness that attacks the person's ability to stay awake and causes sudden loss of the body muscle tone...
...I should have acknowledged that opinions of the federal courts of appeal and many district courts can be retrieved by modem—but only by dialing each court separately, wrestling with distinctly non-user-friendly systems, and paying court-imposed fees of 75 cents per minute in most circuits ("a confiscatory tax on public information," as Chief Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit described the fee last January...
...You can replicate that in the family car...
...Thus he was well qualified to work with his Soviet counterparts...
...At this time the student is told whether or not a learning disability has been diagnosed and, if so, to which academic accommodations he/she is entitled...
...Meanwhile, a formal complaint has been filed against Judge John Minor Wisdom for accepting a $15,000 prize award from West while presiding over a major case involving a challenge to West's monopolistic practices...
...He says "it would be far more effective" to provide "subsidies to employers" who hire such people...
...A press aide at the Administrative Office of the United States Courts protested (in an angry private letter) that my article was "simply untrue" in its claim that the federal Judicial Conference had "voted not to make judicial opinions directly available to the public electronically...
...Sue S. Williams ADA Compliance Officer Statesboro...
...But the fact remains that the West Company, which is very much in business for profit, spent a lot of money to entertain editors of state bar journals and, in this setting, somehow arranged for the Supreme Court to provide a special briefing from which competing publishers were excluded...
...Adding rudder would cause a normal aircraft to "yaw...
...Yet her own article in Science (November 18, 1994) cites a Soviet account of sixty-eight, which she and her colleagues say "may include most or all of those who died...
...Altgilbers Springfield, Pennsylvania I believe John Corry made several errors when he continually stated the engine "stalled...
...No one more than I would like to find the record of the faulty ventilation system or the deliberate act of malice, whatever it was, that caused those sixty-six deaths...
...This hardly warrants the verbal excesses and slanders of Bovard and others...
...Sleepiness denied me education, and life was a constant battle to stay awake and employed...
...High Court Hire I write in response to an article by Jeremy Rabkin ("Judges for Sale," TAS, June 1995...
...Von Drehle shows that this is not the case, and that there is no relation between the severity of a murderer's crime and the likelihood that he will be executed...
...Why didn't Justice Kennedy think of this before the Devitt Prize began receiving negative publicity in the Minneapolis Star and elsewhere...
...died there...
...It made him famous, and may have brought him to the CIA's attention, but it was bad science...
...It is to Rocca's credit that he does not share the common assumption on this point...
...Georgia James Bovard replies: Professor Kendall asserts that "the law is clear"—and then repeats the rote phrases of ADA defenders: "reasonable accommodation," "perform the essential functions," and "undue hardship...
...House gives—the secretary of the American Association of Legal Publishers (AALP) wrote to Chief Justice Rehnquist, himself, to protest that the West Company had arranged to have this briefing provided for participants in a West-sponsored conference, while excluding representatives of competing publishing firms...
...If true, then the adult cable channels would have to close-caption all of their shows from 8 to 11 p.m...
...I apologize for the error...
...throttle did...
...He (and they) concluded that we had converted large parts of Vietnam into permanent wasteland, and killed or maimed thousands of innocent Vietnamese even unto the second and third generation via genetic damage and birth defects...
...Dead End I take strong exception to Francis X. Rocca's claim that "no one with a firmly made-up mind will find it changed" by reading David Von Drehle's Among the Lowest of the Dead (TAS, July 1995...
...As the Court's public information officer, I made the arrangements for and attended the briefing...
...Two of the readers who complained in July's Correspondence, that's who...
...That fact is almost as frightening as the deaths themselves...
...Labeled lazy and a "ne'er-do-well," she was unable to stay married, hold a job, or do housework...
...To categorize a medically established, physical disorder with excessive body odors, obesity, drug addiction, chemical sensitivity, and sexual addiction is unforgivable...
...I still think there is a lot here for Congress to look into...
...Congress would perform a great public service if it investigated why it is that courts do not make their opinions readily accessible to the public, as the House now does with its work product—and why it is that one firm receiving privileged access to court opinions is allowed to lobby the judges for continuing privileges in ways that would make even a congressman blush...
...Professor Guillemin goes back and justifies belief in every lie provided by the Soviet regime and its agents of disinformation...
...What Dr...
...and (continued on page 12) to The American Spectator September 1995 "Oh yeah, baby...
...Trying to maintain a "nose up" or "level" altitude when there is a loss of power causes an aircraft, or more specifically, the wing, to stall (more drag than lift was created), which in turn causes the aircraft to pitch nose down...
...Unfortunately it was Meselson's version that caught on and that continues to be the generally accepted one, even though numerous later investigations, most recently by the Communicable Disease Centers in Atlanta, support the NAS view, not Meselson's...
...Kendall claims that "universal design" of all facilities to accommodate handicapped people should be the norm for society...
...Bernd Ulken Reno, Nevada Michigan Off the Rocks I read Robert Novak's article, "My Favorite Career Pol" (TAS, July 1995), with pride...
...In mid-May, just as my article was appearing, the Baltimore Sun reported that Justice Kennedy "had several discussions with West executives" regarding the West-administered $15,000 cash award for judges...
...Regarding the letter of Sue Williams—who states that she is an ADA Compliance Officer at some university which she does not identify—several questions arise...
...This testing procedure insures that all students declaring a learning disability within this university system are assessed in a standardized way...
...Kara Hultgreen was not...
...The wrath of the Russian state came down upon him: he was imprisoned a couple of times, and then tried for revealing state secrets...
...The EEOC officially defined "accommodation" as "any change in the work environment or in the way things are customarily done that enables an individual with a disability to enjoy equal employment opportunities" Thus the employer may be required to restructure a person's job and other activities in order to create a facade of equal opportunity...
...Corry notes that the Navy's Mishap Report was leaked to several news organizations, which took little notice...
...We didn't rule it out...
...He should have looked elsewhere for an example of subverted truth...
...Contrary to Ledeen's assertion, our research was in no way galvanized by Boris Yeltsin's 1992 announcement that the military laboratory was the anthrax source...
...How can the hiring of a page-turner or job coach for one worker but not the next be a form of non-discrimination...
...In the Vietnam-war era he was a key member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science committee that investigated the effects of our use of defoliant herbicides (Agent Orange, etc...
...Regarding Kendall's claims that a system of explicit job subsidies to encourage hiring the handicapped is "a system of bribes," I do not concede that "the market has failed" for the handicapped...
...It is certainly an improvement, however, to remove West from the administration of the prize...
...We saw pilot error from beginning to end...
...Nor did the public health workers, the families of the victims, or the seven survivorsdemand to know the vector of this epidemic...
...It was the decision of the editors at Navy Times to put the MIR online, not "whoever leaked it to the news organizations," as stated in the article...
...My story was about the discrepancies between the two...
...It is a bit late in the day to be shocked at Soviet denials of the truth about Soviet society The American Spectator September 1995 71 and the Soviets' own illegal activities...
...O'Rourke in these hysterical screeds...
...Did you really mean that comment...
...The pilot finally did respond, by jamming on full throttle and killing the left engine...
...Prof Jeanne Guillemin Department of Sociology Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Michael Ledeen's piece left out one of Harvard Professor Matthew Meselson's most notable "accomplishments" on behalf of the bad guys...
...We stand by the decision, however, as both responsible journalism and a responsible use of on-line technology...
...I can assure you that thousands of old fighter pilots, those who know a hammerhead stall from a falling leaf, saw right through that 4-second video the Navy let out before the media smoke screen was in place...
...I guess I was one of the lucky ones, since I did not receive a follow-up call from this self-appointed compassion cmsader...
...Justin Levine Playa Del Rey, California James Bovard attacks the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA...
...Stephens, Mr...
...Upon seeing a replica of a bombed-out street of Berlin, he comments: "I liked that one a lot...
...I responded that I was unfamiliar with this passage, but that it seemed rather silly...
...William Dement of Stanford University began the in-depth research in the late 1960s...
...MacTarnaghan, or (especially) Mr...
...As we found out when the three Soviet physicians visited in 1988, the disease persisted over eight weeks, a profile inconsistent with a single airborne emission from the military laboratory...
...Becky Garrison Staff writer, Navy Times Springfield, Virginia Thanks to you and John Cony for bringing out the truth about "The Death of Kara Hultgreen...
...Gary D. Jensen Lake Jackson, Texas After reading all the "Cancel my subscription" letters in recent issues, I was wondering if there were still enough subscribers left to support your magazine...
...Unlike most media reports on the MIR, our story noted the similarities between its conclusions and those included earlier in the "JAGMAN" report...
...This condition can't be changed unless opposite rudder is applied and the nose is forced down, allowing the plane to actually fly again...
...We love our great governor, John Engler...
...It is well and good for a professor to claim that these terms are clear, but they are a Pandora's box for American businessmen trying to comply with the law...
...3) Could it be that Bovard has a medical model of people with disabilities in mind...
...Marian E. Schultz Rochester Hills, Michigan On the Way to the Forum Once again The American Spectator sets the tone in modern parody...
...Two points made by Von Drehle are especially telling...
...While the listing of ludicrous court cases is enough to make one gag, Mr...
...He has recently agreed with President Clinton to look into necessary reforms of congressional lobbying practices...
...And amidst the pettifogging legalism of his colleagues, Thomas was often the sole champion of sturdy common sense, as in Capitol Square, where he noted how strange it was to treat the Klan cross as a religious symbol...
...Although his Hultgreen column was a good piece of writing, Mr...
...Michael Ledeen replies: First of all, my thanks to Warren Robinson...
...Winczura Chilliwack, British Columbia John Corry replies: I regret that I did not give the Navy Times credit for putting the MIR online, but the rest of Ms...
...In 1979, an official Soviet epidemiologist constructed a map based only on residences of victims, which produced a scattered distribution of cases...
...It never ceases to amaze me that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior," he wrote in Jenkins...
...So she may feel confident in accusing me of doing damage to the truth, but she can't even decide which Soviet version to embrace...
...My mother spent a lifetime undiagnosed, confused, and unable to stay awake...
...as best left in the custody of professionals or others who know best...
...Thus it is a narrowly crafted recognition of both economic realities and common sense...
...Among other howlers, Mr...
...A "stalled" aircraft can't fly, it drops like a rock...
...CI JEREMY RABKIN (continued from page 27) The good news is that Justice Thomas emerged as a powerful independent voice on the Court...
...Like the chief clinician (who would later speak in Washington), he never investigated further than was politically expedient...
...Military City Online, a part of America Online, is operated by the Army Times Publishing Company, which owns Navy Times...
...Only then may the student request accommodations in the classroom that are specific to their disability...
...Professor GuiIlemin denounces me for failing to accept the Soviet figure on the death: sixty-six, she says...
...The lesson for the Republican Congress: Ignore media clucking about the Court's "turn to the right" and don't rely on the Court to resolve the country's most contentious social issues...
...the next time they sit down to watch Debbie Does Dallas...
...None of this is a major scandal...
...It might also be anaccommodation for the employer to pay for that job coach...
...Rudder didn't kill the engine...
...Walter J. Kendall III Professor of Law The John Marshall Law School Chicago, Illinois James Bovard categorizes narcolepsy among a "proliferation of new disabilities...
...This conclusion was published in Science (November 18, 1994...
...It seeks to promote self-reliance and responsibility...
...So who has the dirty minds...
...Cynthia Pierre, the deputy director for the EEOC's Chicago district office, declared last year: "Accommodating a [disabled] person is very individualized...
...When I read Von Drehle's book, I found that many of the assumptions on which I had based my longstanding support of capital punishment were false, and I eventually reversed my stand on that issue...
...The date is of some interest, because on February 3—well before the actual event, though well after the date Ms...
...1) His major premise that "there are virtually no limits" to what the ADA requires or that it gives "some people [the] legal power to make unlimited demands" is neither accurate nor a fair statement of the law...
...To say someone or something "sucked" meant he or it "sucked" wind or air, i.e...
...With information on daily wind velocity, we concluded that on April 2, 1979, anthrax spores were emitted from that military laboratory and blew into the city...
...As should be clear from the summary of the ADA in paragraph 1, it is about qualified people having the opportunity to participate in public and governmental functions and get jobs...
...Nothing could be further from the truth throughout the university system in which my school is located...
...CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 12) giant step in working with faculty on accommodations in the classroom...
...As he implies in describing the Webster School and the BART, perhaps they should be segregated in their own facilities...
...Responsibility for her fate rests at least in part on such feminists as Pat Schroeder and their fernininny followers...
...It may be in some circumstances that will be required...
...The Kremlin had been well advised of our trip to Ekaterinburg...
...Should special interests pursue such flapdoodle with legal consent, however, the hearing-impaired may sleep well at night knowing that they will be able to read "Oooh...
...While I trust others will take issue with many aspects of Rabkin's commentary, I simply wish to correct one assertion of fact of which I have personal knowledge and know to be in complete error...
...But why should government force building companies to squander a high percentage of the floor space in all small apartments to make halls and doorways large enough for wheelchairs when only a tiny percentage of renters will ever use wheelchairs in their homes...
...What sort of questions are asked to students seeking the disabled label, and what sort of accommodations are made...
...The EEOC's Bell also observed: "Whether or not [the hiring of] a personal assistant would be required for toileting and eating is going to have to be determined on a case by case basis...
...Aaah...
...While working as the distribution supervisor for MTM Enterprises, I received a call from an activist claiming to represent an organization for the hearing-impaired...
...Patterson will lead us...
...It is undoubtedly true that David Von Drehle will not persuade Ernest van den Haag to abandon his support of capital punishment, and to the extent that capital punishment supporters share van den Haag's dogmatism on the subject, Rocca is surely correct in his claim...
...The law is clear...
...As far back as 1991, the Administrative Office of the court system recommended a central electronic depository of all court opinions...
...The fact that the tests to qualify for a learning disability dispensation last a certain number of hours doesn't prove that the system is not an invitation to shirkers...
...This makes a farce of the concept of equal opportunity: requiring an employer to spend.an extra $25,000 per year to provide "equal opportunity" to one employee—$25,000 that could have gone instead to the salaries of other employees...
...House acknowledges...
...House says, on January 16...
...Hultgreen didn't have enough altitude to complete this maneuver...
...To do that, we made no presumptions about the claims of either government...
...Why should bureaucrats have the right to throw a huge wrench into apartment designs that intentionally sacrifices the interests of 98 percent of renters...
...The credibility of this program has been a (continued on page 70) 12 The American Spectator September 1995 Americans are dreaming if they think capitalism is anything other than a transitional phase in pursuit of some method of economic organization that insures the well-being of all members of society...
...Sudden loss of muscle tone is called cataplexy...
...That sentence implies that the Chief Justice personally delivered the "briefing" in question...
...CORRESPONDENCE Kara Hultgreen's Times As a reporter for an independent weekly newspaper that closely follows the Navy, I was so disappointed to find a glaring inaccuracy in John Cony's article "The Death of Kara Hultgreen" (TAS, June 1995...
...Ted Edin Wayzata, Minnesota I agree with the letter writers who object to the smut on the cover of the May issue...
...The EEOC also noted, "Providing personal assistants, such as a page turner for an employee with no hands . . . may also be a reasonable accommodation...
...The EEOC has abysmally failed to clearly establish the legal obligations of businesses...
...in Vietnam...
...The student and his/her family must complete a pre-test packet of historical information, the student has a pre-test interview of approximately one hour, followed the next day by an eight-hour battery of tests—and finally a two-hour post-test debriefing that the parents may also be invited to attend...
...Then as a young widow, alone, I supported and raised my three children without welfare assistance...
...As Ms...
...House's error, a subsequent letter from the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice, who claimed to be "writing on behalf of the Chief Justice," insisted that it was "thepolicy of the Supreme Court not to favor any particular publishing or legal editing entity" and offered to arrange a separate briefing for West competitors...
...What he means is unclear, but he runs the risk of falling into the same hypocritical stance as Al Gore, who Easterbrook rightly ridicules for finding "jets and homes and driveways only objectionable when SOMEBODY ELSE desires them...
...It was on February 16...
...My particular disappointment was Mr...
...But what better way to make sure that the abilities of people with disabilities are available to all of us...
...What better way to accommodate the dignity of all persons...
...I still question the propriety of having a profit-oriented company fund cash prizes for judges—or of awarding any sort of cash prize to judges, just for doing their already well-paid jobs...
...Many suffer multiple concussions, fractures, and even death from injuries sustained during a fall...
...The businessman takes his best shot—and then the disabled person's lawyers are cordially invited by the EEOC to take their best shot at the businessman...
...One final point on the good Professor Meselson: In 1992, a Russian scientist named Vil Mirzayanov blew the cover on an illegal Soviet chemical weapon called Novichok, a binary killer gas eight-to-ten times as powerful as anything in Western arsenals...
...Second, many supporters of capital punishment assume that everyone being executed is in the Ted Bundy class...
...The Board of Regents has established a set of testing criteria by which all students declaring a learning disability must be evaluated...
...The Judicial Conference voted not to adopt this system in September 1992, at a time when recipients of West-company largesse 72 The American Spectator September 1995 were well-represented on the Conference...
...No apology, then consider this my letter of cancellation to The American Spectator...
...We were in the Moscow airport waiting to fly home when we read the news release...
...To set the record straight, the briefing to which Rabkin refers was conducted January 16, 1995, by the Supreme Court of the United States' two assistant public information officers, Kathleen L. Arberg and Edward L. Turner, for participants in an annual Legal Editors Exchange...
...As long as we are nit-picking, however, I should note that the briefing was not, as Ms...
...Complaints about judicial misconduct must be referred to immediate colleagues of the judge, who retain very broad discretion in reviewing such complaints...
...Bovard should have researched medical information before writing...
...A free enterprise economy, like the environment itself, can withstand a great deal of pounding, but we need the help of honest environmental journalists to keep us from abusing either the Earth or the economy through folly and ignorance...
...Universal design" that benefits the entire society ought to be the norm...
...Bovard, it is stupid, uneducated comments that perpetuate misunderstanding of narcolepsy...
...You're Gonna Make It After All Kudos to James Bovard ("The Lame Game," TAS, July 1995) for showing just how big a monstrosity the Americans With Disabilities Act really is...
...One of the rare figures in the American scientific community who refused to sign a statement or let his name be used in behalf of the movement to free Mirzayanov was . . . Matthew Meselson, who told one of the organizers that he considered Mirzayanov to be "just like Jonathan Pollard," a spy...
...Garrison's complaint leaves me baffled...
...The market has failed for the kind of people who are increasingly abusing the ADA—people who like to sleep late and then claim they suffer from narcolepsy, people who used illicit drugs and later claim to be deserving victims, and people who engage in violent 70 The American Spectator September 1995 or abusive behavior at the workplace and then claim to be entitled under federal law...
...She makes statements so absurdly naive that one gulps at the thought that this is an internationally renowned intellectual: No Soviet citizen actually demanded the evidence from the authorities, and "that fact is almost as frightening as the deaths themselves...
...and then only if the person seeking the accommodation is able to "perform the essential functions" of the position, and further only if such accommodation would not cause the employer "undue hardship...
...Lorraine Highland Ashford, Washington I would like to comment on James Bovard's lame article...
...If these barriers are removed, independence and integration become possible...
...In effect, the Supreme Court allowed West to project itself as a firm with special ties to the Supreme Court—an appearance West's competitors naturally resented...
...However, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was produced in the 1970s, before captioning was an industry standard...
...Bovard's assumption that in order for students to bypass a course, they simply find a friendly shrink, and cross his palm to receive an illegible note that certifies them as "–disabled...
...It's always nice to get more evidence than one had to begin with...
...After severe loss of muscle tone began, my years of hard work to a decent income was for naught...
...Meanwhile, I have no intention of arguing with R. Winczura, except to point out that the Navy pilots I spoke to all said the engine stalled...
...To begin, the epidemic killed sixty-six people, not several hundreds as the CIA claimed and Ledeen repeats...
...I wrote that the MIR attracted little attention in the press, which was true...
...This version, simplistic as it may sound as I am not aware of the entire details, explains what a "stalled" aircraft is as opposed to a stalled engine...
...But what did anyone know about anthrax...
...Indeed, the geographic area is contaminated by anthrax, a fact that had to be weighed against the existence of the military laboratory...
...House responded, presumably on the Chief Justice's behalf, with a letter explaining that the West-sponsored "program is one designed for editors, not publishers, and our agreement to participate was premised on the opportunity to talk to journalists, not legal publishers such as those listed in the membership roster [of AALP...
...Williamson purport to be...
...It is unclear what action will follow from the filing of this complaint, however...
...Since publishing the MIR, we have received many letters and commentaries condemning us for this "irresponsible," "contemptible," and "unprofessional" decision...
...Warren C. Robinson Washington, D.C...
...He at least acknowledges the market has failed for people with disabilities...
...Apparently, this was no excuse...
...And he knows or should know better...
...If I got to work on time, often, I could not get from my car into the office...
...It's called good science...
...The case-by-case system gets it right much more than not...
...In Washington State, accommodations for narcolepsy, including flex-time, are part of the state regulations...
...Chris Bell, EEOC's assistant legal counsel, observed in 1991, "If a person with the disability had a job coach, it would be a reasonable accommodation for the employer to permit that person to bring it...
...Women may or may not be qualified to serve as carrier-based fighter pilots...
...He has been quoted as saying that this AAAS Report is the single piece of work of which he is most proud...
...That's the nature of the legal process...
...Many capital punish-ment supporters assume that the long delays involved in executing death row inmates result from, in Rocca's words, "meddlesome public defenders filing spurious appeals...
...I was also never able to confirm the precise contents of the Americans With Disabilities Act (I don't have a free month to spare in order to read it...
...4) Rather, an "independent living" model underlies the ADA...
...Autopsy data which we retrieved and analyzed supported this scenario...
...His arguments were often dazzling in their scholarly range (his references to classical texts and neglected conservative commentaries ought to be collected as a bibliographic guide for aspiring jurists...
...Obviously Lt...
...Thanks also to Professor Guillemin, the sociology prof from Boston College who accompanied Meselson, for providing still more evidence of the accuracy of my article...
...New immunological research on anthrax indicates why it can indeed "rest" in the human lungs, with symptoms occurring weeks after exposure...
...however, in stalled flight, this could cause a roll or (given enough altitude) a spin...
...The caller cited a passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which supposedly requires all prime time television programming to be closed-captioned...
...Without muscles you can't even crawl...
...Eric A. Voellm Coxsackie, New York The American Spectator September 1995 73...
...Narcolepsy was first diagnosed in the early 1900s...
...Ben Stein, innocent little children (like Tommy...
...America has made great and laudable progress in accommodating the handicapped in recent decades—but the ADA is a step backwards because it sets up bureaucrats and judges as czars over private voluntary agreements...
...He was fearless in scorning liberal pieties...
...I had to begin working at age 15...
...We also put the full text of the MIR on line...
...It requires only "reasonable accommodations...
...I believe the Navy's version is the correct one: the engine "failed...
...The deadly disease so rarely affects humans that even the treating physicians could not tell whether the deaths were from intestinal anthrax (from eating infected sheep or cows, not pigs) or from the inhalation of spores...
...Queenan and the American Spectator are accused of complicity in the murder of 600,000 potential subscribers per year...
...Many narcoleptics wind up unemployed, housebound, unable to drive, unable to shop, even unable to answer the phone because of cataplexy...
...Emphasis added.] Implicitly acknowledging Ms...
...I have sent you medical information about narcolepsy along with the Washington State accommodations pamphlet...
...There are always those who will "use" a new law to improve the condition of their pocketbooks, and ADA is no different...
...I remember when "Michigan on the Rocks" wasn't an alcoholic drink...
...Andrew C. Batten Port Washington, New York Re: "Why the GOP Doesn't Suck" banner and piece by P.J...
...Yeltsin, having been the Communist Party boss of the entire Ekaterinburg oblast, probably knew what he was talking about...
...Corry should have been aware that many aviators would be reading his article and he should be "aviationally correct" when the use of terms unfamiliar to him are involved...
...Notwithstanding his shaky normative ground, Easterbrook is to be credited for doing what reporters are supposed to do: work hard to give us the facts...
...The bad news is that the conservative impulse on the Court can rarely muster a majority without concessions to the soft, muddled sensibilities of the Court's swing voters...
...In 1992 and 1993, in my interviews with the families of victims, I ascertained where each victim was during the day in the weeks prior to death (at work, at home, on military reserve duty, etc...
...If they are qualified and if reasonable accommodations can be made and if no undue hardship is placed on the employer, a person with a disability has a "right" to compete...
...West agreed to delegate the administration of the prize to the independent, non-profit American Judicature Society...
...Several later investigations, including one by the National Academy of Sciences (to which I was a consultant), sharply disputed these conclusions, as well as the data and the methodology that were supposed to support them...
...Mark Wylie Los Angeles, California Berlin Diarist Regarding Ben Stein's Diary in the July issue: I enjoy reading Ben Stein's sensitive prose...
...If the country steals John Engler, hopefully L.B...
...If there had been ADA in 1982, maybe I could have stayed employed through understanding and with the help of flex hours...
...Our efforts to uncover what went on at the military laboratory have so far been fruitless...
...Surely no actual Spectator reader could be such a screechy wreck as Mr...
...And it should be pointed out that all of the final court decisions Bovard refers to rule for the employer...
...T.E...
...My presumption was that he wanted to scoop our story, not realizing how long we would sift over our findings...
...It is often poignant to the point of wooing the reader to cry and laugh with him...
...Like the current rules for distributing new court opinions and citing past cases in legal briefs, the system for reviewing judicial misconduct was designed by the judges for their own convenience...
...This illustrates the fundamental dishonesty of the ADA's lexicon...
...Perhaps Kendall should check how many blind people have driver's licenses...
...stood for nothing, or perpetuated a void...
...The Chief Justice was not there, nor was his participation ever contemplated...
...These evaluations are neither a brief encounter with a psychologist nor cheap...
...The rest was inevitable...
...Garrison should boast about it...
...I am not now on disability by choice...
...And why should banks be forced to spend thousands of dollars to put Braille type on ATM machines at drive-through bank windows...
...This information, plotted on the city map, revealed a straight line running southeast from the military laboratory...
...What percent of students at her university officially qualify as disabled...
...He may be thinking of them as sick or ill...
...I recall full well the origins of the term from my days as a high school student in the 1950s...
...More than 10 percent of students at public schools in some states have officially been labeled as learning disabled...
...and if our justice system sees fit to allow them to prevail in court, that's another subject...
...Do I rightly sense the hand of P.J...
...as needing to be fixed or cured...
Vol. 28 • September 1995 • No. 9
