Correspondence
Correspondence Commuetsm, Not Dead Yet After reading your excellent issue on anti-communism (April 1), I was surprised to find that not one of your contributing writers touched upon the reality...
...Gregory Giordano New Port Richey, FL Real Diversity Wins Your editorial "Diversity Strikes Out" (April 1) presented a coherent overview of the issues and impact of the Hopwood v. Texas appeals court decision...
...Instead, it considers the experiences, ideas, and aspirations of applicants, for which race is a poor proxy...
...Communism has only temporarily retreated to obtain modern technology from the capitalist world and to restructure its forces before it moves forward again...
...A danger of relying solely on the public commitment of a candidate, instead of also looking at his innermost convictions, is that what's public today may not be public tomorrow...
...In present-day Nicaragua, American lives don't have to be risked to promote these ideals...
...Correspondence Commuetsm, Not Dead Yet After reading your excellent issue on anti-communism (April 1), I was surprised to find that not one of your contributing writers touched upon the reality that communism is not dead, but is very much alive and active...
...Racial goals or "aspirations" like those of the University of Texas law school aim for a shallow kind of diversity...
...It is incomprehensible why it now refuses to spend a minimal amount of time and energy to ensure that these same ideals take root in politically fragile countries like Nicaragua...
...Real diversity does not break down along lines of race...
...Hard...
...The contras were practically disbanded after Congress refused to continue funding them, and Ortega himself signed the U.S.-opposed peace agreement along with the other Central American presidents...
...Mar...
...Kagan is misguided, however, in crediting Nicaragua's transition to democracy in 1990 to U.S...
...Kemp is vice-presidential material...
...25), Robert Kagan clearly brings to light the evident strategic failure and lack of ideological substance of current American foreign policy...
...Anne M. Golonka Las Vegas, NV Kemp for Vice President Iam fascinated by your continued attempt to discredit Jack Kemp ("Patron of Lost Causes," Scrapbook, April 1...
...The opinion reads, "[T]he use of ethnic diversity simply to achieve racial heterogeneity...
...With fragile democracies springing up in many ex-socialist states, the United States finds itself in a position to strengthen and fully establish the ideals of liberty and democracy, ideals that many Americans have died for...
...William T. Barrante Watertown, CT...
...to their names ("Mau-Mauing the Flacks," Mar...
...by women attorneys...
...A person who publicly espouses Christian standards, but has no foundation upon which those beliefs are built, is subject to the winds of compromise...
...policy during the Reagan administration...
...Dole would do well to choose a running mate who is an articulate, nationally known conservative...
...John Podhoretz was entirely correct in his criticism of those "lawyers of the second rank" who arrogantly add "Esq...
...He did a masterful job of investigative reporting...
...Marvin Olasky points to Jefferson as a role model for a modern presidential candidate ("A 19th-Century Campaign," April 1...
...U.S...
...One can only assume that Kemp is once again becoming a threat to those in Washington who do not really want to see dramatic change...
...Jefferson, of course, was a man of unique character...
...But this is the very idea the court stuck down...
...policy of supporting the contras was a partial, if not total, failure...
...is unconstitutional...
...We need to explore the reasons why so many people are seeking to end their lives in such a manner...
...Olasky's theory is that the electorate should not "worry so much about the innermost convictions of candidates, but emphasize their public commitments...
...The court denies that mere racial heterogeneity is constitutionally justified diversity...
...The same establishment journalists who called Kosinski a liar gave Corry a lot of flak for his expos...
...policy, then, although unwavering and ideologically consistent, had little direct influence in Nicaragua's transition to democracy...
...But then again, the senator could please the elite of the Washington-New York media, pick Colin Powell, and reelect Bill Clinton...
...Juan Carlos Rojas Arlington, VA Christian from the Inside As a Christian, I would love to believe that every founding father was also a Christian...
...Libor Brom Lakewood, CO Kosinski and the KGB Ienjoyed J. Bottum's review of James Park Sloan's biography of Jerzy Kosinski ("Congenital Liar," April 1...
...It sent me to my bookshelf for a copy of John Corry's My Times, a modest but great autobiography of Corry's career at the New York Times...
...Now that many of these countries are seemingly ideologically compatible with U.S...
...By the 18th century, the title "Esquire" could be used by any gentleman...
...This eagerness to keep the patient alive at all costs may be the reason that so many people are seeking an assisted death...
...Have they been the beneficiaries of one too many "life-saving" procedures...
...to identify themselves as lawyers shows the inappropriateness of "esquire" as an exclusive title for attorneys...
...The United States spent billions of dollars waging a military and ideological war against communism...
...The Sandinistas in Nicaragua agreed to hold elections in 1990 as a result of a peace plan put forth by the then-president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, a plan opposed by the United States all along Reagan did not think that the Sandinistas would peacefully acquiesce to holding elections, and thought that the only way to oust Daniel Ortega was through military force...
...Paul J. Perrone Springfield, VA Second-Rank Lawyer, Esq...
...whether he is a lawyer or not...
...Kagan correctly points out that all this Central American country needs now to guarantee a continuation of democracy is "a watchful eye...
...Those of us who lived under communism and were exposed to its Leninist tactics are painfully aware of the fact that we live, as Mikhail Gorbachev has said, in the era of the second world socialist revolution...
...Even today, any gentleman can be addressed with "Esq...
...In a 6,500-word expos?, Corry detailed how Kosinski had been the target of a KGB disinformation campaign for years, with the active collaboration of the New York liberal elite...
...A Dole-Kemp ticket would undoubtedly cut into President Clinton's base while shoring up Sen...
...Have their lives been prolonged to the point of agony in order to satisfy the conscience of family members...
...Dole's somewhat shaky conservative standing...
...For example, despite his support of many Christian ideas, Thomas Jefferson most likely would have labeled himself a Deist...
...Olasky states that even though Jefferson rejected the divinity of Jesus Christ he supported many of the things important to Christians...
...In fact, the specific U.S...
...Frederick L. Simmons's explanation of the etymology of "esquire" (Correspondence, April 1) does not go far enough...
...While there is some merit to this argument, there is also danger...
...Marxism-Leninism, with its dialectical and historical materialism, is too powerful an ideology to be discarded by improvised and short-term Western reactions...
...However, the editorial accepts uncritically the notion that diversity is a racial issue...
...Kemp can combine an optimistic pro-growth, flat-tax message with a solid pro-life stance on abortion and can attract minority voters...
...The Hopwood decision strikes a blow for diversity insofar as it will force admissions committees to work harder to admit truly diverse applicants...
...Corry tells how he was assigned to write a feature on Kosinski's problems...
...It was never limited to lawyers...
...Podhoretz was also correct in noting the "comic use" of "Esq...
...Death is the ultimate fact of life, yet modern medicine is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to keep a patient alive even if that life is only an illusion...
...Donald R Holm Port Townsend, WA Democracy in Nicaragua In his article "Remember Nicaragua...
...interests, any type of aid would go farther than ever before in promoting development and stabilizing the region (and would be much cheaper than having to go back years later to finance opposition guerrilla forces...
...The danger is when an occupant of the White House does not have strength of character or integrity...
...The great number of women who have entered the profession and use "Esq...
...Mark Chenoweth New Haven, CT Assisting a Humane Death Your editorial on euthanasia addresses only half the subject ("Euthanasia Horror," Mar...
...It should also encourage conservatives to stop following the liberal lead in pretending that mere racial heterogeneity constitutes the desirable commingling of differences we call diversity...
...A Christian has his or her convictions based on the rock of God's word...
...But history shows that this is not the case...
Vol. 1 • April 1996 • No. 30
