Correspondence
Correspondence Self-Impog Enat, Suffering Senators Andrew Ferguson's piece about self-righteous ex-senators rings true ("Foolish Senators, Tough Choices," May 20). Several months ago I had the...
...The 1997 sectional will be more exciting than it has been in 20 years...
...The Violence Against Women Act provides states with crucial resources and ensures that offenders will more likely be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and jailed...
...Music is free to anyone who wants to play or listen to it...
...As the interviewer listened breathlessly, Bradley droned on, lamenting a political process in which the great unwashed won't sit still for all of his policy "solutions...
...It is still mostly boys who have to ask girls to the dance or boys who have to be protective of a girl they are going out with...
...If you are still unsure, please come visit...
...My amendment to end this shameful and wasteful abuse of taxpayers' money was approved without a single opposing vote by the House National Security Committee and without opposition by the entire House...
...Crittenden expands her disagreement with Dole on one piece of legislation into a broad statement that he doesn't understand "the consensus of his constituency-male and female...
...Contrary to Crittenden's assertions, they did so for good reasons...
...That's an unreasonable stretch...
...This year we won 58-1...
...Guarantee access and you will save the private system...
...It gives victims the right of mandatory restitution and the right to address the court at the time of sentencing...
...I submit that all of these characteristics prove his outstanding conviction...
...Bret Hart is "The Hit Man...
...In a single paragraph she lauds Dole-"compared to his opponent he is manly, decent, honorable, a respectful and faithful husband, and a war hero"-then faults him for lack of conviction and vision...
...Though I was sympathetic to the idea of a multicultural group, I felt like the group was preaching exclusivity, not diversity...
...With the consolidation of many high schools it is impossible for the small schools to compete...
...Every year we have to go through the motions of playing the teams in the area during the sectional...
...I find it very emotional...
...Mark Zaslav Oakland, CA Dole's Gender Trap Danielle Crittenden's criticism of Bob Dole's support of the Violence Against Women Act ("Dole's Gender Trap," May 20) ignores the fundamental purposes of the act: to strengthen federal penalties for interstate domestic violence and to provide resources to state governments (not feminist groups) for prosecutors, police, and victim services...
...Even if the pilot were male and seven years old it would be just as stupid...
...The first franchise that decides to drop the anthem altogether will be doing everyone a favor...
...Roscoe G. Bartlett Member of Congress Washington, DC Music's Universal Notes Of all the articles appearing in THE WEEKLY STANDARD that have chronicled the excesses of political correctness and cultural diversity, none has left me more dispirited than Jay Nordlinger's "Race Notes" (May 20...
...Watch our baseball team play the area parochial school...
...I'll be happy to save you a seat...
...Whoa, has Caldwell no soul...
...Martin Morse Wooster Silver Spring, MD Take Me Out for the Anthem Christopher Caldwell has obviously not been to a New York Yankees game this season ("Oh Say, Can You Cease...
...The current MSA proposal will encourage lower-paid employees, who are typically covered by first-dollar HMO plans, to opt out of the system...
...I've been to Yankee Stadium three times so far this year, and each time the Yankee organization has treated fans to an excellent rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Could his Confucian roots be any farther away from the Baroque compositions of Bach...
...The so-called feminist support of Jessica's flight made me recall an event at my school that was presented by the Multi-Cultural Students Union...
...Come with me to Yankee Stadium almost any weekend...
...Players and fans remove their caps, and stadium workers stop hurling peanuts and hawking Cracker Jack...
...His nickname is "Macho Man...
...Football in Indiana is in the class system...
...Watts play a Mozart piano concerto, I do not listen with the aim of seeing whether a black man can capture the subtleties of what some would have us believe is the sole province of white Europeans...
...That is the only conclusion I can draw from your incredibly flippant coverage of my amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill ("A Well-Oiled Amendment," Scrapbook, May 20...
...When I listen to Andr...
...Jeffrey R Miles Los Angeles, CA Fair Play for the Skinny Kids Richard Starr has been away from the flat lands too long ("The Final Score Is: Indiana 0, Indiana 0," May 13...
...Your parodist has Dick Morris calling for President Clinton to "Attend World Wrestling Federation championship match between Randy 'The Hit Man' Savage and The Blonde Avenger...
...Will Tomlinson Lakeville, CT Leave MSAs for Later With respect to Fred Barnes's article "Kennedy-Kassebomb" (May 13), Medical Savings Accounts have been polarizing Congress over an issue that should have nothing to do with Kennedy-Kassebaum and its ultimate goal: to mandate portability of health insurance...
...The more people covered, the lower the risk...
...It's not that way everywhere...
...What fools these mortals be...
...To discourage participation in health insurance is to invite a system in which uncovered employees in auto accidents end up in hospitals, with their costs shifted to the insured population...
...Arthur M. Shatz Bayside, NY Wrestling with Clinton While THE WEEKLY STANDARD s staff knows a great deal about a great many things, they need to spend more time watching professional wrestling (Parody, May 20...
...Feminism remains an issue...
...Adam L. Leader New York, NY Christopher Caldwell writes, "The national anthem almost invariably stinks...
...His employer is World Championship Wrestling...
...It is tragic that we have allowed our minds to become imprisoned behind the bars of cultural and racial stereotypes, thus providing the grist for the diversity crowd's mill...
...Flying at age seven is beyond a risk, it's just stupid...
...Come tournament time, I think it is more exciting to face a team that you have a chance to beat than to face a team with no doubts...
...Savage is no longer a member of the World Wrestling Federation...
...Several months ago I had the misfortune to hear an NPR interview with Sen...
...Needless to say, these two teams do not meet in the tournament...
...MSAs were originally designed to help people save money (similar to IRAs) for future health care...
...Among my friends, race or religion is not really a factor...
...Local and national performers sing-clearly and beautifully-to respectful fans...
...The physical talent pool in a school of 3,000 is always going to be better than that of a school with 300...
...Randy Savage is not "The Hit Man...
...Vincennes is the largest town in the area...
...It is not about a self-esteem-fest...
...Seth B. Zuckerman, Age 12 Philadelphia, PA...
...There George Steinbrenner presents Robert Merrill singing the national anthem...
...But feminism does not mean, in my opinion, taking a risk not worth taking...
...It's Insurance 101...
...The same scenario will apply for basketball and the other sports that will be divided into the class system in 1997...
...it is about competition...
...And what of Yo-Yo Ma...
...Bill Bradley...
...Class basketball is the right thing to do...
...The fact that not a single member of Congress would stand up to even request a vote on this amendment is prima facie evidence of its political resonance with the American people, if not with the Scrapbook staff...
...The act makes it a federal crime to cross state lines to perpetrate abuse...
...To make it worse, they actually think they've invented something...
...First, all but one member of the group was African American...
...Perhaps the problem Caldwell describes is another instance of Washington's disconnect from the real world...
...Even when this man was king of New York, with the quickest outside jump shot in the NBA, he was never so thuddingly self-important...
...Having experienced the pure joy of making music with people of all races, I can think of no human endeavor where race is more irrelevant than music...
...Tina Osting Hidde Vincennes, IN Children Shouldn't Fly Thank you for Wendy Shalit's article "The Death of Girlhood" (April 29...
...Clinton, Dole, and strong bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress supported this legislation...
...The real story is that guaranteed access to health insurance automatically will lower the cost of health care...
...William Longmuir Ocala, FL Bartlett on Smut Patrol Apparently, THE WEEKLY STANDARD believes that Americans in general and women in particular would want the federal government to continue to subsidize the distribution of sexually explicit material at Defense Department facilities with their tax dollars...
...It was great...
...This school has not lost a sectional in 20 years...
...Department of Justice Washington, DC I was astounded at the rationale expressed in Danielle Crittenden's article...
...We face the flag and sing the words...
...The average offensive lineman at Ben Davis High School (3,000 students) is 6'3", 250 pounds...
...and requires states to enforce protective orders issued in other states...
...Second, presenters read poems and speeches from civil rights leaders that praised African Americans but criticized whites...
...While all he can focus on is the anthem at the beginning, the tunes between innings, and cues on the scoreboard, we regular folk are just watching the game...
...I certainly would not call it competition...
...MSAs should not be tied to this bill...
...We have an incredible basketball tradition...
...When Eric Clapton plays the blues, is his music invalidated because the blues are somehow only part of the "black experience...
...Flying is challenging for experienced older pilots, never mind a seven-year-old who can't reach some levers and pedals...
...Some of these games have been almost painful to watch...
...Bonnie J. Campbell Director, Violence Against Women U.S...
...The interview reminded me of a maxim: Whenever you hear people advertising themselves as being beyond Left and Right, know that they are of the Left...
...Your beef is with the Orioles, or the O's turkey who brought in the grungeball Edwin McCain to sing the national anthem...
...creates a national domestic-violence hotline...
...The average offensive lineman at Milan is 5'11", 180 pounds...
Vol. 1 • June 1996 • No. 37
