Correspondence

...By every measure, Labor's path was soundly rejected...

...Nordlinger admits, "It may be naive to maintain that music should be immune to the race-fever that afflicts contemporary America...

...The EPA conducted its own investigation, agreed with the critics, and banned ALAR...

...While the marketing is targeted, the concerts are fully integrated among the orchestra's main series offerings...

...David Fenton Washington, DC...

...In the search for Robinson professors, therefore, we have always looked for outstanding individuals irrespective of field, and we have never conducted a search for a teacher in any particular discipline...

...For over a decade, we have searched for and appointed Clarence J. Robinson professors...

...Log Cabin Republicans, an organization of conservative gay men and women, supports law enforcement in prosecuting sex crimes against children to the full extent of the law...

...His argument is seen in the first paragraph: "They are concerts that have been plucked from the rest and set aside...

...I didn't write it but helped promote it...

...Collier's account of that search is distorted beyond recognition...

...The votes of Arab citizens suddenly weren't good enough...

...But in the cyber Lexis/Nexis age, some response has to be put on the record...

...Had we wanted to, we could have made offers to both Wilkins and Radosh...

...The elections reduced their number in the new Knesset to 52...

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...Emmett McAuliffe St...

...But Krauthammer doesn't mention that the Right's numbers dropped considerably also...

...This is simply untrue...

...Krauthammer's exposure of Friedman's selective morality was sorely needed...

...In my opinion, these clich?s misunderstand the artistic temperament...

...The unstated syllogism: Environmentalism is communism...

...Charge one: Our work consists of scaring the public and scoffs whenever legitimate scientists and environmental organizations raise responsible concerns about the safety of chemicals in our food or in the air...

...He has been consistent in this misguided approach since Likud achieved power in 1978...

...Benjamin Wittes Washington, DC Pedophilia, Not Chic Here I fear Mary Eberstadt's piece "Pedophilia Chic" (June 17) may leave some of your readers with the erroneous impression that the gay male community endorses sexual exploitation of adolescent males...

...Our symphony orchestras are essential community resources, and while they have a musical mission, their programs and policies do have social consequences...

...This is pure propaganda for dismantling environmental laws...

...Louis, MO Race and Music Jay Nordlinger's article "Race Notes" (May 20), which focuses in part on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's "Classically Black" series, is a model of muddled thinking...

...Charge two: Fenton is responsible for the ALAR apple "scare...

...But Mark Gauvreau Judge's assertion that in the 1980s Morrison's "music became insipid, and he seemed debilitated by his legendary stage fright and hostility to the press- attributes that make it difficult to win fans and create any kind of buzz" falsely characterizes that decade (Inarticulate Speech of the Heart and Sense of Wonder came out in the 1980s) and states an irrelevancy about Morrison's dependence on any of the later rock'n'roll trappings...

...The apple industry is thriving without the chemical...

...The "they" in question are concerts selected from various series for a sampler series called "Classically Black...

...My heart goes out to the Chemical Manufacturers' Association, which, we are told, is "harmed" when it has to play "catchup" and respond to calls for corporate responsibility...

...Both major parties, in fact, lost votes to Israel B'Aliya, the Third Way, and the religious parties, all of which would have joined a coalition led by either Labor or Likud...

...Krauthammer writes, "When Rabin won election in 1992 by the slimmest of margins and ruled with but a two-seat majority in the Knesset, one did not hear the claim that he lacked a mandate...

...Paul W. Simmons Log Cabin Republicans Houston, TX Hiring Ronald Radosh Peter Collier's article "The Suppression of Ronald Radosh" (June 10) repeats unquestioningly Radosh's assertion that he lost a title chair in American history at George Mason University to Roger Wilkins...

...Normally I wouldn't even respond to such one-sided propaganda...

...You will find no apologists for pedophilia here...

...The year we hired Wilkins we made seven offers and four accepted...

...As vice provost at George Mason in 1986-87, I directed the search that resulted in Wilkins's appointment...

...Too bad he riddles his article with overblown rhetoric that leaves several important factual misimpressions...

...As the saying goes, since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem the art of prophecy was given to fools...

...Unfortunately, the homosexual community's political leadership, which is dominated by radical leftists, has failed to denounce loudly the North American Man-Boy Love Association and other nefarious groups...

...Sydelle Levine Mount Vernon, NY Charles Krauthammer offers a number of valid insights into the reasons why Bibi Netanyahu won the recent Israeli election...

...Democracy once required only a majority, but when the Left won the 1992 elections, the standards changed and adjectives describing ethnicity became necessary...

...It seems that each time Friedman deals with political issues concerning the Likud party in Israel, he loses all logic and objectivity...

...Charge three: Our Stolen Future is a bad book...

...The premise of Labash's screed is that my work to publicize the concerns of environmental organizations consists of cleverly concocting alarmist lies that I then foist on naive and unsuspecting mainstream news organizations, which, not knowing the depths of my duplicity, admit me to their inner sanctums and then are stupid enough to publish or air "my stories," unchecked and unverified, and in so doing make life harder for chemical companies, timber barons, and other true guardians of the public interest...

...There is more than a little irony in Radosh's accusation against George Mason...

...The common refrain among the Israeli Right-many Likud Knesset members included- was that Rabin lacked a "Jewish majority" and that his government was therefore illegitimate...

...Correspondence Democracy in Israel Charles Krauthammer's article "Why Bibi Won" (June 17) should be a lesson to Thomas L. Friedman and his ilk, whose talent is viewing the world from a narrow vantage point, at best, and advancing a personal obsession, at worst...

...Literary and music reviewers often fall prey to the self-serving clich?s that there is something "new" or "better" about an artist's latest work or that the artist has "gotten out of a funk...

...But on this issue, as on many others, the leadership is removed from the constituency it purports to serve...

...Rabbi Joseph Melamed Carmichael, CA The article by Charles Krauthammer and the parody of Thomas L. Friedman were a welcome change from the arrogance and misinformation demonstrated by other members of the press...

...It's a controversial whistle-blowing work of reporting based on he work of over 400 scientists and many hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies that has been compared to Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring...

...Would that there were other voices to point out that the Israeli electorate has the right to choose...

...The attempt to describe Netanyahu and his party as the "moral equivalent of Gennadi Zyuganov" is not only malicious in tone but outrageously naive and tantamount to utter stupidity...

...He also doesn't mention that Labor outpolled the Likud-Tsomet joint list despite Netanyahu's win...

...Steven J. Diner Professor of History George Mason University Sunny Side of Morrison It was good to see an important musician like Van Morrison reviewed in your magazine ("Van Morrison's Hymnal," June 17...

...At the time, many on the left called it a "right-wing institution" because we made our first distinguished appointments in public choice economics, including James Buchanan, who subsequently won the Nobel Prize...

...We planned to fill between 18 and 20 Robinson professorships over several years, and we made as many appointments in a given year as there were candidates whom we wanted...

...While the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does not pretend that it can undo the effect of generations of segregation and discrimination, we do make an effort to bring people together...

...First, George Mason never advertised or held a search for an endowed professorship in American history...

...These chairs are for broad-ranging scholars and intellectuals who deal with large and important problems of interest to people in multiple disciplines...

...Krauthammer also asserts: "In the old Knesset, those parties that supported the peace process (the Labor-Meretz coalition plus the Arab parties) had 61 seats...

...John Gidwitz Executive Director Baltimore Symphony Orchestra A Scary Marxist I'm Not Matt Labash's piece "Scaremonger" (April 29) was a trash job on our public relations firm, Fenton Communications...

...Krauthammer wants it to be the case that Labor's path was soundly rejected, but the conventional wisdom that Bibi won a squeaker is actually correct...

...The other reason for Friedman's absence of moral judgment may be his personal conviction that he has seen the light in his travels between Beirut and Jerusalem and that therefore we, the readers, should regard him as the new seer of the Middle East...

...Further, Wilkins and Radosh never competed for the same position...

...They have been-in a word-ghettoized...

...For a sizable majority of gay men, sexual relations with children are viewed as morally appalling, and the adult practitioners of it are seen as pathological deviants...

...The article's whole thesis is funny: "Fenton serves as an exemplar of the notion that with the failure of communism, environmental policy is now the Armageddon of the hard left...