CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence A PERILOUS PARTNERSHIP William Kristol and Robert Kagan are right: The demonstrations at the American embassy in Beijing show the world more than just China's continuing ability to...
...The only result of this war will be the destruction of the Republican party...
...I suspect this was the president's agenda all along...
...As for my "shoddy research, parochial writing, and irrelevant conclusions," if Cerrell can point to any specific examples, I invite him to do so...
...BRUCE THOMPSON SMYRNA, GA THE UNSPOKEN WAR I should have expected to find Sen.McCain's speech glowingly reviewed by The Scrapbook in a magazine which calls people like me "McGovern Republicans" ("McCain's Moment," May 17...
...The National Italian American Foundation resents the fact that The Weekly Standard targets the only Italian-American member of the Clinton cabinet for a highly personalized attack which is in no way relevant to the effective job he has done and continues to do...
...But neither he nor The Scrapbook will face up to the fact that this "war" has not been declared and that it is illegal under any reasonable constitutional definition...
...And as for the article being motivated by animus toward Italian Americans, the charge is so silly it doesn't merit a response...
...JOSEPH R. CERRELL PRESIDENT THE NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION WASHINGTON, DC MATTHEW REES RESPONDS: Joseph R. Cerrell says I made no attempt to "get both sides" of the story...
...He describes the novels as tracing the destinies of groups of diverse people, which The Red Wheel surely does, and tales as being just stories with beginnings, middles, and ends...
...Correspondence A PERILOUS PARTNERSHIP William Kristol and Robert Kagan are right: The demonstrations at the American embassy in Beijing show the world more than just China's continuing ability to organize demonstrations ("Call Off the Engagement," May 24...
...CHUCK MORALES SANTA MARGARITA, CA CUOMO AND THE VENDETTAS After reading Matthew Rees's exhaustive article about Andrew Cuomo, one believes it might be time to rename your publication "The Whining Standard" ("Andrew Cuomo's Vendetta," May 17...
...Andrew Cuomo has undertaken one of the most difficult assignments in the federal government as secretary of HUD and has been extraordinarily effective...
...In Tiananmen Square hundreds of people were killed because they were in favor of democracy, and yet there was not a whimper of protest...
...If there is a vendetta here, it appears to be against Andrew Cuomo...
...Vorotyntsev from August 1914...
...However, in his memoir The Oak and the Calf, Solzhenitsyn divides his fiction into "tales" and "novels...
...Just as China was not ready for democracy ten years ago, these demonstrations show that it is still not ready today...
...This article displays the ultimate in unbalanced journalism...
...Solzhenitsyn has also given part of himself into the role of the young artillery ensign, Sanya Lazhenitsyn...
...Part of Boerner's dissatisfaction with The Red Wheel cycle may stem from her definition of a novel as a "literary work with a beginning, middle, and end...
...As a result the article suffers from a fatal combination of shoddy research, parochial writing, and irrelevant conclusions...
...When I refused their offer of an off the record interview—I would not have been able to use any of the information they shared with me— they refused to speak with me, and did not return repeated phone calls...
...Senator McCain at least uses the word "war" to describe what we are doing in the Balkans...
...First, the character Georgi Vorotyntsev is not a new addition, but is the same Col...
...Nor does he "stand in for Solzhenitsyn," at least not exclusively...
...now a few people are killed by a democracy and they receive a government-organized demonstration...
...They were John Breaux and Bob Kerrey, not John Kerry...
...He seems to have missed the paragraph in my article in which I recount my negotiations with HUD officials over being granted an interview...
...No effort was made in the development of this story to get both sides...
...RED WHEEL TURNIN' I have some objections to Margaret Boerner's review of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's November 1916 ("Time's Arrow," May 17...
...JOHN WILLSON HILLSDALE, MI CORRECTION In Robert M. Goldberg's "Hijacking Medicine" (May 31), it was reported that two Democrats broke ranks with the White House over Medicare reform...
...Boerner needn't give up on Solzhenitsyn's cycle—November 1916 is the middle, transitional installment, and so must be somewhat open-ended...
...Our rule of law continues to erode even if people who help the process call themselves "conservatives...
Vol. 4 • June 1999 • No. 36
