Correspondence
Correspondence JFK DOPPELGÄNGERS PETER SCHWEIZER'S "The Cuban Missile Crisis, Reconsidered" (Oct. 21) was most welcome. It's good to know that liberal revisionism isn't the only game in town where...
...One other small point: Frank Keating was rewarded with the loss of his Senate seat—to Robert F. Kennedy...
...The briefer was actually an intelligence officer from the Defense Intelligence Agency, John T. Hughes, who was also my father...
...In my 14 years at Wellesley, I have seen Oprah Winfrey celebrated as a woman of intellectual power, Hillary Clinton celebrated as a role model for young women, and, during the recent filming of Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts celebrated as an icon of beauty with the power to turn the campus agog...
...As a visiting professor at Brandeis University last year, I discovered, much to my dismay, that many of the students in one of my classes did not know who Heinrich Himmler was...
...STEVE WINEBERG Exeter, NH JULIA, OPRAH, AND HILLARY As a professor who was rather vocal in my critique of the intrusion of celebrity culture onto Wellesley's campus during the filming of Mona Lisa Smile, I must take issue with some of the characterizations of the criticisms put forward by my friend and colleague Jonathan B. Imber in his article "Julia Does Welles-ley: Hollywood Meets Higher Education" (Oct...
...However, in support of Schweizer's factual report, I believe two other points should be made...
...The main problem with his suggestion is that, far from being an efficient market system, our civil justice system is a large, fragmented collection of inefficient government bureaucracies...
...As Frank Wolf put it, this is "the perfect compassionate conservative issue...
...21) takes all of three-quarters of a page to explore the nuances of his idea that "America should use the magic of the marketplace to keep al Qaeda operatives off her shore...
...There, they were just as quickly waved off unacknowledged...
...But the whole lemminglike attraction to the event, led, by the way, by many members of the faculty, caused me to wonder whether this is, indeed, the case...
...speaking for myself, I simply wished to raise some criticisms in order to challenge the idea that being the object of a 1950s Hollywood fantasy or being in the presence of Julia Roberts are unquestionably good things...
...To be sure, there was a sanctimonious ring about some of the criticisms, but the sanctimony was a result of the concern among some of us about the increasing intrusion of celebrity culture into institutions of higher education...
...How would schools share responsibility with other institutions in students' lives...
...Who would be entitled to sue the schools...
...Stow, OH THE CAPTION accompanying the photo of a Soviet missile base in Peter Schweizer's "The Cuban Missile Crisis, Reconsidered" mistakenly identifies the briefer in the photograph as John F. Kennedy...
...These reports were coming in almost daily, and they were immediately passed on to the Kennedy White House...
...Perhaps Professor Imber is correct in assuming that our students have the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy...
...The slide shown in the Schweizer article photo was taken from reconnaissance imagery collected during the U-2 mission flown on October 14, 1962, that uncovered the Soviet deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles to Cuba...
...Even then, the president hedged in his implementation of the quarantine...
...The briefing documented the Soviet buildup of offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba and their subsequent dismantlement and withdrawal...
...Schools would have to buy insurance to protect against this new liability, and the insurance companies would then investigate the potential student-immigrants...
...Lehrer should be careful, however, about the issue of "accountability" when it comes to prison staff...
...And this from the best and the brightest...
...To utilize the market, schools will need to be held civilly liable for terrorist acts committed by their students...
...For example: Could schools be held liable without fault...
...But dealing with all those questions is unnecessary—Professor Miller's argument fails on its own narrow grounds, because his market solution would not actually "utilize the market" by any stretch of the imagination...
...JAMES D. MILLER'S "Let Lawyers Help Fight Terror" (Oct...
...It's good to know that liberal revisionism isn't the only game in town where JFK is concerned...
...If prison guards are tacitly allowing rapes to continue, it may be a result of dangerously scarce staffing and poor conditions (this from a conservative Republican...
...He wanted to know in advance that the Soviets would turn their ships around...
...The man is surely a legend in his own mind...
...He was then a 34-year-old U-2 photo interpreter who had briefed the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense, and JFK throughout the crisis...
...MATTHEW CLAVEL New York, NY BYRDS OF A FEATHER THANK YOU for a wonderfully funny parody of the senate's senior windbag and sole surviving Klansman, Robert Byrd (Oct...
...The U-2 picture opened not only the eyes of the American public, but those of President Kennedy as well...
...Our tort law system is not capable of properly pricing the risk that a school's immigrant students would commit terrorist acts...
...skeptical readers who hesitate to feel any sympathy for prison rape victims should remember that while one might be sentenced to ten years of prison time, one is never sentenced to "ten years of being ferociously beaten and raped by other offenders while guards look the other way...
...Only with the assurance provided by Scali was the quarantine put into effect...
...JOHN W MATTHEWS Chapel Hill, NC...
...What about other crimes...
...We teachers have much work to do, and the celebrity culture doesn't always help us in our task...
...I hope to read more about criminal justice issues in the future from The Weekly Standard...
...While this information was available to the public at the time, it has since been all but lost as liberal historians and movie makers have simply omitted it from their accounts of the matter...
...Would they also be liable for terrorist acts committed by their non-immigrant students...
...The photograph was taken February 6, 1963, several months after the crisis had eased, during a nationally televised briefing...
...I was reminded of the story of the young politician who asked Byrd's advice on public speaking...
...I even recently read about an inmate who was allegedly raped repeatedly and contracted HIV from these attacks...
...MICHAEL J. HUGHES Reston, VA MARKET FOR TERROR...
...He enlisted John Scali, an ABC News reporter, as an intermediary with Khrushchev...
...You'll start to lose your audience if you go much past seven hours...
...And over the years at Wellesley, I've discovered that many of my students don't know what the "gulag" was...
...Keep it short," Byrd said...
...Most of us did not feel at all, as Professor Imber characterizes it, that the campus was being "ravished...
...so, call me old-fashioned, but I do wish that those kinds of things were as well known among students as Julia Roberts...
...government had monitored Soviet military activity in Cuba...
...THOMAS CUSHMAN Professor of Sociology Wellesley College Wellesley, MA COMPASSIONATE CONS I'D LIKE TO THANK AND CONGRATULATE Eli Lehrer for bringing up one of the country's most difficult topics in "Crime After Punishment," prison rape (Oct...
...For weeks before the U-2 photo, Senator Frank Keating of New York had been receiving from his Cuban contacts hard information on Soviet construction of missile sites in Cuba...
...It therefore follows that insurance premiums, which would have to reflect the risks of adverse civil judgments, could not properly price the risk that students would commit terrorist acts...
...JACK LEHNER JR...
...The secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, introduced the briefing, and my father used slides made from aerial surveillance photographs to explain how the U.S...
...Correctional officers' unions have far more justifiable concerns than the National Education Association or the Teamsters: A prison guard, after all, works with the constant risk of having his throat cut by a sharpened toothbrush...
...Of course, there are many other objections to Miller's idea...
Vol. 8 • November 2002 • No. 8
