Correspondence
Correspondence QUESTIONING KERRY WILLIAM KRISTOL presents four excellent questions for John Kerry ("Four Questions for Kerry," August 2). But i would also like to see the Massachusetts senator...
...When I was a kid growing up in the Bay State, I didn't know what a Yankee was apart from the maker of bean soup...
...It was reported that the Kerrys tried chili and chocolate Frosties, while the Edwardses had burgers...
...DAVID CRUTHERS Groton Long Point, CT NO PLACE FOR PLAYBOY I WAS APPALLED as I read Brian Murray's review of Hef's Little Black Book ("Bare Nekkid Ladies," August 2...
...Is a book by and about the man who brought soft-core pornography to mainstream America really worthy of such lengthy treatment in your magazine...
...It wasn't easy to be loyal amidst that sea of strident opposition...
...Put aside the semantics of "civil unions" versus "marriage" for a moment...
...A few days after the Democratic convention, where John Edwards spoke of "two Americas," Kerry and Edwards ate lunch with their wives—and Ben Affleck—at a Wendy's restaurant in Newburgh, New York...
...That is the true issue at stake here...
...Does Kerry also consider this a presidential obligation...
...to be served back on the bus: shrimp vindaloo, grilled diver sea scallops, [prosciutto-wrapped stuffed chicken], etc...
...I felt that "coming out" as a Red Sox fan might be unwise...
...I'm not sure whether Ben had the shrimp and Teresa the scallops, but, either way, it turns out John Edwards is right: there are two Americas—one America where folks eat at Wendy's, another America where the elite pass an amusing half-hour slumming among the folks at Wendy's and then chow down on the Newburgh Yacht Club's specials of the day...
...I doubt it...
...But then I went to school in New York and saw pinstripes everywhere...
...In our ultra-partisan climate, the culture wars feature all the red-hot intensity of a Yankees-Red Sox series...
...ROSANNA SHENK Plain City, OH LOYAL BAY STATERS AS A TRANSPLANTED MASSACHUSETTS native and a die-hard sports fan, I enjoyed Christopher Caldwell's "The Boston Diaspora" (August 2...
...I have always felt very comfortable letting my children read The Weekly Standard before I did, knowing that the content was generally safe...
...President Bush has emphatically asserted his right as commander in chief to defend the American people from terrorists through unilateral action...
...More disturbing than your decision to review Hefner's book were the pictures that you included with it...
...The more important question that needs to be asked of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and the entire Republican establishment is whether they believe gay couples should have the same legal rights as heterosexual couples...
...These days, coming out on foreign soil can be similarly daunting in the realm of politics...
...But i would also like to see the Massachusetts senator address this question: If he were president, would he allow 'Old Europe," Russia, and a variety of Third World countries on the U.N...
...indeed, Bush maintains that he has an obligation to do so...
...And the quote attributed to Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione was over the edge...
...There, it turned out, "the campaign advance team had ordered 19 five-star lunches from the Newburgh Yacht Club for Kerry, Edwards, Affleck and co...
...JASON SCORSE Santa Cruz, CA THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT NOEMIE EMERY'S FINE ARTICLE "John Kerry Is Different from You and Me" (August 2) is made even more relevant by Kerry's recent trip to Wendy's...
...I once tried in vain to be both a Boston Red Sox fan and New York Yankees fan...
...Steyn added that, after stopping at Wendy's, Kerry and Edwards boarded their bus...
...It amazes me that a magazine that supposedly champions "conservative" causes has latched onto the issue of denying gays the right to marry...
...Does the GOP believe in equal rights under the law, or not...
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...After "Bare Nekkid Ladies," I need to rethink that...
...ABE NOVICK Baltimore, MD THE WEEKLY STANDARD welcomes letters to the editor...
...It asked: "If Kerry were president, would marriage be redefined...
...The Yankees were popular and I was in enemy territory...
...BILL STRONG Elk Grove, CA I THOUGHT THE QUESTIONS laid out in William Kristol's "Four Questions for Kerry" were reasonable—until I came to the fourth...
...Yes, John Kerry is different from the rest of us—very different...
...Or do his hyper-multilateralist instincts make him categorically opposed to the potential unilateralism implied by the Bush Doctrine...
...Indeed, I can't decide which is more intimidating—to come out as a Red Sox fan in Manhattan, or to come out as a Republican...
...Security Council to dictate how the United States fights the war on terror...
...Most reports ended there—but not Mark steyn's piece in the London Daily Telegraph...
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Vol. 9 • August 2004 • No. 46
