LETTERS

...Of course...

...The Second Circuit Court of Appeals came to the entirely reasonable conclusion that the Fifth Amendment prohibits the long-term jailing of people who are not convicted of a crime...

...Institutions without tenure exhibit all these problems...

...All that Melendez says is that until you have been proven guilty, the government may not keep you in jail for an extended time solely on the grounds that the government thinks you may commit crimes in the future...

...Angry with the men, I gather...

...We pay a price for every amendment...

...For an average state, a press secretary has a stable of a couple of dozen home-state reporters based in Washington...

...Battery in your tape recorder dead...

...Can you tell me when and who chose Mr...

...Been through any of these scenarios...

...Even if I were or ever had been, I wouldn't admit it here and you still won't tell, will you, huh...

...Despite these errors, there is truth in Helfand's parade of horribles concerning tenure...

...How could you publish an article about Mayor Marion Barry Jr...

...Condominium and co-operative conversions often do not reduce the stock of moderately priced housing...

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...My theory is the following: Adolph Hitler, probably exasperated with the United States for supplying Britain and Russia through the Lend-Lease program in the Atlantic, must have made a secret pact with Tajo that if Japan attacked the U.S...

...Hitler's plan to conquer the U.S...

...Every good press secretary spends a heavy fraction of his time defending the media, convincing his boss to submit to an OOPS...

...Peters criticized a case which struck down pretrial detention of some members of the terrorist group, Los Macheteros ["Tilting at Windmills," June...

...The recently completed Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center is breathing new life into the Shaw area in Northwest and construction, as 7th Street, NW...

...and diverted its attention to the Pacific, he would declare war on the United States in return, thus diverting the U.S...

...But he'd better have a speech to throw away or you're .dead meat...

...There are, undeniably, flaws in the system, but Blake Fleetwood's and Kurt Eichenwald's highly selective presentation seriously distorts the impact and extent of rent regulations on the city as a whole...

...Television format slides...

...Our judicial system, I was raised and taught to believe, assumes innocence until proven guilty by one's peers...

...LETTERS What have we...

...In divorce, women get overburdened with the sole responsibility of child care, and then we wonder why there is poverty among women and children...

...The broad support for rent control recorded by the polls must, therefore, include large numbers of people like me who do not now (and often never have) benefited directly from the law...

...Don't forget rewrite and staff critiques and then watching him throw it away on the way to the event and write his own talking points...

...To cite a few errors and omissions: "Manhattan" and "New York City" are not synony mous...

...If your boss is on a committee that's "news" that day, look for an exponential increase...

...Show me a senator who just got creamed in the local paper and -I'll show you a press secretary with a senator in his face screaming, "How could you let your friends in the press do this to me...

...Even those who would have been called "master" in another time and place have recognized these achievements and come to the aid of the city's desire for greater independence and full authority to determine its destiny...

...If the writer had done what should be done, good research and interviews with the parties named, he would have learned that none of the accusations regarding the mayor has ever led to more than- presumed guilt without the benefit of trial by a jury of his peers...

...In response to your final question about what Juan Williams and The Washington Monthly have done for Washington, we, respectively, wrote and published the article...

...ANNETTE SAMUELS Washington, D.C...

...Well, I'm not sure it's true, but I heard the other day . . Source...

...There is no Texas lottery...

...Samuels is press secretary to Mayor Barry...

...There is no evidence in the historical or contemporary record to back up this assumption...

...Technician...

...Helfand's second basic error is to assume that we can rely on "the kind eye of the courts" and litigation to take care of problems of academic freedom and due process on the nation's 3,000 campuses...

...The only people who will be turned conservative by that case were never liberals to begin with...

...Tenants in residence are protected from eviction and given the option of buying their apartments well below market prices...

...IVOR KRAFT Sacramento, California...

...Media Advocate...

...We'll give you a copy of our tape...

...At the moment, for example, everyone agrees that "market-rate" (i.e., new unregulated luxury) housing is in conspicuous oversupply...

...You neglected to mention that he was removed from office this past spring by the governor of North Dakota...

...Add in 30 or so dailies, 150 weeklies, and 250 broadcast outlets to deal with by mail or telephone...

...Helfand makes at least three major errors...

...Someone had to have the quiet fortitude to move us from under the yoke of the "master" who did not always have the city's best interest at heart...

...from concentrating entirely on defeating Japan...

...With that awesome achievement behind us, Marion Barry, with his sense of the value and importance of a "strengthened financial picture," "improved image of the city," a "summer jobs program" for all of our youth which gives them a solid grounding in the real world of work, and a "booming downtown," has taken the District of Columbia far-beyond what anyone ever expected in such a short period of time...

...Catalyst, as reported in The Washington Post, states some of the nation's largest companies are beginning to offer leaves for new fathers...

...was eventually discovered and involved Japan invading us on the West Coast, Germany from the east and Argentina—an Italian ally—and others from the south...

...The Bill of Rights doesn't come for free...

...but we pay the price of letting scum like the Nazis march through Skokie...

...I know we're in the middle of a campaign but have you heard why our opponent is really interested in young boys...

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...DAVID L. LEVY Washington, D.C...

...Helfand is dead wrong about that...

...In advocating term-contractual over tenure systems, Helfand falls into a third error...

...Peters inquired about the Second World War ["Tilting at Windmills," June] and stated that the "greatest mystery of that war (was) Hitler's decision to declare war against the United States in 1941...

...But his record of failure in the areas of education, neighborhood development, prison reform...

...GARY AUXIER Washington, D.C...

...He assumes that by abolishing tenure we will solve problems concerning stale and mediocre professors, poor teaching, overemphasis on grantsmanship, intergenerational conflict in the professoriate, and the like...

...The defense that Barry has not yet been convicted by a jury is another sign of how low the political debate has sunk in the city...

...In the same spirit of humor as "For Immediate Release" I felt compelled to pen the attached: If we're not staring into our word processors creating the big lie, what are we doing...

...Juan Williams replies: I'm glad that there are some revitilization projects being planned as Marion Barry finishes his eighth year as mayor...

...Ground was recently broken for a shopping complex on the H street corridor...

...Clearly not the voters...

...We spend time and energy watching to see if Barry will be caught while the opportunity to exercise compassionate black government goes to waste...

...Surprise...

...interview, explaining that his two-cents' worth wasn't in the lead because somebody else had a nickel idea...

...The government can't imprison you unless you're convicted of a crime...

...Male press secretaries have little night terrors about what the morgue people will think as they collect our personal _effects...

...To begin with, Helfand fails to see the key to collegial and personnel matters in academia is peer review, that the key to effective peer review is its stringency rather than its frequency, and that in human affairs there are traditional limits to stringency...

...You urge women to be angry about this...

...On the rare occasion when you're on the wrong track or have really screwed something up, we stand ready to discuss the matter in a calm, rational manner...

...Tipster...

...Peters mentioned Grand Forks County, North Dakota sheriff Gordy Taylor ["Tilting at Windmills," June] as in the running for the champion poor example of a law officer due to his three drunk-driving arrests since 1981...

...No wonder the public continues to lose faith in the media...

...The sensible solution is joint custody and mediation, especially as almost all children have two psychological parents, a father and a mother, and need good parental role models of both sexes...

...JOHN V. HIBBARD Cambridge, Massachusetts Divorce court Your June issue ["Tilting at Windmills"] mentions that only a handful of eligible men are taking advantage of parental leave from companies that offer it-12 out of 9,500 recently surveyed...

...And reasonable interest rates have brought many co-ops and condos within the reach of middle-income New Yorkers...

...Makeup Artist...

...I loved my eight years as a reporter, and I loved the next eight as a press secretary...

...On any given day when Congress is in session, the press secretary is fielding requests for a piece of the senator's time from half the Washingtonbased reporters and a dozen or so calling from home...

...Do you really want to talk to the legislative assistant, who has a bachelor's in legalese and a master's in obfuscation and who thinks a pithy quote is a citation from the U.S...

...JAMES ALLAIRE Alexandria, Minnesota Hitler's motives Mr...

...Lush lawman Mr...

...Media Adversary...

...To suggest that press secretaries spend most of their time hacking out press releases is about as accurate as saying reporters spend most of their time writing stories...

...The Hechinger Mall expansion in Northeast is moving forward...

...Backlighting bad...

...Levy is president of the National Council for Children's Rights Out of control I was dismayed to find The Washington Monthly, a stronghold of original thinking, retailing tired old arguments over rent control in New York["There's Nothing Liberal about Rent Control," June...

...On a tip, we ran a "Tidbit and Outrages" item in the June issue about a man who was the only 3-time winner of the Texas lottery...

...On the other hand, it has been said that "he that is without sin, let him cast the first stone!' What have you, The Washington Monthly or Mr...

...Avenue, S.E., and 14th and U Street, N.W...

...Guess who takes the heat when the "Indictment Sought" headline on Page One gets clarified the next day in the little "Oops" box back by the classified...

...We had an agreement, didn't we...

...The government can't interfere with the free exercise of religion...

...the case did not prohibit pretrial detention of a defendant who might intimidate or harm a witness or a juror...

...Yet Catalyst, a nonprofit organization focusing on career and family options, suggests a different target for our anger...

...He called that case one that turns liberals into conservatives...

...Germany and Japan were already allies and Japan's imperial aims in the Pacific environ depended on eliminating the U.S., while Hitler intended to conquer the entire earth, which meant the U.S...

...Need a gossipy little item for the Sunday column...

...These companies are merely reflecting an anti-father bias in domestic issues, whose real victims are the children...

...Want to wade through all 3,000 pages of the tax bill on deadline, or would you like to take a look at the Finance Committee staff's press summary...

...A sampling: Traffic Cop...

...but we pay the price of letting demons like Moon enslave the gullible...

...and M Street, S.E...

...In this case, United States v. Melendez-Carrion, the defendants had been held in jail for eight months, and would have been held for another year, while waiting for their trial to begin...

...Nearly all the anecdotes and statistics your article reports deal only with the overheated market of a few affluent, trendy neighborhoods, not with the experiences of the 80 percent of New Yorkers who live in the so-called "outer boroughs ." While "a simple majority of rental tenants live in rent-regulated apartments," these people do not make up a majority of the New York electorate, which includes tenants in non-regulated apartments, as well as owners of houses, co-ops, and condominiums...

...Sometimes they even take our advice...

...HARRY M. MATTHEWS, JR...

...Lightning Rod...

...We actually advise them on positions...

...So far, however, very few men .are braving conspicuous corporate disapproval to take them...

...The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law...

...We don't live in Shangri-la and we all know that the District of Columbia, like most urban areas, is no heaven...

...Flak for all reasons "For Immediate Release: Four Ways to Sell Your Senator," [Steven Waldman, June], was a charming, if inexpensive shot at a profession I called my own for a. number of years...

...Brooklyn, New York Paying the price Recently Mr...

...It is important to remember what the Melendez case did not do: it did not prohibit pretrial detention of defendants who might fail to appear at their trial (in fact, most of the Melendez defendants are still in jail, since there is a serious risk they might flee the country...

...But the most urgent problems besetting academia have little to do with tenure...

...Counselor...

...Speechwriter...

...transportation, and public housing is well documented...

...Were already pulling the drapes...

...Lots of us write most of them...

...And this is beginning to happen...

...Good flacks are very likely to carry a compact in their jacket pockets...

...Williams or The Washington Monthly as the judge and jury of the mayor...

...Rather than reduce prices, however, developers have simply increased advertising budgets...

...One of the basic premises of liberal constitutionalism is that being accused of a crime does not make one an outlaw and cause the loss of one's constitutional rights...

...A Dream Deferred," Juan Williams, July-August] that is solely based on the compilation of stories and opinions _ over the past eight years with no follow up to determine if those stories and opinions had merit...

...In addition, there has been no shirking of responsibility by the Barry administration when it comes to recognizing that more needs to be done regarding neighborhood revitalization and the completion of the Metro's green line...

...Too bad that once again shoddy journalism has reared its ugly head in an attempt to malign a mayor who has done more for the District of Columbia in seven and a half years than all of the commissioners who had been appointed by the presidents of the United States and approved by Congress in the previous 100 years...

...Some of the defendants were being kept in jail solely because a judge had determined they might pose a future danger to the community...

...The government can't censor political speech...

...Trust me, you really don't want to talk to the senator right now...

...There is still much to be done to assure an improved quality of the life for all of our citizens...

...Let's not forget the national and regional media...

...show, on the metro's green line is moving forward...

...The record of the free market in New York real estate does not fill one with confidence...

...But surely no good businessperson can deny that if an administration supports the development of downtown, then that same administration can ask for, and more than likely get, support in return for the development of the surrounding neighborhoods...

...We want nothing more for our boss than what Tom Brokaw gets, and nothing less...

...Then on June 10, ex-sheriff Taylor placed first in a six-way primary vote for his old office of sheriff...

...the case did not even bar short-term detention of defendants on grounds of their dangerousness...

...Juan Williams, done for the District of Columbia lately...

...DAVID B. KOPEL New York, New York The trouble with tenure David Helfand's attack against tenure ["I Turned Down Tenure," June]—on the weak side, for there are stronger arguments against tenure that Helfand cannot be expected to make in his anecdotal piece—is one of many we've been getting in recent years, now that tenure-track jobs in universities and colleges have become scarcer...

...Yeah, your worst fears made real...

...Any lawyer familiar with legal processes concerning academic retention, promotion, and tenure conflicts knows that the courts almost invariably defer to school officials, that only the most egregious violations will be countermanded, and that the whole thing is expensive, time-consuming, and usually futile...

...The price we pay is letting terrorists like Los Macheteros go free between their arrest and their trial...

...If the Soviets shoot down a commercial airliner over Peoria, it's no holds barred...

...Remember how your mother told you to wear clean underwear in case you were in an accident...

...Neighborhood revitalization offices have been opened on Georgia Avenue, NW., Good Hope Road, Martin Luther King Jr...

...All of us in the business know that tenure is a flawed contrivance in need of reform...

...Almost two-thirds of the 384 companies surveyed—about 41 percent of those with paternity leave policies in place—responded that `no time' was the appropriate amount of time for a man to leave work for the birth of a child...

...Walter Washington, the first elected mayor of this city, was clearly a man for his time...