LETTERS
LETTERS Government witness Charles Peters may be right [“Tilting At Windmills,” October] that the deep skepticism of many in this community regarding the prosecution of minority officials made...
...All who have seen him work will tell you that Mr...
...LETTERS Government witness Charles Peters may be right [“Tilting At Windmills,” October] that the deep skepticism of many in this community regarding the prosecution of minority officials made a hung jury a near certainty in the Marion Barry trial, regardless of the evidence...
...America’s beer drinkers already pay more than their fair share in taxes with every six-pack they buy-about 15 percent of the retail price of beer is federal, state, and local consumption taxes...
...RICHARD D. MILLER Arlington, Virginia Mr...
...Those who serve in our profession need to be adept at everything from ensuring that students learn to read to making sure they receive love and attention they may not find at home...
...If a suggestion is not so indicated on the envelope, how do they do it...
...And the large amounts of money and employee effort we expend annually to encourage responsible drinking demonstrate our commitment to the fight against alcohol abuse...
...I must take exception, h’owever, to Mr...
...Their courtroom finesse allowed them to present to the jury a witness’s remarkable account of being raped by Mr...
...Will wonders never cease...
...The story described the “service credits” system, by which a volunteer is in essence repaid for his hours of service by other volunteers when he himself is in need...
...It just doesn’t make any sense to, on one hand, say you are protecting working men and women by making the tax system more progressive but then turn around and quadruple the beer excise tax...
...Extra credits Last May, the Monthly published a story called “Beyond Money: Replacing the Gold Standard with the Golden Rule,” by two contributing editors, Jonathan Rowe and Steven Waldman...
...Barry...
...It’s hard to imagine a more regressive tax...
...Martin, currently special counsel to the State Department, was a federal prosecutor for 14 years...
...Issues covered in depth during our convention included: curriculum, instruction, evaluation, getting and keeping quality teachers and administrators, helping at-risk youth become successful in school and in life, how to deal with gangs and violence, early childhood education and child care, how to increase student achievement, and many, many others...
...We agree with the Economic Policy Institute’s recent report concluding that excise taxes are “the most regressive federal taxes...
...Stain,” September] that ‘‘ . . . most companies return many suggestions unopened, to forestall litigation over royalty claims...
...This performance comes as no surprise...
...In September, Reader’s Digest ran a condensed version of the story, and since then we’ve been bombarded by letters requesting reprints of the original story and whatever other information on service credits we may have...
...20036...
...These are among the most challenging of all jury trials...
...I would appreciate your help...
...They carefully structured the case to allow the full panoply of the mayor’s sad conduct to be admitted into evidence: the portrait that resulted was so devastating that the defense was forced to concede the mayor’s drug use...
...I think his idea is fantastic...
...Corporate Karnaks Please ask Jonathan Rowe to explain his statement [“America’s Inc...
...Able as R. Kenneth Mundy is-and he is formidableprosecutor Richard W. Roberts and his co-counsel, Judith E. Retchin, put forward the government’s case with dramatic and sure mastery...
...CINDY KUHN Dubois, Pennsylvania For reprints of the original story, write The Washington Monthly...
...He should have perceived that the skill and acumen of the prosecutors were pivotal in bringing about this result...
...But let’s not be fooled...
...They stymied the mayor’s defense by uncovering, and persuading the court to accept, evidence that his lead-off witness was a drug-user...
...Roberts cut his teeth successfully prosecuting police brutality and slavery cases when he served with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in the late seventies...
...PEGGY SYMMS Jasper, Texas I was intrigued by the article and would like to learn how to start a program like this in my community...
...Please send me Mr...
...Moreover, the average state and local beer tax rate has nearly tripled during the past 40 years...
...Cahn’s address or forward this letter to him...
...For further information about starting a service credits program in your own community, send one dollar and a self-addressed, stamped business envelope to: Essential Information...
...School administration is the hottest kitchen in the world...
...Anheuser-Busch brews a product that, consumed responsibly, is consistent with a healthy lifestyle...
...They’re accustomed to taking heat, but your kind of impudent bashing is a downer for those who are so dedicated to serving others...
...RALPH DRURY MARTIN Washington, D.C...
...I would like to start a program in our church, not just for myself, but for many others that need help too...
...Box 19405...
...The review fails to point out some fairly significant features of the convention program, such as: Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, speaking on the transition of students into the workforce...
...If you could, I would like you to send me the address of the founder of this movement...
...Duncan Graham, head of Great Britain’s National Curriculum Council...
...The leader’s name is Edgar Cahn, a professor of the District of Columbia School of Law...
...Lambright is vice-president and group executive of Anheuser-Busch...
...This happens, of course, but here it did not...
...and Georgetown University Law Professor Eleanor Holmes Norton, speaking about conditions affecting our nation’s children...
...After working at Covington & Burling, one of Washington’s premier law firms, he went on to earn a distinguished reputation as an assistant United States attorney in the southern district of New York...
...GRANT HARRISON Alexandria, Virginia Conventional ideas Your “review” of the annual American Association of School Administrators Convention [“Not-So-Super Superintendents,” Susan Ohanian, September] presents a classic case of a person who has an ax to grind...
...Washington, D.C...
...Charles Garfield, author of Peak Performers, discussing productivity...
...Peters’s statement that the trial turned out as it did because prosecutors “of average ability” were outclassed by eminent defense counsel...
...STEPHEN K. LAMBRIGHT St...
...There’s many in Jasper and Newton, Texas that would benefit from this type of program...
...Their rewards come from knowing that because of what they do, children are getting a good education that will prepare them to live productive and fulfilling lives...
...Peters was surprised that the jury was able to unanimously find the mayor guilty on even one count...
...Roberts is a superb trial lawyer, seasoned and intelligent, who combines a complete command of his case with a flair for communicating with a jury...
...Miller is the executive director of the American Associations of School Administrators...
...Because of prevailing attitudes in the city, Mr...
...Louis, Missouri Mr...
...Few other consumer goods are taxed that heavily...
...A couple of the letters follow: I would like to have more information on this credit program and write them because my mother had a second stroke August 1. I’m having a time finding help...
...And I know of others who need help also...
...I’m a younger person in my community, and I know a lot of elderly people who would regain self-dignity and would love to be a part of an organization such as this...
...Most beer is bought by people with family incomes under $35,000...
...I think he would be pleased to know that he could make a difference in so many lives, even as far away as Pennsylvania...
...Beer Blast The Monthly plan [“How to Fix the Budget Without Hurting the Country,” Nathan Emerson and Afshin Molavi, September] seems constructed largely of wishful thinking, sort of like the economist who fell into a well and when asked how he would get out responded, “First, assume a ladder...
...The hikes in beer taxes considered by budget negotiators were aimed at funding the S&L bailout and bringing down the deficit-not at reducing alcohol abuse...
...I refer to Susan Ohanian’s work as a review, since it could never qualify journalistically as a legitimate article...
Vol. 22 • December 1990 • No. 11
