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...Letters No merci The article "Gays in Arms," [Eric Konigsberg, November] an interesting and well-documented piece, contains one startling paragraph, particularly since it adds nothing to the argument, and tries to strike a humorous note about the "respectable showings" of various armies in the past which do not discriminate against homosexuals today...
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...LAWRENCE F. MANSFIELD Indian Lake Estates, Florida Delaneyied reaction I must protest the outrageous, even libelous distortion and innuendo against my friend and book subject, Martin Delaney, as published in John Crewdson's response to my letter [December Letters...
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...It's too bad that Boo did not take the time to find out and report that the Rochester community has learned a lot from the successes as well as the failures of our reform efforts, and we are forging ahead to make real educational reform a reality that America can indeed look upon as a model...
...So I fear that in an effort to be funny at the expense of the French army, Konigsberg has unwittingly betrayed his own ignorance of the historical facts...
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...The informed reader is bound to wonder what Konigsberg was referring to when he wrote that "the last time France made a respectable showing, Toulouse-Lautrec was still alive...
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...As for Crewdson's charge that Delaney misappropriated $150,000 in computer supplies donated by Burroughs Wellcome: Steve Wilson, who has taken Delaney's former title, told me "To say the money was used inappropriately was incorrect...
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...When the Great War broke out in 1914, Toulouse-Lautrec had been dead for 13 years and by 1918 more than a million and a half French soldiers had given their lives "in making a respectable showing...
...Economics" [November] in one brief paragraph mangle several critical facts about the University of Maine system...
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...In short, in an attempt at humor, Konigsberg has distorted the historical facts—there is nothing funny about that—and weakened his case by trying to prove too much...
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...I have to assume the writer was not thinking of the war of 1870—the painter was in fact "still alive," being six years old at the time...
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...Noncognizant Congress Katie Hickox's article, "No Truth, No Consequences" [November] is fine as far as it goes, but the lack of sworn testimony is not the major problem with congressional hearings and investigations...
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...And, on May 18, 1992, pursuant to still another state law, the Board voted to implement a 5 percent cut for the same employees for the fiscal year that began July 1,1992...
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...JUSTINE STRAND, PA Austin, Texas Reform school controversial While Katherine Boo's article ["Reform School Confidential," October] lays out some painful truths, it was not balanced and does not acknowledge any of the successful things that have happened in Rochester's reform efforts...
...Reality check-up "Share the Health" [Stephanie Mencimer, October] reflects an unfortunate misunderstanding of the role of physician assistants on the health care team...
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...Studies, borne out of practice, have shown that money is not a motivator for sustained increased performance, so it should not have been a surprise when nothing changed...
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...they counted their dead by the thousands as they fought, under General Eisenhower's command, to liberate France and Europe from Nazi oppression (not to mention their participation in World War I...
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