Letters
Letters In Hitler's Mind Charles Peters’s December ‘‘Tilting at Windmills” item about Adolf Hider’s declaration of war against the US. on December 11,1941, perked my interest. Some 18 years...
...Anyone familiar with her published research would know this...
...For a teacher, disciplinary concerns are more basic...
...Mary Koss is exaggerating the rape rate when she reports her research findings that slightly over one in four college women has been the victim of rape or attempted rape...
...he would have us believe that Koss used some eccentric definition of rape in order to inflate the numbers...
...While I agree that teacher unions in many states wield considerable clout to enhance their members’ pocketbooks and that firing an incompetent teacher is a Byzantine process, I disagree with his basic assertion that weakening unions’ power in state legislatures is a key step toward malung schools better...
...He wants to teach his lesson and, to that end, needs the freedom to develop a disciplinary style with which he is comfortable...
...Koss did no such dung...
...Yet it seems clear that Hodges never talked to Koss or read her research...
...CLEM COLUCCI via e-mail Unwilling Accomplices In your November 1996 issue, you marred an otherwise excellent article on privacy rights, or lack of same, when you misstated the role of the pharmacist in information transfer...
...And as I recall from the book, Franklin Roosevelt’s statement on December 8th that he blamed Germany just as much as Japan for the attack on Pearl Harbor provided the fuel that lit Hider’s fire...
...The reason so many victims did not think they had been raped is obvious-many people do not understand what constitutes rape...
...So what, exac+, was wrong with Bryant Gumbel’s asking Mr...
...The regressive nature of the FICA and Medicare taxes is never discussed by politicians, and seldom by the media...
...The type of immoral information sharing you describe does occur, but the guilty party is the drugstore chain or insurance company, not the individual pharmacist...
...As Bosnia has shown, civil war can be the result if one draws the line too tight...
...A recent article in The Washington Times illustrates one problem with Chinni’s suggestion for replacing tenure protection with teaching contracts that are renewable at the discretion of a principal or school superintendent...
...While the legal definition of rape Koss used (the state of Ohio’s) includes the purposeful use of intoxicants to prevent resistance to sexual advances, Koss’s question is worded so ambiguously that a woman who had consensual sex while intoxicated but later regretted it could easilyand accurately-answer yes...
...It is incumbent upon you to tell your readers that pharmacists are almost certainly not to blame for information sharing...
...ANDY WEBB San Diego, CA Mono vs...
...It’s distressing to see The Monthly turned into a transmission belt for right-wing propaganda, even if onky for a single article...
...While monoculturalism may in many ways be an ideal, the major problem is whose culture is going to be the benchmark, and to what extent the cultural losers are going to have to surrender in order to adapt to the monocultural idea...
...That NED receives widespread support across the political spectrum is testimony to its effectiveness...
...Hitler did thmk of the US...
...I’m one of those people whose FICA and Medicare taxes are almost more than my income tax...
...1997) alleges that Dr...
...JAMES H. O’ROURKE Gaithersburg, MD...
...In this capacity, they fear that too many suspensions will brand their school a problem and one not worth attending...
...And while the complexities of human nature are such that a certain number of women might have continued sexual relations with a man who had raped them, 42 percent is a little hard to believe...
...But his prayers, however heartfelt, seem to have been as effective as his presidency...
...government programs to promote democracy, concluded there was no significant overlap between programs funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and those funded by official agencies, should come as no surprise to anyone familiar’ with NED’S record of accomplishment...
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...The point I made was that Koss’s definitions were misleading, and if you look at her study, that is obviously the case...
...One reason I have always valued The Washington Monthly is that Charles Peters insists its writers be informed on a subject before writing about it...
...1997) The Monthly has often criticized mainstream journalism for its treatment of religion, which is in fact dreadful...
...Letters In Hitler's Mind Charles Peters’s December ‘‘Tilting at Windmills” item about Adolf Hider’s declaration of war against the US...
...Last March, following a separate review of programs funded by his agency and NED, AID Administrator Brian Atwood reported to the House Committee on International Relations: ‘‘We found that USAID and NED do not duplicate, but rather complement each other’s efforts...
...While at times he expressed an awareness that the US...
...EDWARD S. GOLDSTEIN Chevy Chase, MD A Strange Silence “Thank you” to Charlie Peters for his comments on the strange silence among politicians about the inequity of the Social Security tax...
...For example, respondents were defined as victims of rape if they answered yes to the following: “Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn’t want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs...
...The pharmacist is boxedin because the laws in most states, not to mention federal controlled-substance laws and good professional practice, require collection of demographic information-as do the filing of any insurance claims, especially the online varieties that now dominate the industry...
...Tidbits & Outrages,” JanJFeb...
...Another of Koss’s questions-ascertaining attempted rape-is worded with similar ambiguity...
...she defined situations as rapes or attempted rapes based solely on the legal definition of rape...
...The ‘piece notes that, while teachers are often concerned with a few unruly kids interrupting the lesson, principals often have loftier, conflicting, concerns...
...Multi While I enjoyed overall Ralph Peters’s review of All That We Can Be, he nevertheless makes a serious mistake when he assumes that multiculturalism is what led to Sarajevo...
...Based on my recollection of the book, your analysis is sound...
...It doesn’t help matters when you make fun of the rare journalist who respects another’s religious convictions enough to ask serious, challenging questions...
...Subsequently the GAO wrote to the Committee that its concerns about potential overlap and duplication had been allayed, and there was no need to proceed any further on the matter...
...Lest we forget, it was the Serbian desire to transform multiethnic Bosnia into a monocultural state that led to the bloody civil war there...
...And the basic argument of the draft report-that NED duplicates what AID does-was without foundation...
...Some 18 years ago I was pondering the same question in my German History class at Colorado College...
...JOHN BRADEMAS, CHAIRMAN NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY New York, New York The Freedom to Teach As one who just completed 9 weeks student teaching at a Maryland public high school, I read with considerable interest Dante Chinni’s “Teachers’ Pets” (JanJFeb...
...Most pharmacists are, at best, unwilling and unwitting partners in the type of fraud and theft you describe...
...The Pulpit Jimmy Carter prayed a lot as president and never tires of telling us so...
...Hodges makes much of the fact that 73 percent of the rape victims in Koss’s study did not think they had been raped...
...In the same report, he outlined a series of steps that AID and NED have taken together to avoid duplication...
...The book asserts that the aide, although a sycophant hke the rest of Hitler’s staff, did try to explain America’s indusmal potential to the Chancellor...
...as a “mongrel nation...
...MARK WYLIE Los Angeles, CA Glenn Hodges responds: Labeling anyone who finds fault with Koss’s study a dupe of right-wing propaganda is disingenuous at best...
...But this conclusion obviously came as a disappointment to David Corn (“Muzzling a Watchdog: JanJFeb...
...As part of their job, principals are expected to be public relations spokesmen for the community...
...Compton’s view was that Hitler suffered from cognitive dissonance in his evaluation of the US...
...For example, many people wrongly think that a rape does not occur unless the rapist uses violence...
...My professor guided me to The S w m h and the &gk, an excellent work by James V; Compton...
...As with all survey studies, the actual questions used make all the difference...
...could be a formidable foe, he was more susceptible to the inner demons that told him a mixed-race nation, with a significant Jewish influence, could be easily defeated...
...We need more spotlights like those The Washington Monthly and similar magazines have thrown on this issue...
...1993, who sought to spin an elaborate tale in which politically powerful forces conspired to nullify the GAO’s brave attempts to put an end to NED5 $30 million democracy-building effort...
...MICHAEL WEBB via e-mail Not Identical Twins That the General Accounting Ofice, after an exhaustive study of US...
...STUART SHEFFER Venice, CA The “Defining” Battle Glenn Hodges (“When Good Guys Lie,” JanJFeb...
...But I would hate to think that my contract might not be renewed because, compared to other teachers, I sent too many children to the principal’s office...
...Given the poor quality of these questions, it’s no wonder that 42 percent of the women Koss labeled as rape victims subsequently had further sexual relations with the same men who had allegedly raped them...
...Carter, ‘What do you think, if anything, that says about the power of prayer...
...The Press vs...
...Apparently his impressions were influenced by “western” movies about the Indian wars and by an army aide who had lived in the US...
Vol. 29 • March 1997 • No. 3
