http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/europe/12diplo.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=substantially%20damaged%20russia's%20standing&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:47 AMSubject: Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough ChoicesTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: President Bush betrays only the dimmest grasp of events when he scolds "These actions have substantially damaged Russia's standing in the world". It is precisely because Putin feels that Russia's standing in the world was damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union in the last century that he feels the need for this war in Georgia. It is because the standing of the U.S. in the word has been damaged by president Bush's unilateral adventures of the last seven years that Putin feels free to act without regard for the world's opinion. Our country may not deserve better leadership than we have, but in these times we need it.Barry Levine1142 Brown Ave Lafayette, CA 94549
Friday, August 15, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough ChoicesTo
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/world/europe/12diplo.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=substantially%20damaged%20russia's%20standing&st=cse&oref=slogin
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:47 AMSubject: Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough ChoicesTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: President Bush betrays only the dimmest grasp of events when he scolds "These actions have substantially damaged Russia's standing in the world". It is precisely because Putin feels that Russia's standing in the world was damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union in the last century that he feels the need for this war in Georgia. It is because the standing of the U.S. in the word has been damaged by president Bush's unilateral adventures of the last seven years that Putin feels free to act without regard for the world's opinion. Our country may not deserve better leadership than we have, but in these times we need it.Barry Levine1142 Brown Ave Lafayette, CA 94549
- Hide quoted text ----------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:47 AMSubject: Russia Steps Up Its Push; West Faces Tough ChoicesTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: President Bush betrays only the dimmest grasp of events when he scolds "These actions have substantially damaged Russia's standing in the world". It is precisely because Putin feels that Russia's standing in the world was damaged by the breakup of the Soviet Union in the last century that he feels the need for this war in Georgia. It is because the standing of the U.S. in the word has been damaged by president Bush's unilateral adventures of the last seven years that Putin feels free to act without regard for the world's opinion. Our country may not deserve better leadership than we have, but in these times we need it.Barry Levine1142 Brown Ave Lafayette, CA 94549
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Where's the Landslide?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/opinion/05brooks.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=david-brooks&st=cse&oref=slogin
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:37 AMSubject: Where's the Landslide?To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: As mr. Brooks observes "This should be a Democratic wipeout". Withtwo unpopular wars sustained only by stop-loss orders, with the dollardebased, a shrinking job-market and growing numbers of Americanslosing their homes, this presidential contest should be an electionthat no Republican can win. So what is the intangible element on theother side? It's hard to count the closet bigots who will never votefor a black man. They have learned to encode this in ways that won'tget them in trouble, but they continue to base the important decisionsabout our nation's direction on racist beliefs from another century.Mr. Brooks feeds these people rationales for their votes that to masktheir racism, but he offers neither news nor analysis for this paper'sreaders.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:37 AMSubject: Where's the Landslide?To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: As mr. Brooks observes "This should be a Democratic wipeout". Withtwo unpopular wars sustained only by stop-loss orders, with the dollardebased, a shrinking job-market and growing numbers of Americanslosing their homes, this presidential contest should be an electionthat no Republican can win. So what is the intangible element on theother side? It's hard to count the closet bigots who will never votefor a black man. They have learned to encode this in ways that won'tget them in trouble, but they continue to base the important decisionsabout our nation's direction on racist beliefs from another century.Mr. Brooks feeds these people rationales for their votes that to masktheir racism, but he offers neither news nor analysis for this paper'sreaders.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
The XY Games
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/opinion/03boylan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=the%20XY%20games&st=cse&oref=slogin
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To the Editor: Dismissing the best efforts of the IOC to put men in the men'sevents and women in the women's events, professor Boylan challengesthe conclusion that athletes with one X and one Y chromosome--butinsensitive to testosterone--are men. She writes: "By any measure,though (except the measure of the Olympic test), they are women." Imarvel that this howler got past an editor. While we may rhapsodizeover the emotional, spiritual and intellectual dimensions of theOlympics, they remain physical contests, with tangible measures ofvictory, constrained by our too, too solid flesh. There are sports inwhich men and women can and should compete in the same events withoutany distinction. For the rest, the IOC tests of gender properly makephysical distinctions of physical characteristics.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:19 AMSubject: The XY GamesTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Dismissing the best efforts of the IOC to put men in the men'sevents and women in the women's events, professor Boylan challengesthe conclusion that athletes with one X and one Y chromosome--butinsensitive to testosterone--are men. She writes: "By any measure,though (except the measure of the Olympic test), they are women." Imarvel that this howler got past an editor. While we may rhapsodizeover the emotional, spiritual and intellectual dimensions of theOlympics, they remain physical contests, with tangible measures ofvictory, constrained by our too, too solid flesh. There are sports inwhich men and women can and should compete in the same events withoutany distinction. For the rest, the IOC tests of gender properly makephysical distinctions of physical characteristics.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Couch Potato to Mr. Mighty with Pills Alone
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/science/01muscle.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=couch%20potatoes&st=cse&oref=slogin
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To the Editor: It is exciting that researchers have succeeded in decouplingmuscle growth from exercise. One must wonder if they have likewisedecoupled muscle growth from the rest of the musculo-skeletal system.Will sedentary users of such a drug trade their couches for operatingtables when their beefed-up muscles rip their underdeveloped tendonsoff their atrophied bones?Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:31 PMSubject: Couch Potato to Mr. Mighty with Pills AloneTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: It is exciting that researchers have succeeded in decouplingmuscle growth from exercise. One must wonder if they have likewisedecoupled muscle growth from the rest of the musculo-skeletal system.Will sedentary users of such a drug trade their couches for operatingtables when their beefed-up muscles rip their underdeveloped tendonsoff their atrophied bones?Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Missing Dean Acheson
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/opinion/01brooks.html?scp=4&sq=david%20brooks&st=cse
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:16 AMSubject: Missing Dean AchesonTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Mr. Brooks asks why the U.S. can't exercise leadership in the worldtoday, and then erects a smokescreen to keep us from the answer. InSeptember of 2001, the world reacted in horror and solidarity to theattacks on the World Trade Center and the pentagon. People andgovernments around the world lined up to join a broad coalition underAmerican leadership to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda. A millionmen marched in Teheran, the governments around the world, includingthose of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan offered their aid. All that wasneeded was for the American president to step up. Instead, George W.Bush preferred to grab the extraordinary powers of a war-time leader.He called for "crusade", thereby instantly alienating our front-lineallies in this fight. Bold initiatives like the Marshall Plan aren't lacking becausepower has become spread among more nations. Bold initiatives arelacking because the U.S. lacks a leader.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:16 AMSubject: Missing Dean AchesonTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Mr. Brooks asks why the U.S. can't exercise leadership in the worldtoday, and then erects a smokescreen to keep us from the answer. InSeptember of 2001, the world reacted in horror and solidarity to theattacks on the World Trade Center and the pentagon. People andgovernments around the world lined up to join a broad coalition underAmerican leadership to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda. A millionmen marched in Teheran, the governments around the world, includingthose of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan offered their aid. All that wasneeded was for the American president to step up. Instead, George W.Bush preferred to grab the extraordinary powers of a war-time leader.He called for "crusade", thereby instantly alienating our front-lineallies in this fight. Bold initiatives like the Marshall Plan aren't lacking becausepower has become spread among more nations. Bold initiatives arelacking because the U.S. lacks a leader.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
Friday, August 1, 2008
Drilling in Afghanistan
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:56 AMSubject: Drilling in AfghanistanTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Mr. Friedman blithely treats all of the Muslim world as if it were a monolithic problem. He knows better. Our burning problem is not with the states of the Muslim world, but with the non-state actors who flourish in the failed states. While the Saudi monarch is organizing peace conferences to enhance inter-faith understanding and cooperation, international terrorist organizations are flourishing in Afghanistan and Lebanon. To lump all of these together as "one war" is dishonest and unhelpful. Six years ago, Iraq was a functioning state. Now it is a battleground for sectarian factions, held in check only by the U.S. occupying forces. If we are to prevail over the international terrorists, we should take care to provide fewer centers for their recruitment and training, rather than more.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:56 AMSubject: Drilling in AfghanistanTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Mr. Friedman blithely treats all of the Muslim world as if it were a monolithic problem. He knows better. Our burning problem is not with the states of the Muslim world, but with the non-state actors who flourish in the failed states. While the Saudi monarch is organizing peace conferences to enhance inter-faith understanding and cooperation, international terrorist organizations are flourishing in Afghanistan and Lebanon. To lump all of these together as "one war" is dishonest and unhelpful. Six years ago, Iraq was a functioning state. Now it is a battleground for sectarian factions, held in check only by the U.S. occupying forces. If we are to prevail over the international terrorists, we should take care to provide fewer centers for their recruitment and training, rather than more.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549
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