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John Joseph IV, BIRMINGHAM...
Michael Rolfe, Birmingham, England Kishore Mahbubani writes that Asians expect Europeans to treat Asians with respect, not cultural condescension. Oddly, he castigates Europeans for taking a stand regarding human rights in Burma, China and India. Europe may not have a monopoly on open, representative and democratic government, but a cursory glance at much of the governance in Asia would suggest that maybe Asia should be asking itself why it has not won over European hearts, minds and investment...
...civil rights imagination. This small, wiry white Southerner, who died March 9 at 79, had his lens, and his courage, at the ready: in Montgomery, Ala., in 1958, when cops were shoving and arm-bending Martin Luther King Jr. down onto a police booking desk, and in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, when Bull Connor's police dogs (above) so savagely strained at their leashes...
...help but wonder: Where was the concern from these vocal Tea Partyers a few years ago? Our economy is a shambles because of the Bush Administration, yet people congregate to retaliate against President Obama, who has actively tried to undo George W. Bush's mistakes. Faith Munford Birmingham...
Faith Munford, BIRMINGHAM...