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...time in a slow news week, was the enigma of Carson. Millions saw and liked him 150 times a year, yet he steadfastly hoarded the essence of his personality. "If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself," wrote Kenneth Tynan, who interviewed Carson for a 1977 New Yorker profile reprinted in the book Show People, "burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade, and you hear the distant baying of guard dogs...
...acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer by Sun Tzu, would have taught Rumsfeld that if you don't have the army you might want, then you don't go to war. How dare he put the Administration's vendetta ahead of the welfare of his troops. Kenneth J. Wiebe Chilliwack, Canada Sins of the Son U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan has an image as the world's most trusted diplomat [Dec. 13]. The alleged involvement of his son in the oil-for-food scandal has put a blot on his father's reputation. But why should...
...acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer by Sun Tzu, would have taught Rumsfeld that if you don't have the army you might want, then you don't go to war. How dare he put the Administration's vendetta ahead of the welfare of his troops. Kenneth J. Wiebe Chilliwack, Canada...
...several reports of tabulation glitches producing phantom votes for the presidential candidates. The original count finds a gap of two percent separating Bush and Kerry in Ohio—not terribly close, and certainly not narrow enough to trigger an automatic recount under state law. Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, the overseer of the Ohio elections and a Republican who ardently supported Bush’s re-election campaign, has been adamant in his stance that the elections in Ohio were fair, and that a recount would be a waste of state tax money. But Blackwell opined that...
...suspicious too. In December 2002, a year before the company collapsed, Joanna Speed, Merrill Lynch's food-industry analyst in London, issued a "sell" recommendation on Parmalat stock. She found the accounts incomprehensible. Yet as late as 2003, Bank of America was still trying to woo Parmalat. In June, Kenneth Lewis, the bank's then chief executive, flew to Parma to see Tanzi. Ferraris recalls that the meeting with Lewis was cordial; he encouraged Parmalat to use the bank's services. "It was a marketing call," Ferraris recalls. "Lewis was saying, we'd love to do more business with...