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...Essay "Why Montana Is Turning Blue" [April 25], Walter Kirn suggested that Montana's shift from Republican red to Democratic blue is the result of the influx of people like him who moved to the state 10 to 15 years ago. My wife and I have lived in Montana for most of our 60-plus years. We don't snowboard, raft or eat sushi, but, by golly, we've been to the Big Apple, and we like New York City. Montana, though, will always be our home. Nowhere in the world are the skies so big and blue. Our state...
ESSAY: Walter Kirn on the costly but irresistible summer drive...
...Walter Kirn's piece about how things get complicated once the fighting actually begins brought us down into the dust where the real war is taking place [ESSAY, April 14]. Kirn uncovered the circumstances for what they are. War is an awful, terrible thing. Yet his article gives me reason to hope that when all is said and done, the lines will be redrawn, except this time there will be no "they"--the Iraqis and the Americans--only "us." CHRISTINA HILDRETH Novi, Mich...
...there? That's the vague, selfish fear we're reluctant to admit out of respect for others' more piercing ones: someday, without warning, we'll hear a silence deeper than the silence we're accustomed to, and we'll know something awful has happened, beyond our reach. --By Walter Kirn...
...piece about the early onset of darkness, Walter Kirn calls for an emergency extension of daylight saving time (DST) so it will be light later [ESSAY, Nov. 11]. Unlike Kirn, I'm glad dst is over. Without sunlight, I had trouble waking up and facing a new day's challenges. An extra hour of light in the afternoon doesn't really do any good. Who is going to take a walk in diminishing sunlight when it's almost freezing outside? Extending DST is not going to change people's perception of winter very much. Winter isn't a gloomy time...