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...wide stir when she described firing her nanny Tessy for blogging about the family. The Web consensus? Olen was wrong to sack the nanny--ATRIOS dubbed the essayist "wanker of the week"--and downright depraved for airing her dirty laundry in the pages of the Gray Lady. Opinion was divided on whether Tessy made a mistake by confessing the blogging to her employer. The nanny fired back with a 3,200-word rebuttal on her site, INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DOUBLE, then announced that she would blog no more--at least under her real name...
...historic standards, the Rehnquist years have been collegial, but the public arguments have grown ever fiercer in recent years. Every Justice feels entitled to pen his or her own dissent or concurring opinion to every paragraph written by the majority or the minority. It drives lower courts insane. By now, the Justices may know one another too well. Not since the 1820s has the court gone so long without getting any new blood. Of course, they know Roberts as well, though it may be his knowledge of them that proves a little unsettling. He has studied each of them closely...
...this book with a great deal of sadness. When I was in high school and college in the ?60s, the civil rights movement was the most important movement and the most moral movement of my time, and of the 20th century, for that matter. Martin Luther King, in my opinion, was one of the five most important, decent Americans since our founding as a nation. What happens after Martin Luther King gets assassinated? We get Jesse Jackson, we get Al Sharpton. If the implication is that you can?t write about Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton without worrying about being...
...Your story only confirms what we have known all along: that the U.S., in its blissful arrogance, does not respect world opinion on any issue. Whether it is environmental concerns or human rights, America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process?you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom to the rest of the world? Ramji Abinashi Amersham, England...
...personal dignity of a fanatic trained for mass murder may be an inevitable casualty." What has happened to the America of my youth? David Wasserman Rognes, France Your story only confirms what we have known all along: that the U.S., in its blissful arrogance, does not respect world opinion on any issue. Whether it is environmental concerns or human rights, America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process - you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom...