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...Voters Decide I resent David von Drehle's implication in "The Limits of Race" that whites who vote against Obama do so for racial reasons [Oct. 20]. Obviously race influences some voters, but what about blacks? Certainly some African Americans will vote for Obama because he is black. How many of these voters will cancel out white voters who vote for the wrong reasons? James C. Perley, LITTLE SIOUX, IOWA...
...uneducated, racist and antiforeigner is insulting. Conservatives welcome immigrants of all cultures to America's shores just as liberals do; they part ways on who should foot the bill and how immigrants should be integrated into society. If Obama loses the election, rather than revealing our views on race or our lack of receptiveness to other cultures, it will show that Americans prefer governance from the middle - not from the far left. Kathleen Sliwiak, GAITHERSBURG...
...American enough?" was an excellent review of the hidden reason why Obama could lose the upcoming election. The author was quite correct that the problem goes beyond race and, instead touches on the cultural differences this candidate seems to represent. My only disappointment is that the precise word for this hidden element in the campaign - xenophobia - never appeared once in the article. People should be given the word that applies to this ugly situation, even if they are proud of living in their "melting pot." Max Gordon Lee, ECHIROLLES, FRANCE...
...alternate realities of stardom and inner-city melodrama have coalesced into a nimbus of potential meaning for the rest of us. Poverty plus celebrity plus race plus bad choices plus crime add up to ... What? Should we compare the media coverage of the Hudsons unfavorably with that of white victims like JonBenét Ramsey and Chandra Levy? Must it take an Academy Award to make one family's trauma stand out against a drumbeat of urban crime...
...regrettable things without actually having to regret them.There is no such free pass in Ivy League football.With just seven games of conference play, each Saturday brings a sense of urgency, each win or loss a sense of finality.We approach the home stretch of the season, and the race for first place in the Ancient Eight is tightening to suffocating proportions.So while the rest of us get Sweet n’ Nasty, visit Heaven and Hell, and then return to school not much changed, we should have a little sympathy for Harvard and the other Ivy League teams seeking that...