Year: 2004
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[JJ Letters] ‘Columbus bashers’ wrong
October 28, 1991 We have almost a whole year before the 500th Anniversary of America’s discovery, and already I am sick and tired of the Columbus bashers. To Columbus and the other European settlers, Indians were barbarians from the Stone Age. They were dirty, frightening and capable of horrors and a bestiality unknown to newcomers…
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[JJ Letters] Helping alcoholics
September 28, 1991 Your Sept. 12 article on the alcoholism study at the Harvard School of Public Health reports that “Hospital treatment for alcoholics (was) found to be best,” i.e., “more effective than Alcoholics Anonymous.” As they taught me in journalism school, “Define your terms.” An alcoholic’s hospital regimen is only a medical detoxification process…
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U.S. Soldier Is Killed as Helicopter Is Shot Down in Iraq
January 3, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 2 — Insurgents shot down an American military helicopter near Falluja on Friday, killing one crewman, and angry protesters gathered outside one of Baghdad’s principal Sunni Muslim mosques to protest a raid in which American troops arrested a prominent Sunni cleric and 31 others, as…
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[JJ Letters] Protesters ignore history
January 27, 1991 The grim TV coverage of our young Americans exposed to danger in the Saudi Arabian desert was exceeded in horror only by the spectacle of other youths — safe at home — publicly protesting the wisdom of that sacrifice. To me, their histrionics conjured up a half-century-old image of their patron saint,…
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[JJ Letters] O’Neill wrong on Welk
November 4, 1990Brian O’Neill snickered and smirked his way through a column which insulted Lawrence Welk on Oct. 26. It was obviously his morally illiterate, knee-jerk reaction to Mr. Welk’s grateful government that will “splurge” $500,000 to restore Mr. Welk’s boyhood home. Lawrence Welk is a genuine American hero. For openers, he is honest, gentle,…