Letters to the Editor

Arianna Huffington is dead wrong
BY IAN WILLIAMS
(12/18/99)

Thanks for running Ian Williams' devastating critique of Arianna Huffington's latest propaganda. I encountered Huffington once when we were interviewing her for a "Frontline" biography of then-Speaker of the House Gingrich. At the time, she was comfortably ensconced in one of Newt's spin-off "think tanks." While Newt and his "Contract with America" cohorts were busy dismantling the government's "safety net" for the poor, Huffington was touting her patron as a "compassionate conservative." Her solution at the time for poverty and all those single moms kicked off the welfare rolls? Running PSAs at Thanksgiving urging people to donate to a charity.

-- Stephen Talbot

Are there any figures for deaths caused by our bombing of Serbia? Are there estimates? We don't seem to hear reports about what problems the civilian population of Serbia is experiencing. It seems to me that regarding our nation's actions in the Balkans we have been subjected to one of the most concentrated propaganda barrages I've seen since the Vietnam War. As ugly and destructive and foul as that war was, at least it was contained in a relatively small area. This conflict in the Balkans seems to bear the seeds for a much larger conflagration.

-- Charles Whittington

Foreskin and several years from now
BY KIM LANE
(12/17/99)

I personally know three men who were circumcised in adulthood. In response to my inevitable "before and after" question, two said sex felt exactly the same and one said it felt better. So there.

-- Earl Hartman

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