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3.21.02 @ 12:01AM

BRIGHT LIGHTS
Re: John Corry's The Lights of New York:
Thank you for this marvelous article!

While I am an Art Historian and have found some of the past Christo projects interesting, this proposed project for Central Park strikes me as a new kind of terrorism for the citizens of Gotham!

"Haven't these people suffered enough?!"

It would seem to me that traumatized New Yorkers will need the undisturbed peace and sylvan tranquillity of Central Park more than ever and certainly do not need the spectacle of another NY landmark destroyed, however temporarily, by the hands of (a) Man with a "better idea."

I do hope that Hizzoner Bloomberg gets a clue.
-- Jennie Taliaferro
Dallas, TX

I would like to suggest for a memorial, that the World Trade Center site be used to build an Academy of Peace, on a par a with the existing military academies. Rep. Kucinich of Ohio has a bill in the Congress calling for a cabinet level Department of Peace; the Peace Academy idea is included in the bill.
-- Jim Holden

HIDING BEHIND TIPPER
Re: The Prowler's The Tipping Point:
Her half-minute in the headlines was a cover for the Pickering story in the South. The Pickering story is hard to swallow down there.
-- Annette Cwik

HANGING MODIFIERS
Re: Ryan H. Sager's Hard Cases Make Strained Commentary:
Yes, Andrea Yates should be hung -- for pity's sake. I had six children, I lived as she lived, home schooling my children, five boys and then a girl. I never crossed the line she crossed, but I can see how she got there.

What I can't understand is how anyone could be so cruel as to make her live with what she did. Does she even want to live? If she ever gets her mind back, without the deadening effects of drugs, how will she live with what she did? Far kinder to execute her.
-- Kate Pitrone

I believe that clothes are hung but people are hanged.
-- James L.J. Nuzzo

I am waiting for someone to say Rusty Yates, Andrea's husband, shares blame in this horrible affair. The last time I checked, it takes two people to bring a baby to life; and weren't the Yates advised not to have any more children for the sake of Andrea's mental health about two kids ago?

That man gives me the creeps whenever he appears on camera talking about his children and his wife and how much he misses them and talks to them. I was much happier when he was under a gag order. I think Russell Yates should be charged with something!
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, KY

PILOT MARRIAGE
Re: Reid Collins's Right From Wrong:
I cannot disagree that marriage is not a cure for pedophilia, and I haven't read the "Pilot" editorial. Allowing married priests would increase the pool of potential priests, allowing the Church a wider selection of men from which to choose. Presumably, the percentage of pedophiles in this larger pool will decrease.
-- Brian Oberlander

Pedophiles, it would seem to me, would prey on any child, not just boys. Aren't we dealing here with homosexuality? Sure, it's a warped form of the phenomenon, but so was Dahmer's peculiar fillip. Why has homosexuality become simply a homogeneous alternative? Why is homosexuality not parsed and dissected and some aficionados accused as the predators they are? Am I not being PC? Perhaps I am committing a faux pas by accusing the priesthood of attracting men who prefer the company of men. Tell the truth, Mr. Collins, and defy the brickbats. Best wishes,
-- Bill Heuisler

ROCK SOLID
Jed Babbin's article -- Punk Conservatism -- was great. Keep up the good work. Thanks again.
-- Jack L. Pennington

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