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8.28.02 @ 12:01AM

SHELVED
Re: Lawrence Henry's Red Rabbit Is Rich:

Mr. Lawrence Henry's comments on Red Rabbit were right on. I just finished reading Red Rabbit last night. I stored it at the back of the Clancy section with the thought that I would not be rereading it soon. I took up The Cardinal of the Kremlin to follow up the threads Red Rabbit foreshadowed, such as the capture of Cassius.
-- Mary Barre-Van Buren

POPPINS THE BIG QUESTION
Re: Judd Magilnick's A Spoonful of Self-Delusion:

I think Mary Poppins was a very conservative figure, not the harbinger of any modern nanny ethos. The mother of the family was involved in the suffragette movement to the neglect of the children, which was clearly portrayed in the movie as a dereliction of duty. Mary leaves the family when the mother agrees to stay at home more and the father understands he must take more of an interest in the children's activities. The movie was clearly "anti-nanny" in our modern sense. Perhaps that is why I don't seem to see the movie on cable much anymore.
-- Mike Collins

CAVALIER STAKES
Re: Dave Shiflett's Holy Rollers:

Dave Shiflett should not be so quick to claim the John and Ho at St. Patrick's as Virginians. Were they born there? Were their families? Current residency in the one of the more notoriously-transient Northern Virginia communities (such as Quantico and Alexandria) does not make one a Virginian. As an FFV in exile for over thirty years, I am rather sensitive about who can claim the Old Dominion as home. Neither of these two-legged goats demonstrate any Cavalier State qualities.
-- Christopher J. Kelleher

Shiflett's column is crude and pathetic. If he's an example of where this page is headed, please close shop.
-- Dennis Losness

I'm sure it's just a typo, but I have to ask: "Adultery, which is on the Top Ten list of prescribed (!) activities." Where do I get this top 10 list? Thanks
-- Rick Slee

"This is the religion [Catholicism], we should remember, whose Founder held that simply thinking about sex outside of marriage constituted Adultery, which is on the Top Ten list of prescribed activities."

Kind of funny, actually. Just leave it as is?
-- Ted Angell

HOW ABOUT ITALIAN CUISINE?
Re: Francis X. Rocca's Contempt Providers:

In November 1999 my husband and I moved to England for about 6 months for his job assignment.

Until then I had been an Anglophile, and wistfully longed for my fantasy of Europe. But those long months of dreary weather, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, post-Christian socialism and terrible customer service cured me.

Formerly I complained of the pox of McDonald's restaurants; when confronted with English cuisine, we depended on the home of the Big Mac, and judging by the ever-present line at the counter, so did the English.

If Wal-Mart takes over the market, it will only be because people are sick of high prices, inconvenience and surly non-service.

Letter to the Editor

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