The American Spectator

: /p> p>Mr. Neumayr’s article, admiring the prescience of Mr. Churchill in the inability of Indians to run their own affairs in the absence of “Western” influence, is an anachronistic, inaccurate and condescending opinion. What is more troubling, however, that such a view should find a place on your website. The imperialistic doctrine has been dead for over half a century now and its demise began in the United States over 200 years ago. The conflict between India and Pakistan is complex and has numerous roots, not the least of which was pernicious and malicious “western” interference at the time of Independence. To assign the current scenario to the withdrawal of the British is akin to saying in 1863 that the Civil War shows that the United States should never have been free. br> — Narender /p> p> WELCHERS br> Re: Peter Hannaford’s Four Ways for CEOs to Retire : /p>

I live in the greater Corning/Painted Post area of Upstate New York. The city of Corning has a population of maybe 12,000 at most. When factoring in its multitude of little burbs, the population is said to be about 35,000. Corning Inc. is the major employer of quality jobs in this valley. A couple of years ago Corning Inc., at its manufacturing height, employed 8,200 locals. However, those halcyon days are long gone since the telecom bubble burst and Corning (company and town) got slimed in the process. Several thousand locals have since been laid off/fired.

To add insult to our local economic injury, the CEO, John Loose, “retired” this April with a sackful of goodies. Mr. Loose had been with the company for over three decades, but he was CEO a mere sixteen months when he suddenly decided he needed to spend more time with his family. When Mr. Loose left, Jamie Houghton came out of his retirement to assume the reigns once again of the company his family had, at one time, controlled. Mr. Loose was frolicking in Europe when this was announced.

As CEO retirement packages go, Mr. Loose’s might be considered almost paltry. But in this community, where people, who had worked their entire lives, were being summarily dumped with no viable employment prospects awaiting them, the news of a $6Million cash payment, plus an annual lifetime pension of nearly $1Million, is obscene.