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Less knife, more invisible hand.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
July 6, 2009... I was struck by this quote from Gov. Mitch Daniels, as reported by Mark Hemingway in your June 8 issue ("Mitch the Knife"): "The plant will employ a process called 'coal gasification' to exploit the state's coal reserves more efficiently, creating jobs and lowering utility bills." It...

Wise Latin man.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
July 6, 2009... Your laudable attempt to appease those who obsess over inclusive language is, alas, less than successful. In "The Week" (June 8), you offer, in a touching display of empathy, a Latin grace for meals in secular colleges: Benedictus benedicat. You translate this invocation as "may the Blessed...

Correction.(Letters)(Correction notice)
July 6, 2009... In "Hinge of History" (May 25), by Ronald Radosh, it was asserted that the Crooms, a couple in Lionel Trilling's novel The Middle of the Journey, were based on Alger and Priscilla Hiss. In fact, Trilling later denied this, asserting that he had not known the Hisses until after the book's...

Asked whether he was in touch with a prominent former member of his flock, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said no: "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me.(The Week)(Rev. Jeremiah Wright's relationship with United States President Barack Obama)(Brief article)
July 6, 2009... Asked whether he was in touch with a prominent former member of his flock, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said no: "Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me." But them Jews needn't worry: Obama never hears him anyway, right?

James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist and anti-Semite, walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with a .22 rifle and killed Stephen Johns, a security guard.(The Week)(Brief article)
July 6, 2009... James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist and anti-Semite, walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with a .22 rifle and killed Stephen Johns, a security guard. Other guards shot and wounded von Brunn before he could commit more mayhem. Sixty-four years after...