Letters From Readers.

SPRING ETERNAL

This has got to be one of the best covers ever ["Positively Drew," by Julia Reed, photographed by Steven Meisel, March]. I can't stop looking at Drew Barrymore's photograph--it's mesmerizing.

Raymund Garcia Newton, MA

MEDIA TYPE

I enjoyed the profiles of memorable female leaders, such as Benazir Bhutto, Barbara Walters, and the artist Kristin Baker, in your Power Issue. But my elation turned sour when I saw that you included Wendi Murdoch ["A Woman of the World," by Sally Singer, photographed by Mario Testino, March]. I am a recent M.B.A. graduate and a former scientist, so I usually embrace profiles of female business leaders in the emerging-technology sector. However, unlike the other women featured, Murdoch derives her identity from being a partner (and a submissive one at that). She is 37 years Rupert's junior, reads what he directs her to read, and Rupert claims that he doesn't "want her to take over the company from me." I expect excellence from VOGUE, and I do not appreciate articles with a chauvinistic tone.

Lisa Routel Flemington, NJ

In "A Woman of the World," Wendi Murdoch answered a question about how her parents got around China's one-child policy (she was the third child of four) with "China's a big country. My mother's skinny. People didn't figure it out until she had me." Actually, this had nothing to do with how big the country is or how skinny Mrs. Murdoch's mother was. The fact is that the Chinese government started introducing and enforcing the one-child policy in 1979. At the age of 39, Mrs. Murdoch is still a young woman, but her birth was a little too early to be affected by this policy.