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- Letters to the editor
Regarding “Sanders cleared in Sunroad dealings” (Our Region, May 21):
Mayor Jerry Sanders has done what he promised to do. He has returned San Diego to the bond market, and he did it without filing bankruptcy (as suggested by City Attorney Michael Aguirre), without raising taxes and without gutting the pension plan so important to current city retirees (as again suggested by Aguirre).
- ROBERT NOVAK CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
McCain won't play Obama's game
When one of the Democratic Party's most astute strategists this week criticized John McCain for attacking Barack Obama's desire to engage Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I asked what the Republican presidential candidate ought to talk about in this campaign.
- DAVID S. BRODER THE WASHINGTON POST
The importance of Ted Kennedy
Not since the day nearly 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individual that struck so deep a blow to so many in this capital. The medical bulletin from Massachusetts General Hospital about Sen. Ted Kennedy was at once a personal tragedy and a political cataclysm.
- Red flags over consumer genetics
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, known as GINA, sailed through Congress earlier this month and was signed into law yesterday by President Bush. The law of the land now prohibits health insurance companies or employers from using information gleaned from your genes against you.
- THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Power shifting from United States
There has been much debate in this campaign about which of our enemies the next U.S. president should deign to talk to. The real story, the next president may discover, though, is how few countries are waiting around for us to call. It is hard to remember a time when more shifts in the global balance of power are happening at once – with so few in America's favor.
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