For your editorial to assert that Congress has done nothing to protect Americans from a terrorist attack on chemical plants is off the mark.
Vice President Al Gore designated Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall as favorites, but this leads your editorial to predict that he would appoint more moderate justices.
For your editorial to say that one possibly misjudged joke 'comprehensively undermined his reputation as a leading supporter of female scientists' is simply silly.
These changes led the researchers who did the study you cite in your editorial to conclude that their original favorable results "cannot be assumed to apply directly to the new statewide version of the program".
The calls by Joseph P. Viteritti (Op-Ed, Jan . 6 and your Jan . 7editorial to abolish the Board of Education and replace it with direct mayoral control of the New York City public schools deserve strong support.
KENT GORDIS Brooklyn, Oct. 17, 2013 To the Editor: Re "The Republican Surrender" (editorial, Oct. 17): Contrary to your editorial saying the Republicans gained almost nothing, I think they gained quite a lot and in the long term may be declared the overall winner.
"When you engage in a certain kind of journalism that is designed to be an alternative to the mainstream, you have a special obligation to have your editorial, your values and your advertising align".
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I raise my glass to your editorial board for its support of American tap water (editorial, Aug. 18).
David Lux, Coventry, R.I.: Reading your column today prompted a tour of the TimesSelect archive, which brought me to your editorial desk piece of September 9, 2003, "Whatever It Takes".
