Posted on 05/29/2005 2:17:24 AM PDT by neverdem
Re "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did" (May 22):
As one of those people to whom The New York Times has become a daily ritual - even in Afghanistan - I say thank you.
As should always happen when somebody takes up a new, ill-defined job, you molded it into something valuable and even groundbreaking.
And in the end, you signed off with style, class and wisdom. We should all hope to have as much effect on our place of work as you did on yours - and on thousands of loyal readers.
(Capt.) JONATHAN J. HOPKINS Qalat, Afghanistan, May 22, 2005
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As a business owner, I'm still amazed at the power The Times as an institution effectively declares (and the risks it takes) by hiring someone to air potential faults and mistakes - not internally, but to its entire customer base. That you filled the job description so well is equally extraordinary. Barney Calame has very big shoes to fill.
STEPHAN D. WARE Dallas, May 23, 2005
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No matter what you say, it can't have been easy being the target of several very tough constituencies simultaneously, history being one of them. You have been a good pioneer and an important one. We citizens of this republic with a beleaguered Constitution have good reason to be grateful.
CHARLES ZIGMUND Pleasantville, N.Y., May 22, 2005
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Your columns have raised and grappled with some of the most serious issues facing our beleaguered press.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
If the paper hadn't been a disgrace already, then he would have been a bigger one.
He didn't even understand his role, he thought (according to him) that his job was some kind of PR director.
For the record, Dan Okrent is also one of the (if not the) founders of rotessire baseball and fantasy sports.
Yes, he is a stat sports guy.
Must be short on toilet paper in Afghanistan?
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What a truly awful situation you have described. Out in the harshest landscape in the world, out of toilet paper, and faced with a choice of NY Slimes or the Koran, you find that the Slimes is printed on softer paper.
EWWW! Guess what that leaves to read?
Nothing?.... Times, Koran, toilet paper...leaves, a stick.... it's all the same... I guess you can read the clouds.
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