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  • Back, Mama Grizzly

    Given TIME's rich history of substantive reporting, I am perplexed by your infatuation with Sarah Palin ["What Does She Want?" Dec. 20]. My success as a CEO is predicated on being able to evaluate senior-management talent. Palin's ability to resonate with middle America by spewing invective and bromides at the Washington establishment is no substitute for having the economic and geopolitical savvy to guide the world's largest economy.

    Peter Smith, BADEN, PA.

    If I wanted to read a valentine to Palin, I would raid her mailbox on Feb. 14.

    Dewi L. Faulkner, PALO ALTO, CALIF.

    After a long life of service to his nation, John McCain, it now appears, will leave as a legacy his thoughtless infliction of Palin on the American people.

    John W. DeArman, ST. LOUIS

    A Sound Wall

    "Palestinians, Contained," leaves me scratching my head [Dec. 20]. Basically, you say that after years of suicide bombings in Israel committed by Palestinians, to which Israelis responded by erecting a wall, the Palestinians want the Israelis to come out and play. You then suggest that the youth, the ones who are taught hatred of Israel and Jews in their homes and schools, do not know their Israeli counterparts--and it's all Israel's fault. Your article makes no sense and smacks of your one-sided reporting of this situation.

    H. Alster, EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J.

    Once again, Karl Vick chooses to ignore the underlying reasons for Middle East issues. It's not the separation that is causing younger Palestinians to be more distrustful of Israelis. It's the unremitting incitement, beginning almost at infancy, by their leaders that is turning this new generation into one filled with more hate and distrust than the current one.

    Allan Kandel, LOS ANGELES

    Thank you for your fair assessment of the plight of the Palestinians in the West Bank and their life behind the new Iron Curtain. I wish more U.S. news sources were willing to report on this issue in such an informative and balanced way.

    Dennis Allen, CHICAGO

    Elizabeth Edwards' Life

    I don't know whom David Von Drehle was looking at when he referred to Elizabeth Edwards as a "wreck" ["Appreciation," Dec 20]. Edwards' body was ravaged by the cancer that took her life, and her marriage was indeed shredded. But her essence was most certainly not a wreck. She faced her challenges with courage and grace.

    Nancy Smathers, LAGRANGE, GA.

    It is demeaning and shallow to view Edwards from such a chauvinistic point of view. It was not her reputation that was eaten away, as Von Drehle states; it was her husband's. Her reputation stands intact. She led her life honorably.

    Katie DeLuca, BATH, MICH.

    Debating Assange

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