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Letter: A Failed Strategy at Dartmouth

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: Dartmouth College’s recent actions on sexual assaults, gender discrimination and homophobia follow a longstanding strategy: See evil, hear evil, speak evil, but don’t actually do anything about it. It is doomed again to failure. We have long read about the usual suspects gathering, speaking out, declaiming on Dartmouth’s need to face up to these issues. Those demanding action — such as the ubiquitous Ivy Schweitzer and Tom …

Letter: A Particularly Malicious Column

Friday, May 17, 2013

To the Editor: I’ve come to expect a healthy dose of self-loathing in Jim Kenyon’s columns. After all, living in one of Vermont’s most affluent towns and sending his kids to well-funded schools is obviously something that he needs to atone for. And what better way to demonstrate that he is not one of those Norwichites than by constantly writing about how awful …

Letter: Sweet Smell of Money

Monday, May 6, 2013

To the Editor: The front-page Valley News article about the beverage industry’s considerable spending in Vermont to scuttle a proposed tax on sweetened drinks (“Sugary Drink Industry Spent Heavily in Vt.”) suggests that the newspaper finds the industry’s spending and lobbying efforts appalling. Yet, the Valley News, shockingly, ran full-page ads paid for by the very same beverage industry. C’mon, guys. In the …

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