Rihanna must consider message John I. Mayo - Creedmoor, N.C. I am most definitely "old school" when it comes to music, and I hardly knew who Chris Brown or Rihanna were ("Rihanna and Chris Brown get back together," Lifeline Live,......

I have a letter in the New York Times this morning: To the Editor: Roger Cohen seeks to negate any analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany or, for that matter, any totalitarian state. So be it. But Iran is Iran, and any presentation of its Jews as free people rather than an oppressed minority is still...

Better role models Chuck Cabrera - Tucson With the likes of Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, today's youth are hard-pressed for role models ("Poll throws doubt at A-Rod," Sports, Friday). The pressure on athletes to gain adulation, break......

Pay with hard work, not credit Michael Pravica - Henderson, Nev. Saving for the future is very important for families and can rescue them when times get tough and jobs are lost ("End the war on savings," The Forum, Thursday).......

In the New York Times, along with others: Re “Why the Muslim World Can’t Hear Obama� (Op-Ed, Feb. 8): Alaa Al Aswany says that the only way the Arab street, particularly in Cairo, will hear Barack Obama is if our new president recognizes “the right of people in an occupied territory to resis...

From Treasury, no hard facts, figures on recovery planAdrian Vance - Lakeport, Calif. If you are a hard-line Democrat and watched Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's presentation on the stimulus plan Tuesday, you were probably disappointed ("Trillions aimed at recovery," News,......

Wisdom: Wrong on all counts... Sir, - James Adler has it all wrong ("Why the 1967 borders work," Letters, February 8). His selective history and facile argumentation echoes those who want to dismantle Israel piece by piece. Adler, like many on the Left, artificially picks 1967as the beginning of Isr...

Obama's admission of mistake bodes well for president Lloyd P. Trufelman - New York President Obama's admission that he "screwed up" the nomination of former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle was quite newsworthy ("For Obama, nominees' exits take off some......

It is my observation that despite the many letter writers published in the NYTimes, they have sympathy for certain persons (see below) and do not like others (yours truoy). In a "letter-to-the-editor" in today's NYTimes, one Benjamin Solomon of Evanston, Ill., who describes himself as "a rather aged...

I'm referring to "letters-to-the-New York Times-editor". We had one yesterday. Here's another from that hotbed of pro-Pal. sentiment: To the Editor: The fact that the United States’ negotiating teams attending to the Arab-Israeli conflict have largely been Jewish with few or no Arab-American voice...