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I was shocked when I read the article on Kim Kimbrough ["Bulldog,"
, Feb. 12, 2003]. To think that the man who runs the Portland Business Alliance would introduce efficiency to the organization by eliminating extraneous staff.... Well, that's just not the way we do things here. Then I read "Kim's Rules" and just about fell out of my chair. The nerve of this outsider, coming here and expecting--no, demanding--that his employees dress and behave professionally while on company time. What an outrage! No gum-chewing or cigarette-smoking when representing the organization? Where in the world did we find this philistine? And how might we recruit more of them?
Quentin Borges-Silva
Northeast 33rd Avenue
DOUBLE NOTHING
Are you people so hard up for a cover story that you have to resort to doing one on the identical twins/losers, David and Bryan Hudnall ["Double Jeopardy," Feb. 5, 2003]? Let's see, the story consisted of their criminal records, drug addictions, attempts to panhandle and scam, etc., etc., etc. In one word, I can tell you why these two (with nobody but themselves to support) are on the street: laziness! While the rest of us are going to work to support ourselves, these deadbeats are hanging out and trying to scam/bum their next dollar off of the people who work for a living.
Unfortunately, you cannot save people from themselves, unless they are willing to change.
Steven Conner
Southeast 150th Avenue
HOW TO LOSE A READER IN 10 DAYS
I'm writing in regards to film critic David Walker's review [Feb. 12, 2002] of the film Fidel, a documentary that Walker praises to high heaven for gushing about how wonderful Fidel Castro is. Walker then does a Riverdance on top of the U.S. media, stomping on journalists for their "anti-Castro rhetoric." As a liberal myself, I don't understand other self-proclaimed liberals who justifiably yell themselves purple about George W. Bush curtailing some of our constitutional rights, and then turn right around and praise Fidel Castro, a man who has never met a right that he
didn't light up and smoke like a giant cigar.
Sure, the man may be charming, and Cuba may try to provide adequate health care for all of its people. But that doesn't change the fact that Castro is a totalitarian dictator. Walker is entitled to his opinions, of course, but at times he seems more interested in getting on his personal soapbox and making a political speech than in actually reviewing films. Then again, considering that Walker also loves the film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, perhaps that's for the best.
Mark Workhoven
Northwest 29th Avenue
David Walker responds: Rachel Beckman reviewed How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Her views on Cuban dictators are unknown.
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