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From: Philip Gura <dixiewkr@...>
To the Editor:
I've never been a Time subscriber, and I'm certainly not inclined
ever to become one after learning about Joel Stein's sophomoric,
mean-spirited, gratuitous assault on the sport of racewalking. It would
certainly be a waste of my time to try to educate Mr. Stein about the
sport here; it's clear to me that he never advanced much beyond the
survival skills he presumably lived by in grade school: "I'm not
talented enough to do it; I'm too dumb to understand it; I'm too
closed-minded to appreciate it, and I'm too lazy to learn about it:
Better make fun of it." That attitude is perhaps understandable in a
ten-year old, but if Mr. Stein's work is indicative of the quality of
the writing in your magazine, maybe he just knows his audience.
Laugh now, Joel. Racewalking was in the Olympics long before you
started beating up little kids for their lunch money and it'll still be
there long after you've had your heart attack and walked your last mile.
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