* Regarding your Nov. 29 report from Seattle, all I can say is "same old, same old." Hostility toward free trade and capitalism is the norm among most intellectuals throughout academe and the media. It's always something about capitalism--it's never good enough, and although the other systems literally kill millions and millions of people, while capitalism tends, in the main, to produce prosperity for most who are touched by it, the whiners are always there to besmirch it. Their goal is clear--to control people's economic affairs, to regiment them, pretending it is little children they care about. Give me a break.

TIBOR MACHAN
Silverado