Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

If you're trying to get votes in Indiana, it doesn't hurt to have the General on your side.

To the Editor:

Re “Georgetown Confronts Its Role in Nation’s Slave Trade” (front page, April 17):

Some Georgetown University professors, students and alumni are asking the university to compensate the descendants of slaves the university sold in 1838 to avoid bankruptcy.

Rather than singling out the blood relatives of those particular victims, Georgetown should recognize that the institution of slavery affected and continues to affect the entire African-American community.

Georgetown should instead set aside funds to reduce the tuition of all African-American students whose forebears were enslaved.

GEORGE SOROS

New York

The writer is the founder of the Open Society Foundations.

Note from KBJ: John Sullivan has some 'splainin' to do.

This boggles my mind. I've never been bored in my life. Not for one minute. Swear to God.

Best of Prism (2008). This album was originally released in 1996. The song first appeared in 1978 on the See Forever Eyes album.

John Fund is in deep, deep denial. It'll be fun to watch him dig himself out.

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To the editor:

Yossi Klein Halevi sheds light on the overly strict religious thinking that has sparked deadly confrontations for centuries. ("The Jewish story is under assault," Opinion, April 22)

He begins by trying to clarify whether Judaism is a faith or a people, and his baffling logic fails to do that. But his ending, “We are a story we tell ourselves about who we think we are,“ is easy to understand and is at the heart of the matter.

Stories we tell ourselves—especially when “ourselves” is a small group of men who create and interpret the stories while isolated from “secular” society—should remain just stories. Millions around the world suffer when believers apply their stories to things like what you must wear, what wall you can pray at or which bathroom you can use.

Let them continue to tell stories, but we don't have to listen.

Edward Dignan, Long Beach

Nothing could be more ridiculous at this point in the presidential campaign than looking ahead at match-ups. I keep hearing it said that Ted Cruz fares better than Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton. That's true, according to current polling, but that very polling suggests that Clinton would beat either one of them. The reason these polls are ridiculous is that Bernie Sanders beats all three Republican candidates, two of them (Trump and Cruz) handily. Are you buying that? My confidence in these polls is exactly zero. We won't know how candidates match up until there is only one candidate left in each party. I do know that Trump has not focused on Clinton. If and when the two of them are chosen as nominees, he will eviscerate her. When he's done with her, only Huma Abedin, her lesbian lover, will vote for her.

Live Dates Volume Two (1980). The song title is an acronym for “Fucked Up Beyond Belief,” which, according to the liner notes, is “a comment upon the period’s drug culture.”