To the Editor: Regardless of what Thomas L. Friedman has written before or will write in the future, his May 13 column is a classic.

To the Editor: Re Maureen Dowd's May 14 column: Entertainment has become the ultimate service industry.

To the Editor: Bob Herbert's May 26 column should be required reading for every member of the administration and every member of Congress.

In the meantime, I think it's worth relating the reaction to my May 9 column on the Tony Awards.

After I raised this idea in my May 30 column, I was asked whether it would be fair if sources didn't know this was the deal.

To the Editor: Anthony Lewis's May 27 column about South Africa was refreshingly positive.

To the Editor: In his May 30 column "Partners in Crime?"

But in his May 2 column, he called the president's proposal "a plan to slash middle-class benefits" and "a gut punch to the middle class."

But as Paul Krugman points out in his May 30 column, "Bad Heir Day," it's a cruel joke.

That is why, experts explained in the May 18 column, infants should be given whole milk, not skim milk, until they are 2 years old.