Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- Much ado about a book! There will always be hawks and doves on both sides. It is at such times that I appreciate the admonition of Gordon B Hincklrey:

"A small publication that came to me some years ago carried the following: 'Once a man who had been slandered by a newspaper came to Edward Everett asking what to do about it. Said Everett, 'Do Nothing! Half the people who bought the paper never saw the article. Half of those who saw it, did not read it. Half of those who understood it, did not believe it. Half of those who believed it are of no account anyway' ("Sunny Side of the Street," Nov. 1989). So many of us make a great fuss over matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can br...