To the Editor: I was surprised and disturbed by your Dec. 2 front-page article on interracial marriages.

Your Dec. 13 obituary article is filled with inaccuracies and borders on slander.

Thank you for using John as the example for your questions, because I can cite the Dec. 31 article mentioned earlier.

The question linked to a Dec. 8 article about college students with mental illness asked if the schools should involve parents in the students' treatment.

To the Editor: I read your Dec. 29 front-page article with dismay.

According to an Dec. 6 article in Pravda, the van in the Moscow area is empty.

To the Editor: Your Dec. 24 front-page article on alcoholism renders a tremendous service.

In the Dec. 20 article, the reference was in the 13th paragraph.

The toll-free numbers for light- therapy companies in your Dec. 29 article on the subject will certainly be useful to many readers.

To the Editor: Your Dec. 27 front-page article on school vouchers misses one important dimension of the controversy.