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...Sides of a Wall I concur with Simon Robinson that walls reflect a lot more about the people who build them than the people they are meant to keep out [May 7]. Although the idea for walls on national borders arises out of concern for security, walls are not the right way to keep people out. They are rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn...
...Sides of a Wall I concur with Simon Robinson that walls reflect a lot more about the people who build them than the people they are meant to keep out [May 7]. Although the idea for walls on national borders arises out of concern for security, walls are not the right way to keep people out. They are rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn...
...raise living standards, many Chinese will be inclined to leave the current system-authoritarian as it may be-alone. There is a place in the world, of course, for inductive reasoning like Hutton's, and for fresh ideas presented by nonspecialists. But in this case I'll have to concur with a certain Hunanese poet and politician who advised that it was best to "seek truth from the facts...
...consultant companies except for my own,” says Michele A. Hernandez-Bayliss, the founder of Hernandez College Consulting. She warns against using a uniform strategy for all of her clients. “I really try to make them better students.”The Harvard companies concur. TransferAdmit, Ivy Insiders, and Bolger Strategic all emphasize that since they’ve been in the situation themselves, their goal is to give advice and to empathize with students’ problems. They don’t focus on a specific admissions goal or strategy...
...forthe insightful story"Putting Limits on Teen Drivers" [Oct. 23]. TIME identified two of the root causes for the horrific teen driving statistics: the developing adolescent brain and parents who think accidents happen only to other people's kids. Having trained one of my teenagers to drive, I concur with your story's conclusion that adding new laws and restrictions on teenagers is a good beginning, but parents must add more rigor and oversight as their children are taught to drive...