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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...
...Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Richard Sommer and the students in his studio class “Belfast Recast” have developed proposals to help the city overcome a past fraught with sectarian conflict. The 12 students’ most controversial proposal is a plan to build a new parliament building in midtown Belfast. The body’s current home, in Stormont, is closely associated with unionist—mainly Protestant—rule, and Sommer and a student said the move would be symbolic of the recent power-sharing alliance formed between Protestants and Catholics...
...need to work to reinvigorate our public discussion through our elected bodies,” Seidel said. “We want more cooperation and collaboration among councillors, and one of the things I can bring to the council is an ability to work with people to build consensus toward solutions...
...reason I’m going is, the opportunity to build up an institute that’s devoted to this neglected dimension of global health is very exciting,” Murray said. “I think there’s increasingly a critical mass of people dedicated to different dimensions of global health in the Seattle area, so it’s an exciting place...