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Envy is all over garrison keillor's article complaining about express lanes for first-class passengers at airport security checkpoints [ESSAY, Dec. 2]. It irks him that you can get better service by paying more. But if everybody gets above-average treatment, we simply redefine the level of service. Forced equalization reduces incentives to excel. As for security searches, if Keillor wants to encourage passengers to submit meekly to them, he ought to make a convincing argument instead of waving the overused Sept. 11 flag. It's like dabbing your eyes when there are no tears. THERESA LONG Williamsburg...
...PHOTO ESSAY...
...optional. Why not tell the applicants to fill out this section if—and only if—they think they fall into one of the two categories? Why not make a legacy check a box on the Harvard Application Supplement and expand the first additional essay topic from “Unusual circumstances in your life” to “Unusual circumstances in your life, including academic adversity overcome,” obviating the need for a family section on the Common Application altogether while more accurately describing the adversity overcome...
...which he first e-mailed to a few colleagues to get a few signatures. Within days he had 230. When the petition grew too large for the paper's letters section, Fox and his friends paid $900 to publish the letter as an ad. Soon the 1,000-word essay started circulating on academic e-mail lists at universities like Harvard and M.I.T. It eventually became a website NoAttackIraq.org with more than 31,000 signatures, half of them from academics from around the world...
...Essay: Asia...