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...Walling Off the Border Re your Mexico-U.S. border fence story: There's another aspect worth examining [July 7]. The illegals come to the U.S. seeking employment. Levying a hefty fine on employers who hire them would do a lot toward deterring illegals' entry. No jobs, not so many illegals. And some of those who are here would want to go home. W.B. McLain, Yakima, Washington...
...identify with this. Twenty20 features two 11-man teams, and each has 20 "overs"--comprising six "balls," or pitches--in which to score runs. Batters are encouraged to swing for the fences. Hit one out--and on a cricket oval, you can hit in any direction--and it's worth six runs. The team with the most runs wins. O.K., it's more complicated than that, but not by much. Purists sniff that it is dumbed-down cricket, but it is easily digested by neophytes. Last January, Stanford spent $3.5 million to test-market the sport in Fort Collins, Colo...
...productivity quotas are anathema to one of journalism's core duties, investigative reporting - an expensive enterprise that can consume months of a writer's time and often yield few results. With money at major news organizations tightening, editors and publishers are being faced with an uncomfortable question: who is worth keeping, the reporter who works on six hard-hitting pieces a year or the one who produces on a daily basis...
...encounters in a foreign culture, even if sometimes incredibly awkward, push you to question what motivates people to live life the way they do. Even if I will never understand what is so appetizing about eating a fish head, staring at one, instead of pizza or fried chicken, is worth more than just a few laughs or a good story. —Robert T. Hamlin, a Crimson sports editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House...
...honest, it's a spooky place--his favorite daughter died there, ranting and raving--and all the more worth preserving for that. I played billiards there once, on Mark Twain's table, with Garrison Keillor on his radio show. (Radio is a good medium for billiards because you can lie about how many balls you are sinking.) This is not the first time the house has been threatened by debt. That happened in 1891. Back then it was due to Twain's irrational exuberance. He had set up his own publishing company, which flourished for a while but eventually went...