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Letters to the Editor South Bend Tribune I was returning from O'Hare International Airport on May 11 and attempted to exit the Toll Road at about 4:45 p.m. at the Mishawaka exit. It was backed up in both lanes as a semi was in the E-Z Pass lane and having problems. The cash lane was very slow. This has happened to me several times at Elkhart, Mishawaka and Valparaiso. There is no excuse for this. Why do we have the downspout barriers? Illinois, Kentucky and California have no barriers on their toll roads or bridges, so why do we? It slows down traffic even if they work properly. The technolog...

When young Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour, who had been teaching set design at the University of Tehran, was summoned for compulsory military service, he declared himself a conscientious objector. In Iran under the harsh boot of the mullahs, that was not the wisest decision. Graced with plain dumb good luck, Soleimanpour was not imprisoned or tortured for his deeply held obstinacy. The authorities slapped him softly by rescinding his passport and therefore forbade him travel. Since his family were well-known writers in Iran, where poetry is revered, their social status may have saved his life. B...