letters

School books and letters from friends are piled on a desk.

The National Association of Manufacturers, the R&D Coalition and the National Foreign Trade Council sent letters urging the administration to write rules that would be favorable to companies.

Within these soaring structures, boardrooms hosted strategic debate, offices allowed for private meetings and calls, and shared spaces, filled with secretaries, churned out budgets, reports, memos and letters.

Today, “ICE” bears the same chill: An acronym that flattens cruelty into three clean letters.

The story is told in the form of letters and emails, an artifice rarely embraced by readers.