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...boldest move targeted all of his professors. "Hearst was having academic difficulty with his professors, so he had a courier deliver chamber pots to his professors," Bethell says. The recipient's names were ornamentally inscribed on the bottom of each "can." This move did not go over well with the Faculty and he was shortly expelled from the school...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: I'm Gonna Git YOU Sukka: Classic Stories of Revenge at Harvard | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...calls "always come at midnight." (Generally a police car picks her up and takes her where she is needed.) She updates the list every 18 months, finding translators on her walks in town as readily as she does phoning area schools. In 1959 she told Charleston's News and Courier: "I have got so much satisfaction and happiness by trying to help people in distress. This is my repaying of my debt [to America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Give-Back Years | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...other reputable transportation companies and airlines. The strictest possible controls are required to ensure compliance with the regulations by all in the air-transportation industry. It is important that your readers know procedures are in place to protect the safety of all. WAYNE B. HEYLAND, President and CEO World Courier Group Inc. Stamford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...hoped to see him on Tuesday, November 11 (Veterans Day), but he did not respond. By courier, she sent the President another note: "I asked you three weeks ago to please be sensitive to what I am going through right now and to keep in contact with me, and yet I'm still left writing notes in vain. I am not a moron. I know that what is going on in the world takes precedence, but I don't think what I have asked you for is unreasonable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Affair Of State | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...your new ombudsperson, or reader representative. "Ombudsperson" is one of those spanking new additions to the dictionary, teetering on the borderline of officially recognized English. The first appearance of an ombudsperson on an American newspaper was in 1967 on the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Crimson followed three decades later, appointing Rajath Shourie '95 the first reader representative on Feb. 2, 1994. An executive editor of The Crimson, Shourie was an established "insider," and his official job description "charged [him] with investigating reader concerns" and by implicit extension, providing justifications or excuses for Crimson policy. He, and his successor the following...

Author: By Kaustuv Sen, | Title: Reader Representative | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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