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Part of the panel's function is simply to inform people that slavery is ongoing, Williams said. "Many of us are under the understanding that slavery ended in 1865 with the Emancipation Proclamation" he said...
Portraying our nation's foster-care system as shameful will only erode efforts to reform it. We need to focus on attracting some of our nation's best social workers, administrators and resource families to this difficult field. Reform is occurring, and children are benefiting. You failed to inform your readers of the many U.S. success stories in which public and private child-welfare systems are collaborating to serve foster children more effectively. JEFFREY NITZ Huntingdon Valley...
...saying in a letter last October that I am "a sheer delight." He then added, "Can we meet, and can you just let me hang out and listen and observe?" For those of you who have never got a mash note from a Broadway star, let me inform you that Goulet letters are not sent through the U.S. mail but are inserted into FedEx envelopes. Somebody sold more Man of La Mancha albums than we thought...
...which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity. It ended up as the spark plug. A 1983 interuniversity computer network, intended as an academic exchange, ended up as www.everything...
...case, Harvard told an ex-Communist that he could not have a job promised to him if he did not inform on the party...