Word: letterer
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...Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees Chair, Charles E. Haldeman, in late fall 2007 and made his final decision over the winter vacation, according to The Dartmouth, the college’s student newspaper. The board will discuss the search process at their March meeting, according to a letter to Dartmouth by Haldeman, and hopes to secure a successor by the time Wright leaves at the end of the 2008-2009 academic year. Wright, who previously served as dean of Dartmouth’s faculty and then as provost, said in a letter to the community that...
...they were even buried at all. The work of interring, marking, and mourning the dead changed the way Americans approached politics, culture, and God. The war, Faust argues, popularized America’s two greatest products: sentimentality and irony. Her research relies on soldiers’ letters culled from archives around the country. By attaching these voices to names, Faust defines each one’s individuality and grants her subjects intimacy and dignity. The effect is akin to reading a neighbor’s home-printed Christmas letter that’s sprinkled with updates on 10-year...
Khan's lawyers have said their client has gone on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his confinment, and appears pale and gaunt. In the course of meetings with counsel and the Red Cross, Khan also handed over neatly penned, handwritten letters. Several have been made public, after heavy redactions imposed by U.S. military censors. One of Khan's messages begins: "In this letter I am going to mention some of the things I have been through." Then the next 19 lines of text are blacked...
...wrote that Faust believed “it would be wise” for what he termed “lesser universities” to leave larger science endeavors to wealthier private schools. The story provoked a denunciation from the provosts of 11 large public universities who sent a letter to BusinessWeek criticizing Faust for purportedly alleging that “lesser-endowed universities should back off from ‘ambitious’ scientific research and focus instead on social science and the humanities.” Faust responded in a letter to the editor published yesterday that these...
...Although this piece can only begin to address the broad legal scope of this issue, it deserves to be said that requiring absentee voters to pay postage on their ballots seems to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the 24th Amendment. The amendment reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason...