Word: letterer
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...Last spring, the movement gained steam after the Undergraduate Council sent a letter to then-President Derek C. Bok and to the University’s executive governing board, the Harvard Corporation, to urge action on the calendar...
Everyone was expecting fireworks, but all they got was a damp squib. On Monday, the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed adjourned with her former butler Paul Burrell reluctantly agreeing to bring in a letter she had written to him just before she died. The letter, which is partly quoted in one of his books, referred to a special upcoming weekend and a "secret" the two of them shared - a secret that Burrell had refused on Monday to disclose, before the judge demanded the letter. Was Diana going to announce her pregnancy that weekend...
...quite. On Tuesday afternoon, the butler was back and he had a letter - just not the one Diana had written. Instead, Burrell wrote his own letter, a "private and confidential" one to the judge, Lord Justice Scott Baker who, in turn, paraphrased it for the court. Burrell had made a mistake: the Diana letter wasn't in his Cheshire home, but actually at his house in Florida. He would send it to the court once he retrieved it; in the meantime, Burrell would let the judge in on the secret - as long as he didn't tell. But Baker said...
...second, that she was also looking at a place in South Africa. Hardly earth-shattering. But all was not lost - Burrell had brought something back from Cheshire, a small pile of papers and photos he had used to write his two tell-all books. Along with the "secret" letter and a few other letters he had in Florida, these, Burrell said, were the last bits of physical proof of his time with the Princess. After the publication of his second book, he destroyed almost everything. "I burned quite a lot of material," he said. "I had already created what...
...minute break, to give the legal teams time to look over the new evidence. When proceedings started up again, there was only an hour left - just enough time for Mansfield to pick apart everything Burrell had said the day before. Why had Burrell claimed that the letter was at his house in Cheshire when it was really in Florida? Why had he told the court there was one secret, when he knew there were two? And why was he even saying they were secrets when he had published at least one of them in a book? Burrell, looking more confident...