Word: letters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sept. 27, Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard F. Law '53 wrote a letter to Gov. A. Paul Cellucci saying that Marshall was "open to the serious charge of anti-Catholicism," the Boston Globe reported on Sept...
With investments in these areas still producing steadily, Meyer said in a September letter from HMC to "friends of Harvard" that according to a five-year timetable, Harvard is still "on target...
Some argue that the United States needs testing, that our weapon stockpile will deteriorate over time without testing, and could become ineffective or unsafe. Many experts, however, believe that computer simulations and tests of conventional explosives will keep the stockpile reliable. Indeed, a recent letter to the Senate signed by 32 Nobel laureates in Physics (including Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon L. Glashow) stated that "fully informed technical studies" had confirmed that nuclear tests are unnecessary to maintain the current arsenal. The environmental consequences of exploding a nuclear weapon and releasing radiation provide additional incentives for the U.S. to refrain...
Other California teachers have changed genders with little fuss--including a performing-arts teacher at Red Bluff High School, 150 miles northwest of Sacramento, who became a woman. In June the school board seemed to accept Rivers' decision, noting in a letter to parents that "although some board members hold personal values that differ from those of this individual," the job of a tenured teacher with good performance evaluations is protected by antidiscrimination laws. But school policy requires parental waivers before children can take sex education or even watch R-rated films. And board president Scott Rodowick says Rivers...
...already gone to No. 4 on Amazon.com's best-seller list, is unable to speak and barely able to move, having been born with a still undiagnosed illness. He composed the poems and thoughts in Kiss of God: The Wisdom of a Silent Child by tapping on a primitive letter board. Ball's tenaciously loving parents read him literature and played him music from the time he was still an infant; by age 9, he was testing at a 12th-grade reading level. Particularly partial to Tolstoy, Ball offers musings that are often similarly elliptical: "I hope to gather thinkers...