Word: letters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When [parents] get a letter asking for money,they can send a letter back saying, 'No, and thisis why,'" said one Coalition member at a meetingto plan tabling in front of the Science Center."The next time they get a phone call, they cantell the person on the line, 'No, and this iswhy...
...December of 1995, Ryan came home from school one day to find the "good envelope" from Harvard. Jan was back in Philadelphia for several weeks of radiation treatment. She knew that the letter was going to come that day, and when she called that evening she tried to mask anticipation by starting a casual conversation about school. "I said, `Mom, I got into Harvard,' and then I heard the phone drop and she just started screaming. My aunt said that she went around the hotel and told everyone in the lobby that her son was going to Harvard...
...December of 1995, Ryan came home from school one day to find the "good envelope" from Harvard. Jan was back in Philadelphia for several weeks of radiation treatment. She knew that the letter was going to come that day, and when she called that evening she tried to mask anticipation by starting a casual conversation about school. "I said, 'Mom, I got into Harvard,' and then I heard the phone drop and just started screaming. My aunt said that she went around the hotel and told everyone in the lobby that her son was going to Harvard...
...Pentagon sent a letter to HLS last fall claiming HLS policies should trigger a funding loss under the Solomon Amendment, but after explaining its policy to the Defense Department, HLS was let off the hook, Donahue said...
Alas, the envelope contained nothing more than a letter from Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles kindly beseeching members of the Class of '99 to give to the Senior Gift. Referring to himself eruditely as a "mendicant" (reminding us, perhaps, of our imminent admission to the company of learned and privileged Harvard-educated men and women), Knowles asked seniors to listen intently when cornered this week by classmates looking to get into our wallets...