Word: letters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gordo,” begins a hurried letter to his freshman year roommate Marvin A. Gordon ’58, “as you know, we are running low on”—and here, he drew a picture of a toilet paper roll—“Unless you’d like to wipe your rectum with dollar bills, you might well let me know when the next 50 cents is coming, or buy the stuff yourself...
...like the Scarlet Letter era,” she said. “It was the worst thing that could happen...
...Devotion and apology in a single sentence. That's a love letter for the ages...
...make light of turbulence. As the Karmapa, Tibetan Buddhism's third-ranking personage, he has carried the immeasurable burden of his people's expectations, supernatural and worldly, since he was first recognized at age 7 by a religious search party. The delegation was following the directions in a "prediction letter" left in a locket by the previous Karmapa when he died in 1981; it included Dorje's birth year, parents' names (Dondrub and Loga) and a location. According to followers of the Kagyu branch of Buddhism, the child persuaded his nomad parents to break camp early in order...
...looked at the letter, and she was right. I've worked at that community hospital for 20 years, and they finally did what so many of us in medicine have been thinking about doing for so long - they said, "No." They responded to yet another insurance-company rate decrease by refusing to accept it altogether. Hospitals can't afford to pay their nurses, buy medicines or give personal attention to each patient, if they're expected to treat so many, so fast, just to break even. Good for them, I thought. But, then, I looked at Mattie, and I looked...