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...After graduation, Kennedy received a letter inviting him to try out for the Green Bay Packers (“He used that letter whenever he campaigned in Wisconsin,” Clymer, a former Crimson president, recalls in an interview). But as the story goes, Kennedy famously turned down the offer in favor of “another contact sport—politics...
...paternal approach”—not seeking solely to punish them, according to Barbara Walsh. In the aftermath of an Aug. 8, 2008 incident in which HUPD officers confronted a young black man attempting to remove a lock from his own bicycle, Walsh wrote a firmly-worded letter to the district attorney of Boston to voice his concern about the growing disconnect between Harvard police and students, according to his daughter. “He used to walk the Yard, and he would know students by name...but the police and students no longer know each other...
Standing in front of a packed Science Center lecture hall last night, Army First Lieutenant Daniel Choi burned the letter he received from the U.S. Army telling him he must leave the military after publicly coming out as gay on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” in March. Since receiving the notification from the Army, Choi has made it his mission to attack the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on a “moral basis...
Gingrich, Newt • PAC of mistakenly chooses pornographer to receive its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year Award - look, here's the letter...
...part of the surrender, Kandahar's police chief gave Mullah A a letter of protection. But the would-be ex-guerrilla fighter soon realized the paper was worthless. Like so many other Taliban who tried to lay down arms, the commander had a complex history, interwoven with tribal rivalries and greed. The CIA was offering $100,000 for the return of Stinger antiaircraft missiles, and the local intelligence chief, who belongs to the enemy Achakzai tribe (allied to President Hamid Karzai's Popalzai tribe), was convinced that he could make good money if he shook down Mullah...