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...Other letters range from gripes about Jar Jar Binks to complaints about commercialization. A pediatrician recently wrote an open letter on Salon.com taking issue with Lucas's newest fast food tie-ins, an Indy Whopper and a Snickers Adventure bar with coconut and chai. "Wouldn't Indy, now a senior citizen, have more than just a little bump in his cholesterol if he had scarfed down his namesake burger?" the doctor asks. "How could he be fit enough to chase down ancient relics while dodging boulders and outwitting Nazis...
...helpful advice, however, none of these letter writers ask one key question: George, isn't it time to move on? Don't you have anything else left to do in your career besides recycling your old movie franchises? Which is where I come in. Herewith, my own open letter to George Lucas...
Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian verse as has been published in decades. It's also pertinent. The driest continent on earth is in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. Beginning in 2002 and spanning, at times, the breadth of the country, the dry spell has pushed farmers to the limits...
University President Drew G. Faust joined MIT President Susan Hockfield, a biologist, and University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson, a physicist, in co-authoring a letter to the legislature last month that underscored the need for funding to remain flexible as research develops...
...letter, which the presidents wrote as co-chairs of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Collaborative, emphasized that the state should take a “less prescriptive approach to programs and investments” in order to “achieve the necessary coordination and flexibility...