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...polls, and last week, began his first television ads. But the third-quarter number will be closely watched to see whether his campaign has any real claim to viability. Word in Republican circles is that McCain got some boost with a powerful and intensely personal fund-raising letter he sent out in July that bluntly addressed his campaign's dire situation. "I'm sitting here at 12:33 a.m. at my desk - all alone, writing you this letter," it began. "My wife Cindy has already turned in for the night, and I last spoke with my campaign advisers about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Reckoning on Campaign Cash | 9/30/2007 | See Source »

...have time to grow up. They don't. It makes no sense to me." They do have time to back out, though, since their verbal pledges to attend a school are not official until, at the earliest, the fall of senior year, when a recruit signs a "National Letter of Intent" with a college. Both player and coach can break the bond before then--a move known as decommitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courting Eighth-Graders | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...letter to the Harvard community last week, Faust mentioned several times her desire “to work to become a university known more for bridges and less for walls...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust to Convene Committee on Social Sciences | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...start of classes signaled the official beginning of fall semester, as the undergraduate population “set off on one of life’s great adventures,” to quote eight of the many, many words in University President Drew G. Faust’s welcome letter to the community last week. And while Faust’s gargantuan letter might have sent some running for the hills, FM went in search of past presidential letters to see how Faust’s latest e-novel stacks up. Faust: 1,822 words Beginning with a romanticized view...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Which Harvard President Has a Way with Words? | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

Clearly nervous when asked to spell his name, Shapley slowly said "M...E...R...R...I....L" punctuating each letter with a swallow. He had left school at eight years old to join his father's construction crew, he said, and works as a framer in booming southeastern Utah, building townhouses for retirees and outlet malls for tourists. Like most FLDS members, he was not accustomed to conversation with strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exiled Children of Utah | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

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