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Pink paper and red ink is all it takes to throw your life into turmoil, as Don Johnston, played by Bill Murray, learns in the nostalgic and witty drama “Broken Flowers.” A mysterious letter arrives in this confirmed bachelor’s mailbox and tells him he has a son by an anonymous woman who claims to have dated him 20 years earlier. Urged on by his neighbor Winston, a detective enthusiast played with appealing earnestness by Jeffrey Wright, Don embarks on a cross-country journey to visit his old flames and find...
Conrad K. Harper had an urgent letter to deliver last month, so naturally, he turned to FedEx. “Priority Overnight,” he recalls. “Gets it there on time...
...letter, Harper’s adieu to the Harvard Corporation, awoke the University from summer’s lull and added an intriguing postscript to the drama of last semester. “I guess you can say it arrived,” he said in an interview this week...
Indeed, the letter arrived—on time—at Massachusetts Hall the following morning, setting off a flurry of commotion among Harper’s suddenly former colleagues on the board. In the two weeks before the resignation would be officially announced, James R. Houghton ’56 and Robert E. Rubin ’60 tried repeatedly to change Harper’s mind, an individual familiar with the board’s discussions said. But their attempts were to no avail...
Ogletree had prepared a statement—along with Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the African and African American studies department—calling on University President Lawrence H. Summers to release Harper’s letter before the president did so himself on Monday...