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...letter sent to thousands of families in January, the Cambridge school district touted CRLS’s facilities and extracurricular activities, contrasting them with what they considered to be CCSC’s vague and smaller-scale promises...
...Although no unauthorized copies of the cast have surfaced, Morwood has drafted a letter asserting that the intellectual property rights to the bones, including casts, belong to the Jakarta Center for Archaeology, whose scientists are on his team. Morwood is seeking a senior figure from the center to sign the protest letter. By March 11, he'd found no one prepared to do so. The center's director, Toni Djubianto, says such action would only make matters worse. "It might light a fire," he says. "It might blow up." Unlike the fragile bones, the dispute is unlikely to be laid...
...emerged involving another U.S. ally: Bulgaria. On the evening that the Italians were shot, U.S. troops near the Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know who fired the shots or why and so opened fire at the Bulgarian patrol," the letter said. In Bulgaria, the incident sparked...
...Activists of all ages have been instrumental in affecting change in the political response to the HIV/AIDS crisis... Within the last few years, youth have succeeded in calling public and legislative attention to the global crisis,” the letter stated...
...President Thomas Jefferson wrote a short letter to a group of Baptist clergymen in Danbury, Conn. The clergymen, who wanted the President to proclaim a national day of Christian thanksgiving, had expressed their frustration with Jefferson’s refusal to do so in a prior letter. In his famous reply, Jefferson explained his refusal; he wrote that “religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God,” and furthermore, that the United States “‘legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting...