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...Harvard should use its endowment for the benefit of students, not for the benefit of the people who manage the endowment,” wrote 11 members of the Class of 1969 in a letter to Summers last week...
...University has steadfastly defended its compensation policy since alumni first began to voice their objections. In a rare open letter to the Harvard community last June, then-Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel, citing an internal study, said Harvard would have spent more than twice as much on external hedge funds to achieve the same returns as the University’s internal management company...
...recently aired a controversial movie on Islam's alleged abuse of women, a Muslim with suspected terrorist ties was arrested for the murder, touching off a religious backlash that reached all the way to Parliament. As one politician went into hiding after being marked for death in a letter pinned to van Gogh's body with a knife, the right-wing coalition government proposed closing radical mosques, ramping up monitoring of foreign imams and stripping suspected extremists of their Dutch passports. "There is way too much political correctness in the Netherlands, and now we're paying for it," says Geert...
Many of the authors she read, like Karl Barth (The Epistle to the Romans), pop up on the reading list of the Rev. John Ames, Gilead's narrator. Gilead is a lyrical and meditative story told in the form of a letter the ailing Ames, 76, a third-generation pastor in a small Iowa town, writes in 1956 to his young son. The letter lays out the family's history, including the exploits of his grandfather, an irascible firebrand who went west from Maine after having a vision of Christ urging him to help free the slaves...
When George W. Bush returned to the White House on the afternoon of Election Day, chief of staff Andrew Card presented him with a five-page handwritten letter of resignation from Attorney General John Ashcroft. The letter, written a few days earlier and sent quietly to the White House, was in stark contrast to Ashcroft's often brash style as the nation's top cop. The President, distracted by exit polls suggesting that he might be heading for defeat, absorbed the thrust of Ashcroft's missive, then put it aside and said he would deal with it later...