Word: mail
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Have you gotten feedback from any of the men who were written about? Dubelman: I got a lot of Facebook messages from old boyfriends who said, "The book's great - I'm not that guy, am I?" Davilman: Liz got an e-mail from a guy I wrote about in the book. He asked to get in contact with me. And I said yes because we didn't end on terrible terms. Dubelman: I'm not 100% sure he knew he was the guy in the book. Davilman: He did not know! So I wrote him back and I said...
Harvard has not escaped the recession. President Faust sent an e-mail last Wednesday to the Harvard community detailing just how grim the state of the endowment is. To compensate for the loss of at least $8 billion, Harvard has understandably chosen to cut down its staff. While it is unfortunate that some may lose their jobs due to the impending cuts, Harvard must be fiscally responsible and carefully define its priorities in such times...
...most widely publicized vigilante campaign has emerged across the Texas border in Ciudad Juarez, which has become Mexico's deadliest city with 1,600 murders last year. A self-styled Juarez Citizens' Command sent an e-mail to local media in January saying it will give the government until July 5 to restore order or execute one criminal a day. Signed by "Comandante Abraham," the group claims it is financed by local businessmen, and includes university students, entrepreneurs and professionals in its ranks. It offers to cooperate with military intelligence and says it supports the government, but argues that...
...chain e-mail of unknown origin soon began making its way into Catholic inboxes, warning of an imminent threat to the anti-abortion cause. "For those of you who do not know," it read, "the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is set to be signed if Congress passes it on January 21-22 of 2009. The FOCA is the next sick chapter in the book of abortion." The e-mail urged Catholics to say a novena - a devotion of dedicated prayer for nine successive days - beginning on Jan. 11 and ending the day prior to Inauguration Day. (See pictures...
...While the USCCB's literature about FOCA has been generally accurate, the chain e-mail has disseminated a number of false claims, including warnings that the proposal would force Catholic hospitals to shut down and lead to at least 100,000 more abortions each year. Some versions of the e-mail even claimed that FOCA could "result in a future amendment that would force women by law to have abortions in certain situations - and even regulate how many children women are allowed to have...