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Nevertheless, both celebrities' letters fit into the same underlying model, as did those of Karl Marx, Robert E. Lee, Marcel Proust - and presumably a horde of unfamous letter-writers as well. "I really wish we could have gotten some ordinary people," says Dean. "But unfortunately, their letters are rarely preserved in a comprehensive way. Nobody cares about the letters of Joe Schmo who lived in 1873." (See the 100 best novels of all time...
...fresh round of sanctions against Tehran. While the U.S. and U.N. have sanctions in place against the Iranian finance sector as well as travel and trade restrictions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Obama Administration was investigating how to "broaden and deepen" the measures, while Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted the menu of potential punishments was a "pretty rich list to pick from" - including the suspension of investments in the Iranian oil and gas industries and tighter restrictions on Iranian banks...
...hard to understand how a major figure like Ted could emerge from such a personal disaster, give such a thoroughly unconvincing explanation, and yet continue to pitch for high office. In the U.K. he'd have been finished, no matter how personable he and his brothers might have been. Robert F. Birkett, DRINKSTONE GREEN, ENGLAND...
...same time, volunteers have been trying to improve Wikipedia's trustworthiness, which has been sullied by a few defamatory hoaxes - most notably, one involving the journalist John Seigenthaler, whose Wikipedia entry falsely stated that he'd been a suspect in the John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy assassinations. They recently instituted a major change, imposing a layer of editorial control on entries about living people. In the past, only articles on high-profile subjects like Barack Obama were protected from anonymous revisions. Under the new plan, people can freely alter Wikipedia articles on, say, their local officials or company...
...that further sanctions may be in order if Iran does not come clean about the secret facility and other older questions about Tehran's nuclear program. "The Iranians are in a very bad spot now because of this deception, in terms of all of the great powers," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News on Sunday...