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Thompson's stories, on the other hand, have not always been so friendly. In 1985, while covering defense for the Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram, he won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering helicopter design flaws that had been ignored for more than a decade, resulting in the death of some 250 soldiers. His picture ran in TIME: "It was a high point for my parents...
...Professor of Astronomy Robert P.Kirshner '70 was attending a conference in Italywhen he received an urgent telegram telling him toreturn home immediately...
This year, on April 1, Kirshner received astrangely familiar telegram. This one, like thelast, informed him to a supernova occurring in theM-51 galaxy. But Kirshner didn...
...State Department, while attempting to appear sensitive, may not want a new precedent set or a new category of "cultural asylum" established. In an ambivalently worded telegram to the presiding judge in Portland, the State Department declared that its latest reports indicate that female circumcision is practiced in more than half of Nigeria; still, it said, while the girls might be cut, "that is not an inevitable consequence." The telegram added that if Oluloro was deported, she did not have to live where mutilation remains the custom...
...fooled. Tommy Lee Jones is a no-nonsense, macho actor who takes his work very seriously, refuses to bullshit and is not afraid to speak his mind. Measuring his words and punctuating them with long pauses, Jones speaks like a telegram. His monotoned voice and alarming brevity find a paradoxical balance between supercilious, down home rudeness and overly reverent attentiveness...