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...weeks ago, over 100 professors signed a letter to University administrators expressing concerns about the library’s diminishing acquisitions. The letter was addressed to University President Drew G. Faust, Provost Steven E. Hyman and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith, who were all in attendance yesterday...
...brief period in the 1830s before they successfully rebelled through mass dissent in 1841. Thirty-five years later, an English casketmaker named William Banting became famous by pioneering the concept of a low-carbohydrate diet, which helped him lose 50 lb. He published his results in the 1864 "Letter on Corpulence," and the plan became so popular that banting became a synonym for dieting across Britain. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...network of 25,000 committed individuals in over 60 countries providing medical care to people are threatened by violence, catastrophes, and epidemics. Help Doctors Without Borders continue its work by giving someone an e-card or a Tribute Contribution in his or her honor. The person will receive a letter of his or her honorary contribution to the cause, and you will get a tax break for the philanthropic present...
...Learned of her husband's infidelity in January 2009, when she discovered a letter he had sent to his Argentine lover, María Belén Chapur. Her demands that he cut ties with the woman went ignored; she later said revelations of his infamous trip to Argentina in June were like "punches to the gut." In August, she moved out of the governor's mansion with her children to the couple's home on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina...
...dangerous object at Berlusconi. Five years ago, Roberto Dal Bosco was visiting the historic Piazza Navona when he happened upon a small crowd gathered around the Prime Minister on an afternoon stroll. Dal Bosco threw his tripod at Berlusconi, who suffered minor shoulder injuries. But after receiving a letter of apology, Berlusconi publicly forgave his attacker...