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Each year come June, I would receive two sheets of paper: a letter from the headmaster, and a form with seven numbered dotted lines and a blank at the top for one's name, date and homeroom teacher. The letter was really a rah-rah sort of message filled with inspiring, profound phrases on the importance of reading. In it were also a few handy suggestions on how to best squeeze in the time for reading during those fun-packed days of summer. One such tip urged us to schedule a half hour to read before going to bed each...
...write a letter of recommendation and say that so and so worked in my lab and didn't break anything expensive, and really accomplished something, I think that letter is taken seriously at the other end," says Gabrielse...
...prospect of a united Germany may be fueling the R.A.F.'s latest violence. A five-page letter to the press following the attack on Neusel decried the emergence of a "greater Germany pursuing the same goals and imperial plans as Nazi Fascism." The apparent anti-unification campaign follows the arrests of 10 R.A.F. operatives in East Germany in June. Three were released on legal technicalities, but six have been handed over to West German authorities, and one is in an East German prison. At a press conference in East Berlin, Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel confirmed that well- known terrorists...
...that of the 1970s, some 200 to 300 I.R.A. Provisionals are still striking at targets in Ulster, Britain and beyond in an effort to sway public opinion. Backed by 2,000 supporters who furnish hideouts and surveillance, the Provisionals are using a wide variety of weapons -- automatic rifles, pistols, letter bombs and mortars, as well as the terrorist's special, the Czechoslovak-made plastic explosive Semtex...
Among those signing the letter were Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), and Claiborne Pell...