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...yeah, many of them also began signing autographs and taking photos all around MSG, upon fan request. My buddy Juan hilariously decided to fall in the impromptu line and get the dirty basketball we were playing with prior to the Draft signed by what later turned out to be Dwight Howard’s younger brother. Heck, even the elder Mr. Howard, Dwight’s dad, inexplicably took photos and signed programs himself...
...claim, Harvard said it would pursue arbitration even if its request for class-action status is denied...
...NATO responds with an offer of a small number of troops to be sent around September. Karzai pleads for a more immediate deployment. Britain and the U.S. request deployment of NATO's new rapid-reaction force created precisely for such contingencies. France's President Jacques Chirac vetoes it, saying the force should not be used...
...amazed. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, one of the protesters' main punching bags?they distributed inflatable bludgeons imprinted with his caricature?was compelled to praise the march as "harmonious, with a touch of joyousness." The day after the march, a group of pro-democracy legislators asked Tung to request Beijing to reverse its decision in April to nix direct elections for the Chief Executive post and all the seats in the territory's Legislative Council. (Tung simply said he would have a meeting with the legislators to discuss the issue.) David Chu, a lawmaker from the pro-Beijing Progressive Alliance...
Jefferson answered virtually every letter he received, including screeds from lunatics and pleas from strangers for money. In particular he could not resist a request for advice. When a young student wrote him seeking some suggested reading, Jefferson picked up a regular correspondence with the youth and even personally hunted bookshops for texts for him. The student, William Munford, turned out to be a scoundrel who would spread political gossip about Jefferson. But historians consider this letter from the then Vice President to Munford to be essential Jefferson: a statement of his fundamental optimism, his faith in the possibility...