Dear LeBron:
Cordial greetings. I am writing to you at this time for many important reasons which I pray that you’re able to relate to. First, I want to congratulate you for your decision to return home to Cleveland because it was one of the most honorable and noble moments in the history of American sports. Actually, your decision and reasons for returning home to Cleveland transcended sports altogether and has reached into the archives of African American history on a social, political, and economic level that no other athlete has dared to touch in many years. Outside of Ali’s stand against being drafted into the military nothing comes remotely close.
Surely the African American community and American nation as a whole is in dire need of such leadership. Naturally there will be...
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Dear Peter,
It was a privilege and an honor to be a guest on your radio show today. I’ve been a fan of yours for more than five years; you were one of the reasons I discovered Austrian economics (and, in turn, Bitcoin), and your eloquent explanation of consumption vs. production in an economy has guided my outlook of the world ever since. So thank you sincerely for what you’ve taught me, and for the opportunity to appear on your show. It was a really special moment for me.
While we had some valuable discussion today, I felt a follow-up was appropriate to better articulate my points. You’re right to be highly skeptical of such a new technology and monetary system, but please take the time to ensure your skepticism doesn’t blind you from what I humbly suggest is one of the most...
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Dear Premier Clark,
Re: An Open Letter on a New Water Sustainability Act for BC
The purpose of this letter is to express our support for the development of a new Water Sustainability Act for BC.
The Real Estate Foundation supports real estate and land use practices that contribute to resilient, healthy communities and natural systems. We provide grants and information to non-profit organizations working to enable transformational change in communities throughout British Columbia. Since 1988, the Foundation has invested over $62 million in land use projects in over 100 BC communities. Freshwater sustainability is one of our three grant making priorities.
In fulfilling the Foundation's mandate, we have the opportunity to work with hundreds of groups throughout the province—non-...
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Dear Future Me,
I see you smiling, sitting so peacefully; you are simply in awe. You're looking at me, the younger, and more naive, more determined, more self-righteous self; you have nothing but love and gratitude for me. You watch me cry on my living room floor, completely bored and unmotivated by life. You see that I am outraged at how stuck I feel. You watch me consumed by more depression tied to how large my body has become; you see me struggle daily. You see the pain I carry around in my heart.
You see my struggle, you see me have momentary outbursts and cry in fits of rage; and you see that I make it through. You see that I'm OK. My pain, my struggles, my issues are not what define me. You see that I make it through this rough patch, and you know that I come out stronger,...
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Dear Mr Modi,
Congratulations on your victory!
You’ve made Indians – and ethnically-Indian foreigners like myself – hopeful. Whether we initially wished to see you in power or not, there’s something to be celebrated about this new India, where a tea-seller could rise to become the Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy. You’ve injected belief that there will be a dramatic change from the incumbent, political dynasties of the past. The youth seems enthused. Plus, I’m encouraged to see 25% of your cabinet is female.
I’m being a bit presumptuous here, but I’d like to speak on behalf of the women of India to you, for a minute.
Sir, you’ve made some great advances in Gujarat. I’m excited to see how the rest of India can benefit from your leadership. I’m from Singapore,...
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Dear Fellow Apple Shareholders,
Over the course of my long career as an investor and as Chairman of Icahn Enterprises, our best performing investments result from opportunities that we like to call "no brainers." Recent examples of such “no brainers” have been our investments in Netflix, Hain Celestial, Chesapeake, Forest Labs and Herbalife, just to name a few. In our opinion, a great example of a “no brainer” in today’s market is Apple. The S...
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Dear Mrs. Bush,
I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House.
In one way, it's a very appealing invitation. The idea of speaking at a festival attended by 85,000 people is inspiring! The possibility of finding new readers is exciting for a poet in personal terms, and in terms of the desire that poetry serve its constituents--all of us who need the pleasure, and the inner and outer news, it delivers.
And the concept of a community of readers and writers has long been dear to my heart. As a professor of creative writing in the graduate school of a major university, I have had the chance to be a...
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Dear Governor Oshiomhole:
I will like to congratulate you on your July 14 election victory and successful swearing-in ceremony for a second term as the Governor of Edo State on Monday, November 12, 2012. The Edo people have given you the mandate to continue the infrastructural development projects you started during your first term and they expect nothing less in your second term.
As an Edolite, I am writing to you to express my opinion and expectations for your second term’s administration. In one of your press interviews on assumption of office in 2008, you said “But in Edo State we are going to evolve a government that will be led by the people, by which we mean a bottom up approach in policy formulation, because there are so many things/challenges confronting our people. So the...
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Dear Mr. Secretary:
The Coalition for Student Achievement, representing organizations committed to dramatically improving student achievement, believes that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen our economy by improving our schools. If implemented well, these reforms will pay dividends for decades to come in the form of stronger schools, more effective teachers, and a better-educated citizenry and workforce.
The need for reform is clear and urgent. Nearly a third of all American students—approximately 1.2 million each year—do not graduate from high school on time and another third are not prepared for college. Among minority students the problem is even more severe, with nearly 50 percent of African-American and...
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Dear Sir,
I am writing on behalf of the deprived, dehumanized, hapless and traumatized poor people of Nigeria to express to you their disgruntled impressions about your government. Sir, your (s)election or ascendancy to the presidency of a castrated nation was by providence. Personally, I believe you ought to pounce on that privilege to make history. It has been argued as well in some quarters that you are a child of circumstances; that your political and academic nomenclatures do not commensurate with the mundane position you currently hold. I stand to disagree with your critics including this writer that nothing good can come out of your government. I strongly believe you still have ample time to act presidential. History of the world is very repetitious. And history taught us that...
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