"The letter qualified for what was requested," said Bynum, who added that if the link between Gipp, Weeks and her daughter were established, "it was a medical situation".
But he acknowledged that he should have qualified his original letter to Mr. Waxman to reflect the possibility that his contacts involving Enron had been more extensive.
Many of the loans had been granted to poor people, who would not have qualified without signed letters from Ms. Madikizela-Mandela.
Here's how it's supposed to work: Under No Child Left Behind, all schools -- even the ones where the poor and minority students go -- are supposed to hire "highly qualified teachers". If a school hires teachers who don't meet the federal definition of "highly qualified," they send letters home to parents about their kids' substandard teachers and come up with a plan to fix it.
William Safire's rejoinder to Stephen Sondheim's letter hardly qualified as deconstruction (On Language: "Back to My Roots," May 24).
Modelled on the highly successful "teach first" drive to increase teacher numbers, it will see all newly qualified doctors receive a letter setting out the positive aspects of life as a GP, such as a close connection with patients.
It is not an answer to say that if all the blacks who are qualified according to the letter of the instrument were registered, the fraud would be cured.
"In other words, the DOJ and the court drew conclusions about the origins of the child's health problems based on presumption rather than qualified scientific evidence," the letter reads.
Asian Americans, the document showed, often were required to have higher standardized test scores on average than peers from other racial groups to qualify for a letter encouraging promising students to think about Harvard.
I'm not sure that "Secret Admirer Letter' qualifies as "bizarre," but you know what?
"Such an exemption would provide a significant financial advantage for qualifying businesses," the letter states, "addressing the barrier to entry created by capital constraints".
