Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, shot a letter to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham this week, responding to what he termed an "anti-Northeast" attitude among the administration and some Republicans after comments by Mr. Abraham that grid improvements would have to be financed by urban electricity users.
A dozen colleagues shot off letters in solidarity.
Of course, one should not be light-hearted about someone's property being shot at – letter-boxes can be quite expensive – but it is difficult not to see in the war between Jones and her neighbours a perfect comic parable to illustrate the chasm of distrust and misunderstanding between town and country.
This week, Ivanhoe and Rio shot back a letter saying the agreement was not up for renegotiation.
His changes horrified Fitzgerald, who shot off a letter: To say I'm disillusioned is putting it mildly.
But then she made good with the protesters, shot off a letter to Mr. Singh and assured them of passing a Cabinet resolution on the matter.
Cianci's lawyer, Richard Egbert, shot off a letter to the United States Attorney, saying that Nocera had been "intimidated," and that Aiken's intolerable conduct had precipitated "a great deal of concern for the fairness of the process concerning Mayor Cianci".
When the University of Montana asked the James M. Cox Jr. Foundation for a donation, the foundation's vice president, James C. Kennedy, shot back a letter complaining about how Montanans treated "nonresident landowners" on land-use issues.
Within hours of the raid, Mr. Chalabi's lawyers had shot off a letter to the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, condemning what they called a "tawdry action" which they said was "committed by Iraqi policemen under the command of United States soldiers and several men who were identified as part of the F.B.I. and C.I.A".
She did, and the foam letter shot across the room and landed on the floor.
