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Man Writes Letters To 108 People — Longhand, By Snail Mail

Matthew McDonald

Tim Johnson, a former newspaper reporter who lives in Vermont, got tired of his various social media outlets, and decided to look up old friends and acquaintances (using the Internet) and then write and send each of them an old-fashioned letter. He describes in the column the people he contacted, what he wrote, why, and how many of them responded.

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GOP Tax Bill Might Stop Harvard From Punishing Single-Sex Club Members

Matthew McDonald

Harvard College is putting into effect a policy punishing undergraduates who belong to single-sex clubs, but a 33-year-old Harvard alumna who is a member of Congress is pushing for a measure in the GOP tax bill that would prevent such punishment. It's not clear if the language in the bill would affect Harvard, or if it will survive into the final version of the bill.

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