He has since sold Wonkette, shut down Oddjack, and folded Defamer into Gawker proper, as a kind of Letter from Los Angeles.

NEWYORKER: Search and Destroy

To Cowper, a letter was a kind of serendipitous conversation, like a casual walk, an unpremeditated thing which only stopped when the appointed end had been reached.

ECONOMIST: English letters

Earlier this year, Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Bush, a kind of religious and political lecture.

NPR: Iranian Analysts Urge U.S. to Look Past Rhetoric

Did you see anything in the letter that you would characterize as any kind of possible opening to the standoff that this seems to be...

NPR: Week in Review: NSA Surveillance, Hayden, Tax Cuts

The as-yet unnamed, all-English channel will be the first of its kind, ABC News President Ben Sherwood said in a letter to his staff.

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Scientists at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire, working on a kind of wheat which they say would need less pesticide and bring other benefits have written an open letter to protestors who are determined to try to close down the site where the crops are going to be grown.

BBC: GM researcher: 'Please don't destroy our crop'

On Sept. 22, The Pink Sheet, a medical trade publication, reported the FDA had said that Pfizer received an "approvable letter" from the FDA. Such letters are not approvals but instead a kind of delay, saying that most of the data needed for approval are in but that additional steps need to be taken if the drug is to reach the market.

FORBES: Pfizer Plays A Guessing Game

As the Chandlers' letter witheringly points out, the Tribune Company consistently lags behind its media peers in the kind of things that investors find important: its share price, its revenues and its profits.

ECONOMIST: Newspapers