But to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, a thing is not necessarily true because a brand dies for it, so here are some portions of his letter and some of our observations from a loyalty and engagement perspective.

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Sony sent a long(ish) letter to a Congressional subcommittee yesterday ( view it here), but it is still rather lacking on specific advice.

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Tomorrow is also a red letter day for another reason - explained here in another, somewhat less impassioned letter from Carwyn Jones, this time to the Deputy First Minister.

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"It is truly our pleasure having you here as our guest, " read a friendly letter, waiting for me at my seat in the tiered media center, signed by the chairman of the club's media committee.

WSJ: The Green Machine | John Paul Newport on the Masters

Many scientists, physicists in particular, now upload drafts of their papers into public archives paid for by networks of universities for the general good. (The most popular is known as arXiv, the middle letter being a Greek chi.) Here, manuscripts are subject to a ruthless process of open peer review, rather than the secret sort traditional publishers employ.

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Among the handful of documents here from the period of World War II, a section of the archives still closed to scholars, is a 1942 letter from Jewish inmates of an Italian concentration camp, thanking Pope Pius XII for his support and gifts of clothing.

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