Comments on: The Lady is a Champ http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/07/30/the-lady-is-a-champ/ Journalist - Middle East Commentator Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:05:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Erik http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/07/30/the-lady-is-a-champ/#comment-23168 Erik Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:48:29 +0000 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/07/30/the-lady-is-a-champ/#comment-23168 <i>When you listen to the tape of her on 911, it is clear that her interest was in protecting the safety of her community and looking out for a neighbor, not in vilifying anyone or being alarmist.</i> Yes. And now Gates has apparently bought Whalen flowers: <i><b>Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent a bouquet of flowers and a note to the woman whose 911 call led to his arrest earlier this month.</b> Wendy Murphy, lawyer and spokeswoman for Lucia Whalen, said yesterday that Gates had sent her client a bouquet of flowers as an “expression of gratitude.’’ Murphy said she believed it was a bouquet of tulips. The flowers came with a note from Gates, the contents of which Murphy would not disclose. Whalen “said that she really appreciated it,’’ Murphy said. “She’s been getting a lot of apologies and people have been saying nice things.’’</i> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/01/gates_sends_flowers_to_passerby_who_called_police/ Nice. Could beer and flowers be the key ingredient to solve some of the social strife in America? Could it be that simple? When you listen to the tape of her on 911, it is clear that her interest was in protecting the safety of her community and looking out for a neighbor, not in vilifying anyone or being alarmist.

Yes. And now Gates has apparently bought Whalen flowers:

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent a bouquet of flowers and a note to the woman whose 911 call led to his arrest earlier this month.

Wendy Murphy, lawyer and spokeswoman for Lucia Whalen, said yesterday that Gates had sent her client a bouquet of flowers as an “expression of gratitude.’’ Murphy said she believed it was a bouquet of tulips. The flowers came with a note from Gates, the contents of which Murphy would not disclose.

Whalen “said that she really appreciated it,’’ Murphy said. “She’s been getting a lot of apologies and people have been saying nice things.’’

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/01/gates_sends_flowers_to_passerby_who_called_police/

Nice.

Could beer and flowers be the key ingredient to solve some of the social strife in America? Could it be that simple?

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