41.   Rather than use the letters as the basis for a play, Cyr has chosen to present them as a staged reading.

42.   Rep. Peter Torkildsen, a Danvers Republican, dismissed the letter as a political statement.

43.   Ravellette keeps that letter as a reminder that some people can look past his disability.

44.   Several trustees said Friday that they saw the letter as inappropriate.

45.   She identified herself in the letter as having a Ph.D. degree, which she acknowledged Wednesday she does not have.

46.   She said she wrote her letter as a favor to Larry Robbins, who is a golfing buddy of her husband, LeRoy.

47.   Skeptics say many of them probably learned to associate colors with letters as toddlers, from activities like playing with refrigerator magnets.

48.   So it would be easy to dismiss this collection of largely personal letters as leftovers.

49.   Some lawmakers, however, took the letter as a poorly timed threat.

50.   Some opponents of the project took the letter as a glimmer of hope in their campaign to block the retailer.