SANDERS THEATER at Harvard University (WIkipedia).

The potentially momentous showdown between The White House and America’s most prestigious university may have all been a mistake.

The New York Times is reporting that the e-mail letter sent to Harvard University last Friday making broad demands was actually “unauthorized.”

Sources told The Times that the letter – which demanded that the university yield to the government’s demands on hiring admissions and currriculum – “should never have been sent.”

In the aftermath of the letter, Harvard was threatened with losing millions of dollars in research grants and contracts with the federal government.
Harvard officials were willing to negotiate some issues, The Times reported, but the demands were considers so “extreme” that they were rejected.

What’s unclear is whether the leader was simply sent too early or was intended to circulate for discussion among White House staff.

Deportee moved from prison

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) returned from El Salvador on Friday, declaring that the imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “not only about one man,” reports The Associated Press.

A DEPORTEE to El Salvador has been moved from a maximum security prison (Shutterstock).

Van Hollen said in Washington, DC, that the issue was “about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States.”

Garcia, a Venezuelan native, was living in Maryland when he was taken into custody by immigration agents who deported him to Venezuela, where he was being held in a high security prison before being transferred to a detention center “with better conditions.”

But immigration officials quickly realized that he deportation was an error. However, the Trump Administration has ignored federal court rulings demanding his return to the U.S.
On his trip, Van Hollen met briefly with Abrego Garcia at a restaurant outside detention.

All FSU students wounded to recover

Full recoveries are expected for all six victims wounded during a mass shooting event at Florida State University.

United Press International is reporting that the two people killed were not students.
Speaking of the survivors, Dr. Brett Howard of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Hospital said, “They were all very brave. There’s the moment of shock … but they were all able to talk to us.”
The suspected gunman, Phoenix Ikner, was shot by police and remains hospitalized.

Weather: A very nice weekend

It’s a made-to-order weekend for our West Orange County cities, with daytime highs in the mid-to-low 70s. Saturday’s daytime high is predicted to be 74 with an overnight low of 53 amid sunny skies. Sunday with be similar at 75 (54) and mostly sunny. After that it’s partly cloudy skies and temps of 72 (55) on Monday and 68 (55) on Tuesday.

Great Thoughts

“The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest.”
– John D. Rockefeller, capitalist, philanthropist

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where Government has gone past its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
– Ronald Reagan, film actor and 40th President of the United States.