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Well, he has demonstrated: Integrity , reasonably strong written skills , some balls and of course "thinking outside the box".



Odd ones always get the attention of onlookers. The letter is honest and straight forward, which itself is enough to get the attention of the readers.

Just today i read one of my colleague's recommendation letter for Masters graduate Program. The letter was full of team player, hard worker bullshit :). (I later suggested her to add in some actual evidence to support her claims)


...but not the ability to work a spell checker.




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