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-Opinion– Your story "Student Loans Caught in Dispute" (U.S. News, Sept. 17) overstates an issue between Sallie Mae and the Education Department. You correctly report that we protested the department’s sole sourcing of a loan-servicing contract, a contract we would like at least the opportunity to bid. That protest is the first step in a process we will work through with the appropriate parties at the department and other federal agencies. We haven’t even begun those discussions, yet your newspaper alleges a disagreement so consequential as to threaten loan delivery.