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...cheap compared with that of other countries. Mailing a letter in West Germany, for example, costs 48 cents, while the price is 45 cents in Japan and 33 cents in Britain. Postal officials point out that the price of a first-class stamp, after inflation is taken into account, is about the same as it was in 1971. "The 25 cents stamp is still a bargain," says Frank, "but only if service is good...
Stamp prices are being driven up by the Postal Service's labor costs, which account for 85% of its spending. Critics fault Tisch for not driving a tough enough bargain in negotiations last year with the unions representing 634,000 postal employees. Under the new contract, the average salary of those workers who are covered -- about $25,200 last year -- will rise some 7% by November 1990, not including cost-of-living adjustments. Tisch could have insisted that more of the work force consist of lower-paid, part-time employees. Instead, the Postal Service left in place guarantees that...
Brinkley's lively account fades out with Roosevelt's death. Postwar Washington, he observes, was the only major capital "on the winning side, or any side, to survive without a scratch." Psychologically, however, it was altered almost beyond recognition. Within a generation, the unthinkable would be commonplace in D.C.: desegregation, Medicare, a 50-state union, peace marches, feminism. Brinkley is uniquely qualified to narrate the causes of that change. After all, in the early 1940s, what title could have been more incomprehensible than that of TV network anchorman...
...disturbed by the deficient account of Daryl Bem's talk entitled "Raising Feminist Children in a Sexist World" as reported by a Crimson writer in the March 16th issue. The talk was organized and sponsored by The William James Society, Harvard's undergraduate psychology organization...
...sometimes faulted for wooden characterizations, but here he is believable and chilling as he takes on the pathology of a large, mutually destructive family. The whodunit puzzle at the & book's core is unusually good, and its solution, like those the late Ross Macdonald used to devise, takes into account wounds dealt out and suffered decades before...