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...which have become expensive to repair and update. Clearly, the savings weren't enough. And 2009 doesn't look much better. "We expect the new fiscal year to be another difficult one for the Postal Service and the entire mailing industry," Postmaster General John Potter told the Postal Service Board of Governors at their meeting in November. Officials anticipate a further mail volume decrease of 8 billion pieces in 2009 - almost matching the 2008 plunge...
...involved with a very wealthy man, and I was in my early 30s. I was surprised, when we broke up, at the reaction of my friends. I broke up with him. My friends, who were all independent, employed, sophisticated women, were not particularly supportive. Not across the board, but they were all kind of like, "He treats you so well, and he's so rich. What are you doing?" It was just amazing to see these very sophisticated, independent women kind of reduced to something out of a Jane Austen novel. (See pictures of Those Things Money...
...secured their places is continuing as planned. But all the attention of the day has been focused on the drama of Burris' rejection from the Hill and the other elephant not in the room, Al Franken, whose squeaker victory by 225 votes was certified Monday by the Minnesota Canvassing Board (though Franken is still ensnarled by legal challenges from GOP incumbent Norm Coleman). "The Democratic Party is now running all three rings of the governmental circus, and a clown act has appeared in one of the rings," says Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "This...
...with the Franken-Coleman contest now likely to be drawn out even further, the freshman class may not be complete for some time. "The actions today by the canvassing board are but the first step in what, unfortunately, will now have to be a longer process," Coleman said Monday. "This process isn't at the end; it is now just at the beginning." The same could be said for the new Senate, which, despite Obama's claims of postpartisan cooperation, is looking a lot like the old dysfunctional...
...content thought to ridicule the King. The video-sharing website was eventually unblocked after the offending clips had been purged from the system. (In 1999 the Hollywood film Anna and the King, a remake of The King and I, was banned from Thailand by the country's censorship board on the grounds that it mocked the monarchy...