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...transplanted, and the body politic is feeling the knife. Last November the U.S. Postal Service rode into town with an abrupt announcement: the post office was leaving the central site it had occupied for 80 years, preferably for a car-friendly location amid the strip malls and burger joints out of town. "They met with us on a Tuesday," says stunned city-council member Caron Cooper. "On Wednesday there was an ad in the paper soliciting bids for land." Dan Glick, a community activist, is peeved: "Those people gave us more say on whether the Elvis stamp would show...
...should at this point come clean and admit that Star Wars and I go way back. When I was four years old I had every single action figure, every ship, every model, every Burger King glass, and an authentic Darth Vader Halloween costume (in fact, the one glaring gap in my collection was the Imperial Walker from the Hoth segment of Empire Strikes Back--but I seem to have recovered). My relatives put themselves through unspeakable torments trying to locate the newest Star Wars toy or trinket, as they are wont to remind me, and my oldest friends still harangue...
...Burger said Yale TAs are more inclined to strike than Harvard TFs because they must teach Yale undergraduates. That might cause anyone to go on strike, he quipped...
Benjamin F. Burger, a fourth-year student in government at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said that Harvard TFs are fairly well paid, so "there doesn't seem to be a lot of discontent for that reason alone...
Money is not the only reason Harvard has not experienced a similar strike, Burger said...