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...Berj Manoukian retired from his 34-year stint as a postal carrier to become a part-time attendant at the Fogg Art Museum...
After reading Emily Carrier's profoundly insightful article, "Black First-Years Prefer Quad Houses" (March 9, 1994), I felt in necessary to express my thanks for your enlightening and informing me about the state of racial diversity at Harvard...
...Tailhook Association, the Navy severed all ties with it and warned service members away from the 1993 convention, which in any case was a tea party. Tailhook's main legacy may be to have shamed the Navy into its decision last year to permit women on combat ships. The carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower is already being reoutfitted to take aboard the first of them. "It's largely due to the Tailhook embarrassment," says Northwestern University professor Charles Moskos, a military sociologist. As with a lot of drunken festivities, maybe the headache that followed will stay in memory more sharply than...
...satisfied? No. Is any addict ever satisfied? I needed to know that if I bankrupted my entire family, we could all fly free -- or get upgrades at least -- to debtors' prison. So I hooked my telephone up to another carrier's Frequent Flyer program. That didn't help my principal account at all, but it did mean that I got five miles for every phone dollar spent; so if I called Zaire every day for a week -- for 177 straight weeks -- I could get a free ticket to Detroit. Indeed, if I called a friend in Japan for 40 minutes...
...miles right, in fact, I need never leave the plane. As soon as I embark, I can buy things -- key chains, duty-free perfumes, souvenirs and razors -- and put them on my credit card. Then I can acquire more goods on the Airfone, charged to my special phone carrier. By the time I land, I might have earned enough miles to get the next leg free. I can even earn tickets while six miles high! (Vertical miles don't count, however, and horizontal ones are not what they seem: the Frequent Flyer is the only bird of prey that flies...