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...time, once again, for yet another rate increase from the U.S. Postal Service. Just four short months after hiking up the cost of a first-class stamp, the financial wizards over at the soon-to-be-vacated Postmaster General?s office have discovered that, whoops, that one-cent increase isn?t going to keep them from confronting $2 billion in losses...
...year and would climb to $3 billion annually within five years; by comparison, Sachs says total annual U.S. aid to sub-Saharan African during the 1990s averaged just $150 million. But, Sachs points out, America's gross national product is now $10 trillion. So "each billion means one cent out of every $100 that America earns each year. We're advocating two cents to save 5 million lives." Given the stakes, it seems a small price to pay indeed...
...responsible for what happened owe nothing to people it didn't happen to. It's a fact, pure and simple, that no living African American has ever been the slave of a living white American!" "Even Southerners whose families owned slaves through the Civil War owe nobody a cent," insisted a man from Atlanta. "It's not their fault their ancestors were slave owners." Looking at the issue from another angle, a Texas reader judged, "I don't imagine Southerners could collect reparations for the property the Yankees took during the war, and we shouldn't try. Since...
...hand, his flair for the visual aesthetic has never been better. Skyline Cruisers easily matches the blockbuster Hollywood action films in scope and grandeur; none of the cost-cutting so common in Hong Kong productions is to be found here. Yip gets the most visually out of every cent in his large budget. The futuristic architecture of Kuala Lumpur is photographed to its best advantage, and it is a rare shot indeed that disappoints...
...Should five per cent appear too small / Be thankful I don’t take it all Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman”—The Beatles, “Taxman...