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WHILE YOU WERE away this summer, Harvard libraries quietly raised their photocopying price from a nickel to a dime. Five cents, they claim, simply was not enough to compensate for the wear and tear that xeroxing causes the University's collection. And since prices haven't been raised since the '60s, it was time for a change...
...which people insert a card with photocopy credit on it into the copier in place of coins--is clearly warranted, especially in light of the price hike. In exchange for the 100 percent increase in cost, users deserve something in return. Why not eliminate the need to drop a dime into the machine before making each copy...
...photographer, Puttnam never attended college or film school. He worked as a talent agent for photographers and directors between 1966 and 1968. Then, joining with Agent Sandy Lieberson, he produced his first feature film, Melody. Since then, Puttnam has made 28 pictures, including documentaries (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), fast-paced sagas (Midnight Express and The Killing Fields) and lyrical features (Local Hero...
Lewis says the paper "is tending to underplaythe thing" because of the prominent magazinearticle, and the University's decision to portraythe 350th--unlike the 300th--as an event withoutgreat reverberations beyond Harvard Yard. "Ourproblem is figuring out how we can report thisseriously without covering every nickle and dime,"he says...
...until, to meet the revenue needs of World War II, the top rate on the highest incomes was a confiscatory 94%. Among those offended: a movie actor named Ronald Reagan who had just begun to earn big bucks. His anger at discovering that he could keep less than a dime of each additional dollar he earned played a part in his postwar conversion from New Deal Democrat to conservative Republican...