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...biggest negative for Harvard coming out of this weekend was its three-point shooting. The Crimson shot a meager 15 percent from downtown in both games combined...
...peasants' cries have reached the castle, though it's questionable whether they've been heard. On a National Public Radio call-in program, a ticked-off citizen of Castine, Maine, (whose downtown P.O. was spared last year after cbs's This Morning took up its cause) chewed out Postmaster General Marvin Runyon: "Doesn't the Postal Service have some kind of obligation not to rip small communities apart?" Runyon, a former auto-company executive, responded with executive generalities concerning aging buildings and population growth, then effectively reversed himself. "It is not our business to be closing down small post offices...
...Jesus, a popular bumper sticker declares, THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SEE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT YOU SURE DO HEAR A LOT. And the place in Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward franchised sprawl, is a kind of communal hitching post...
...Mayor Terry Overmyer of Fremont, Ohio, who has been battling the Postal Service for two years in hopes of quieting the giant sucking sound of outlying megamalls and superstores. "They wanted to move our post office out by the Wal-Mart. We offered them whole city blocks downtown, but they just ignored...
...poll's results and the statements of postal officials bear out Cooper's cynicism. Though the survey found that a majority of residents want to keep their post office downtown (including 79% of the senior citizens, who tend to walk there), postal spokesman Robin Wright dismisses the stay-putters as "emotional" and says the poll "is a private kind of deal" to "help us with our strategy." An internal Postal Service document makes this "strategy" as plain as bureaucratic doublespeak can be: "Provide a clearer identification of the 'real' underlying concerns by the antimove advocates, along with compensatory responses designed...