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...misrepresented. Stamps like the ones you showed of the White House cat Socks are sometimes advertised as being rare or a great opportunity for investment. They are neither. They are printed in tiny countries at the request of the I.C.S., and only enough are used in the country of origin to qualify them as "genuine postally used." The block of nine Socks stamps, which sells for $12.95, costs a small fraction of a dollar to print. SHERWOOD J. SYVERSON, President Lakes Stamp Club Lakewood, Wash...
...never went into any Expos conference without making provisions for a sudden escape. Just take Writing with Sources, and place it in a roomy athletic sock along with a large brick. If your preceptor begins to show signs of his extraterrestrial origin, this sock may be your only means of escape. You should never hit your preceptor with it, unless you wish him to write a very long, nonfiction essay about the experience, to be required reading later in the course. (It would begin "Thunk! The brick felt heavy against my skull.") As soon as you sense danger, hurl...
...Yorker found that 65% of blacks say they have never been denied a job or promotion because of race--yet even a greater percentage believe racism remains a huge problem. Is this mass delusion or something else? Is there no way to get to the motivation or the origin of such black discontent? Shouldn't a study as exhaustive as this at least try to plumb that point? "You may be right," Abigail Thernstrom told TIME. The Thernstroms were "sufficiently tired" of the voice of black discontent that they chose not to get to the bottom of it. "I think...
...Royal Court and the Druid Theatre in Galway--finally showed an interest in his work. Much has been made in the British press about his never having lived for any length of time in the Ireland he writes about so critically and so lushly. The question of his national origin is something of a biographical crux: Is he Irish or English? Everyone wants to know. "It's not that I don't consider myself an Irish writer," says McDonagh, whose parents are Irish, and who spent vacations with family near Galway. "I just try to avoid any questions of nationality...
Thompson ended the week on a high note. "We've seen the influx of substantial amounts of money into the political process, much of it illegal, and much of the illegal part [is] of foreign origin," he told TIME. This week he will prod intelligence officials to make public more information about the mysterious Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections. And Democrats will get a chance to play prosecutor, describing the Republicans' own China connection: alleged money laundering by former G.O.P. chief Haley Barbour...