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Koizumi isn't a Johnny-come-lately to the reformist cause; he has long championed privatizing the postal system, where Japanese have squirreled away more than $2 trillion in savings. But he's no outside agitator either. He fills a parliamentary seat that was occupied by his grandfather and father, and last fall he held back from supporting a longtime ally's abortive coup against Mori. There was also a fair bit of back-room politicking on Koizumi's behalf. At a dinner in a plush Ginza restaurant in mid-April, half a dozen conservative stalwarts, including former Prime Minister...
...Western man with a Filipina girl, I feel sick," says 19-year-old Paul Calumpiano, who is half-American. "But I can do nothing but throw stares at the man's back." Others, though, have no choice but to return to the bars teeming with retired American postal workers and overweight German laborers. Mixed-race boys can find work as deejays, bouncers or, if they're tall, play for a local basketball team...
DIED. ROBERT AURAND MOON, 83, former postal inspector who was one of the inventors of the ZIP code; in Leesburg, Fla. Moon began working for the post office in the 1940s in Philadelphia and Chicago, where his idea was born for what became the Zoning Improvement Plan...
...mind's natural reflex of tedium and disgust, much like the revulsion and detumescence experienced after watching hard-core pornography for a little while. After you have seen the Headless Horseman perform three or four ride-by whackings, after you have watched Russell Crowe (Everyman, gone twitchingly postal) take off half a dozen heads, the instruments of human feeling shut down. You react to blood firehosing from a severed carotid as you would to the sight of a man spilling gravy on his tie. Whoops...
Following through on the scheme can be hazardous. Scambusters.org, an Internet watchdog group, says that an American was murdered in Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing a 4-1-9 scam. U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reports show that another victim was confronted by two Nigerians with automatic weapons, and was forced to turn over $4,000 in traveler's checks before receiving permission to leave the country. Another victim lost over $400,000 before reporting the fraud...