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...Senator Bob Kerrey's artificial leg, and offered X-rated details of a TV journalist's marital difficulties. Imus went easier on people who visit his show (Tim Russert, Bob Dole, Cokie Roberts) than on those who don't, such as Bernard Shaw (an anchor desk away from going postal) and George Will ("the kind of guy who dresses up on weekends in clothes that make him feel pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: THEY'RE SHOCKED, SHOCKED! | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...better watch itself. The passive-aggressive way of (not) doing things, perfected by clerks of the U.S. Postal Service, has spread like a drug-resistant strain of civic anger. A real insecurity and confused apprehension that something has gone basically wrong mutate by stages into free-floating sullen grievance and ballistic self-pity, a boll-weevil mentality of busy stealth, the victim/employee/citizen as secret guerrilla. Alienation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...sells antiques and hand-made copper items. The walls of his store are lined with shiny copper lamps and fixtures, and the table by the front counter displays a large assortment of New England firefighter's memorabilia, complete with coffee mugs and beer pitchers. A former employee of the Postal Service, he is now 59 years old. Bruce approaches the collection of colorful flags that rest by the front door, and selects his "recession flag," hanging it outside for all of Epsom to see. An old flier nailed to a wooden post announces a sale commemorating his marital difficulties, which...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Portraits From Epsom | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

...describe women in terms of a lot of nasty four-letter words, and he were to hang the letter on a local bulletin board, I certainly wouldn't and shouldn't suffer any legal repercussions. By analogy, if this indecency bill were to be applied to the U.S. Postal Service, I would face five years in prison and $100,000 in fines. Email is still essentially mail, regardless of how easy it is to pass along, and should enjoy the same protections from censorship...

Author: By David H. Goldbrenner, | Title: Censorship in the Most Dynamic Forum | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...POSTAL SERVICE Neither snow nor rain keeps them from posting a record post--rate-hike profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Dec. 18, 1995 | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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