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Horror stories abound, especially in the health and postal services. Urgent operations can be postponed for three to four months while a patient waits for a hospital bed. "You can queue up and wait to die," says Ferrarotti, "or you can drop 400,000 lire (($325)) up front to ensure yourself a place." A payoff helps to get things done. In a new study, Professor Franco Cazzola of the University of Catania estimates that the kickback industry, the entrenched system of institutionalized bribery, amounts to 3.3 trillion lire ($2.7 billion) a year. One Turin industrialist admits that he does...
BOSTON--A computer dating service that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg helped run in the 1960s prompted complaints from dozens of people and a U.S. Postal Service probe before filing for bankruptcy in 1967, according to a published report...
...Postal Service probe of the Cambridge dating service, in which Ginsburg served as vice president, was suspended after company leaders moved to New York and disappeared, according to an investigator's memo...
Then there are the funny "idea" statistics. There are 245 one-liners in an average Henny Youngman monologue. (0.4 percent of which involve the taking of his wife.) At today's rates, George Bernard Shaw ran up a $50,000 postal bill in his lifetime. Chicago's libraries have 7500 copies of Catcher in the Rye outstanding...
...will soon be having an exhibit at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Brookline of postcards that he and his wife painted and sent back to friends while they were in Greece. All the postcards were sent through the mail system, and thus handled by an untold number of postal employees. "You hope they saw it and said, 'Hey!"', he says. "You hope they didn't see it and rip it up." Again, it is art meant for handling, meant to blend in with the regular goings on of the world...