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...real problem for many transfers not to live on campus," says John R. Marquand, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House. "This leads to other difficulties for them--in particular the feeling that they do not know anyone. They also have the feeling that they are second-class citizens, and that they aren't real members of the community...
Union officials in San Antonio and elsewhere were delighted by the new court position, which should result in moderately increased overtime pay for some municipal workers. Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said the decision ends nine years of "second-class citizenship" for public employees. Backers of local autonomy were shocked. "The court sits as arbiter of power among levels and branches of government," complains Lawrence Velvel, former chief counsel of the State and Local Legal Center in Washington. "That's its role. When the majority throws up its hands because...
...libraries or in extra-curricular activities, there is no substitute for the good times and bad times transfers are new to Harvard, in effect virtual freshmen, the isolation is even worse. Instead of becoming part of "the Harvard experience," they are left on the outside looking in, feeling like second-class students. "I don't feel like a Harvard student. I feel like a transfer student at Harvard," one cynical transfer has said. Even if the University manages to get a transfer on campus in his senior year, by then it is too late...
...days before Christmas, Train 904, an express bound from Naples to Milan with 700 holiday passengers aboard, was roaring through La Direttissima at 90 m.p.h. when a time bomb exploded in a second-class carriage. The force of the blast blew in the double-paned windows in most of the train's 14 cars. Antonio Algieri, 33, one of those wounded by the flying glass, described the scene as "a hurricane of slivers--and then so much terrible screaming in the dark." The train came to a stop, and thick smoke billowed through the tunnel, initially frustrating rescue attempts...
...class letter has gone up about a penny a year. Right on schedule, the service announced last week that a one-ounce letter, which has cost 200 since November 1981, will require a 220 stamp starting next February. The cost of sending postcards will go from 130 to 140, second-class mail like magazines will rise 14.2%, bulk-rate third-class 13.8%, and parcel post...