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...coalition. The charges against Abuhatzeira have renewed tensions between the country's politically and culturally dominant Ashkenazi Jews, of European background, and the Sephardic Jews, from the Middle East, the Balkans and North Africa. Abuhatzeira is from the Sephardic community, which sometimes feels it is a second-class society within Israel. Wrote Nissim Gaon, president of the World Sephardi Federation, to the Jerusalem Post: "The feeling that there are two societies, separate and unequal, has reached a psychological boiling point...
...crusty Avrea, who frets that inventors are treated as "second-class citizens," holds a 1970 patent for a "coolant recovery system" that includes a small plastic bottle attached to the radiator by tubing. Before Avrea's invention, hot radiators sometimes spilled frothy fluid onto the road through a pressure-relief valve, lowering efficiency and forcing drivers to check the coolant level. Now, that fluid flows into Avrea's container; when the engine cools, the liquid runs back through the tubing into the radiator...
Still, Soviet women are second-class comrades. Top jobs have a way of going to men. In medicine, a profession with much less prestige in the Soviet Union than in the West, virtually all the elite surgeons and administrators are male. Mathematics and the sciences are masculine preserves. Though a third of the Supreme Soviet and 25% of Communist Party members are women, none occupy positions of real power, including membership in the Politburo. Even in what are considered traditionally female professions -education, health, post office, telephone and telegraph operations, and shopkeeping-the majority of managers and decision makers...
Under Bolger's new rate schedule, second-class postage for nationally circulated magazines and newspapers, which has rocketed more than 400% since 1970, would rise by an additional 1.9%. Third-class postage for catalogues and some bulk mail would increase by 17.7%. Bolger acknowledges that the increases may cause Americans to make less use of the mails. Said he: "To the extent that higher rates discourage people and businesses from using the mails, they invite inroads from our growing and increasingly aggressive competitors...
...Human Bondage, considered Maugham's greatest work, formed the basis of his literary reputation. He describes himself "in the front rank of second-class writers"; in this novel only, perhaps, did he rise above that description. Morgan makes no attempt to judge Maugham's literary importance, preferring instead to defer to other writers like H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser, who said Maugham was "a great artist" and Of Human Bondage a work of genius. Morgan also cites critics like Malcolm Cowley, who thought Of Human Bondage Maugham's greatest work, and asked, "Why did he never climb back...