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...That?s right - it?s time, once again, for yet another rate increase from the U.S. Postal Service. Just four short months after hiking up the cost of a first-class stamp, the financial wizards over at the soon-to-be-vacated Postmaster General?s office have discovered that, whoops, that one-cent increase isn?t going to keep them from confronting $2 billion in losses...
...That admiration, as you may have guessed, does not spill over into my regard for the brainiacs in Washington. Would it have been easier to just raise the price of a first-class stamp to 35 cents, or even 36 cents, and then let us all get on with our lives for a couple of years? Yes, of course it would. But before you go expecting something as exotic as rational behavior from the postal service, you have to remember we?re talking about a massive government bureaucracy, in which estimates of profit margins can take months, even years...
...available only on the bmwfilms.com website. With a budget in the low seven figures and only a few company rules--the recurring character of the Hire (played with rugged poignancy by British actor Clive Owen of Croupier) and, well, a BMW here and there--each auteur can put his stamp on his project. "It's a chance to make a student film again," says director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club), the project's executive producer, "but also to have the resources, to have the cranes and the beautiful cars to destroy. Things like that...
...their howling, Democrats are wrong if they think this commission is just going to rubber-stamp the president's position. Why? Because the president doesn't have much of a position. Much like the wispy specifics in his National Missile Defense plan yesterday, Bush has artfully ducked the tough questions about just how the privatization is going to work. His job is to set the priorities, he says. Let other people work out the hard stuff...
...October, Karachi police received reports that a mummy was being offered for sale to "big foreigners," including an unidentified ambassador. A 50-minute amateur video of the mummy, with a 1990 date stamp, featured close-ups of its gold crown and breastplate. The asking price: $10 million. The possession of antiquities older than 50 years is a crime in Pakistan, as is their forgery; Karachi's deputy superintendent of police, Muhammad Farooq Awan, arrested the video's distributor, who led police to Quetta, Baluchistan's rugged provincial capital. There, Awan and his team raided the home of Wali Muhammad Reeki...