Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ghana is honoring six writers. Besides Gates, Maya Angelou, Alex Haley, Charles Johnson, Richard Wright and Toni Cade Bambara will each have their own stamp. In a separate series, Uganda will issue stamps of Rita Dove, Mari Evans, Sterling A. Brown, Stephen Henderson, Zora Neale Hurston and June Jordan...
IGPC, which markets stamp ideas to 70 countries, usually takes two to three years to develop a stamp series. According to Lonnie Ostrow, head of IGPC media relations, developing this black literary figure series in under one year was "an exception because it was long overdue...
...letter you published from Bill Isbister, director of Too Many People...Too Little Earth! [LETTERS, Oct. 6], criticized Mother Teresa and stated that "overpopulation is literally greed personified." I contend that overpopulation is ignorance and poverty personified. These two things do not spell greed. If we can stamp out ignorance and poverty, overpopulation will be eliminated naturally. Mother Teresa is one of the best examples to follow. Who better understood these harsh realities? JOANN D. CURCIO Cos Cob, Conn...
...became Harvard's all-time leader in career receptions with 109, passing Pat McInally's '75 previous school record of 108. Skelton put his stamp on the record book at 5:37 in the first quarter when he caught a 51-yard pass from quarterback Rich Linden...
...turn the tide. If we fail, we could cross that 21st century bridge into a land like Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's vastly incredible, exquisitely surreal romp through a near future in which bureaucracy is lord and master. Where if you don't have the proper stamp on your 27 B stroke six, soon enough Central Services is tearing up your ducts, the Central Collective Storehouse computer has got you down as deleted, and your wife's screaming "what have you done with his body...