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...critics concede that U.S. postal service is cheap compared with that of other countries. Mailing a letter in West Germany, for example, costs 48 cents, while the price is 45 cents in Japan and 33 cents in Britain. Postal officials point out that the price of a first-class stamp, after inflation is taken into account, is about the same as it was in 1971. "The 25 cents stamp is still a bargain," says Frank, "but only if service is good...
...some of Eastern Europe's bitterest tribal rivalries. Yet even as the Soviet leader was seeking to keep the lid on at home, outbreaks of turbulence erupted in three of the Soviet-dominated states of Eastern Europe. In Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, Communist authorities last week moved to stamp out separate shows of popular defiance. Though these outbreaks involved political rather than ethnic grievances, both forms of unrest may have been prompted in part by the spirit of political openness and reform that Gorbachev has promoted...
Since 1917, the British mail service has bolstered revenues by selling stamp space. But Slennett's slogan has raised a ruckus and has prompted the National Secular Society, which claims that about 26% of Britons are atheist or agnostic, to retaliate in kind. It is stamping its envelopes with the words JESUS IS A MYTH...
...Faculty Council will consider the measure, which was passed in January by the Undergraduate Council, on March 23. If the committee approves the funding hike, the full faculty will most likely rubber-stamp the decision next month...
...Harvard traditions left over from the "bad old days." What she and Mr. Dershowitz do not realize is that they themselves personify a "bad old" tradition which predates Harvard by several millenia: the misguided zealot. Waving the banner of liberalism, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz want the state to stamp out ideas which differ from their own. Raising the cry of liberty, they want the state to suppress private activities which might result in opinions they dislike. To achieve their ends, they are drawing upon a more recent tradition, familiar to Massachusetts and to the Puritans-the witch trail. Today...