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THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOU FACED THREATS AND RETRIBUTION FOR YOUR ACTIONS. DO SOME PEOPLE STILL WISH YOU WOULD GO AWAY? I hope every day they wish I'd go away. How's that? I get threats from time to time. When I was in Georgia recently, teaching at a school, they had to have police there all day. There are still crazies out there. I kind of feel I'm not doing my job if I'm not pissing them off a little...
...Works Essentially a mandatory national savings program, the Central Provident Fund uses a hefty payroll tax, 33%, to fund retirement, medical expenses, education and housing. Workers can withdraw retirement savings at 55 after they have saved a certain amount. They can draw against the other accounts as they wish...
Kudos to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for donating unwanted fur coats to the homeless [Jan. 24]. I wish I could say I have never worn fur, but I have a rabbit-fur coat hanging in the back of my closet from my more selfish days. I'm going to send it to PETA. I can't bring the animals back, but I can help provide a little warmth to people in desperate need...
Unwanted textbooks, posters, and even sheet music can flaunt themselves in the pages of the new weekly classifieds publication “H-Ads,” which allows Harvard students to place ads free of charge for items they wish to buy and sell...
...Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy - Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic - that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard...