Word: postmark
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...high school seniors, May 1 was D-Day. Decision Day. After weeks of weighing the pros and cons, they had until the last mail pickup on Friday to postmark a deposit to reserve a spot in next year's freshman class. In this spring of economic certainty, many nationally known schools are sweating over whether they'll enroll, or "yield," enough students to fill the class - an outcome officials won't know for sure until all the deposits are tallied over the coming weeks. But in a tiny corner of Kentucky, one little college is doing just fine. Berea College...
...which 100 or so invited guests have gathered to honor her performance in Stephen Daldry's The Reader. This particular publicity event, orchestrated in the 26th mile of the Oscar marathon, has multiple purposes: it's designed to entice any wavering voters in the few days before the last postmark lands on the last ballot. It's also intended to defuse complaints that the movie's treatment of the Holocaust is too manicured. Thus, Elie Wiesel has been drafted to host the meal, which would have been a masterly counterstroke of damage control for distributor Harvey Weinstein had Wiesel...
Thirteen envelopes containing a similar white powder were received at the Wall Street Journal’s headquarters in New York that day. All the envelopes bore a postmark from Knoxville, Tenn...
Thirteen envelopes—which contained a similar white powder and also bore a postmark from Knoxville, Tenn.—were received at the Wall Street Journal's headquarters in New York this morning, according to numerous media reports. The Journal published an opinion piece on Jan. 2 in which Dershowitz, who is one of Israel’s most prominent defenders, supported Israel’s military actions in Gaza...
...that churches should avoid even more anodyne political involvement. "With Sen. Grassley holding hearings on exactly this issue in Washington DC, we can't be to careful!!!!" it states, with a notable misspelling. Hollinger said the letters were addressed to him, with no return address and a Des Moines postmark...