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...strains of the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman," WZLX-FM in Boston lambasted Hussein Wednesday for his country's march into neighboring Kuwait...
...song, updated by the Beatles in the early 1960s,' changes the original lyrics from, "Stop, oh yes, wait a minute Mr. Postman, wa-a-a-it Mr. Postman," to "Oh yeah, wait a minute Mr. Hussein, Kuwait isn't yours Mr. Hussein...
...many French companies, Hermes uses local talent to guide overseas operations. Says Chrysler Fisher, an Oklahoman who is president of U.S. operations: "The word elitist makes my blood curdle." Fisher has installed a toll-free phone number to make Hermes products available "to any customer in Des Moines." A postman in Waco, Texas, became Hermes' first U.S. designer after drawing scarves featuring a Pawnee Indian chief and a wild turkey...
...advantage over us insofar as their partly ideogrammatic language encourages them to think in terms of images: haiku are the music videos of the printed word). Nor would this be the first time that technology has changed the very way we speak: the invention of typography alone, as Neil Postman writes, "created prose but made poetry into an exotic and elitist form of expression." No less a media figure than Karl Marx once pointed out that the Iliad would not have been composed the way it was after the invention of the printing press...
Until Dale Carnegie takes hold as the new model for postal supervisors, one postmaster has a low-tech idea for improving service in Worthington, Ohio. For every letter misdelivered, the postman refunds the cost of the stamp to the customer out of his own pocket. Since September, 44 quarters have been paid out and complaints have dropped from ten a week...