Word: third-class
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...good that Gary Bauer was challenged for his hypocrisy. He's willing to take on China's human rights abuses, but promotes the idea that gay people should be treated as second or third-class citizens. Bauer supports the use of lies and deception to get what he wants, despite the legitimacy of what that want is. With the country's present state, do we really want to elect another president who will use any and all forms of deception to reach personal goals? GARY RIMAR Romeo, Mich., April...
...blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate a predictable prejudice: that the first-class passengers are third-class people, and vice versa...
...logistical difficulty of the film, Cameron claims his Titanic is more a love story than an action picture--which may not soothe his backers' anxieties. Inspired by the romance and sweep of Doctor Zhivago, the director-screenwriter has devised a fictional liaison between first-class passenger Winslet and third-class cute guy DiCaprio. The director says he's fascinated by the notion that people who were supposed to be coddled and secure were facing imminent doom. "They thought they were safe in this big luxury hotel," he says. "In fact, they were in a steel object over 2 1/2 miles...
...raise all rates by the same percentage: Instead of charging a quarter for each post card or extra ounce of regular mail, as the post office wanted, post cards will be 20 cents -- up a penny -- and extra ounces will stay at 23 cents. The downside: second- and third-class mail -- including magazines and newspapers -- go up 14 percent, Parcel Post jumps 18 percent and the special library rate increases a painful 70 percent. BTW: The flat first-class stamp rate debuted in 1885 at 2 cents an ounce, cleared 10 cents in 1974 and rose from 25 cents...
...opposition groups in Moscow threaten to call for the President's impeachment if he caves in to Japanese demands. Rather than return from Japan empty-handed, Yeltsin simply reneged. In Tokyo one newspaper blamed the cancellation on the Japanese government, saying it was the result of "poor diplomacy by third-class politicians...