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The credit card companies
do not seem to have realized
this Every day I get some
thing in the mail offering me.
Graduating Senior, a Visa
card. MasterCard. Discover
Card, or American Express
Card with a pre approved
credit limit in the thousands
of dollars.
Just the other day. this guy
with a heavy Southern accent
rousted me from bed early in
the morning with an "incred
ible, once-ina-lifetime offer
of a Chevy Chase Gold Mas
terCard or Visa card, with a
pre-approved credit limit of
$6,000 to $50,000
Because I am not fully
functioning before 10 a.m .
the first thing I said was, I
thought Chevy Chase was
that comedian who used to be
on Saturday Night Live'. '
He informed me that Chevy
Chase was a bank, and asked
if I wouldn't like to have this
nice line of credit to help me
get started in my new post
graduation life
Unfortunately for the guy
on the telephone, at that mo
ment, I realized exactly how
the savings-and-loan crisis
Drozdiak_
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ington Post or even The Ore
goman, you don't want to be
come so narrowly focused,
which can happen,'' he said
"If you spend too many years
living in a place abroad, you
tend to take on the traits or
perspective of the local coun
try or population you are liv
ing in. So you never want to
lose sight of the people you
are writing for
"That's why its good for
me to have come back and
worked in the newsroom as
foreign editor before going
back overseas
Ironically, Drozdiak's van
ous trials and travels over the
past two decades, experienc
mg dozens of cultures, lan
guages and peoples, have not
complicated his view of the
world.
"If anything it has become
simpler." he says
"Overall, people have the
standards or expect to have
the same standards of justice
and righteousness and self re
sped And if you are deprived
of them, that causes resent
ment. and that inevitably
leads to conflict
"Having lived in so many
different countries and cul
tures, I am intrigued by the
universality of human atti
tudes." he said
Having experienced the
best of both worlds — wheth
er it was basketball and poll
tics, or the west and east
sides of the Atlantic — Bill
Drozdiak's world has become
a much smaller place.
— Joe Kidd
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CASHING
at the
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Bookstore
got started
I yelled into the phone.
Don't you people realize I
don t even have a )ob9 I make
S100 a month working on the
school paper, for God's sake
Giving me a credit card with a
$6,000 credit limit is about as
safe as making loans to Third
World countries'
At that point, I think the
poor telemarketer must have
realized he woke me up He
apologized profusely for both
i
ertng me and hung up
I only wish I could make
such a point to all the well
meaning grownups I encoun
ter who wish to advise me on
a course of action in my life
Maybe next time I could break
out into that Billy Joel song
' I don’t care what you say
anymore this is my life Go
ahead with your own life.
leave me alone1
Stephanie A/<■«< intet
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