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While there are rules that govern the way telemarketers make calls and solicit customers, there are relatively few rules governing the way they acquire names in the first place.

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: I'm Not Interested, Thanks: Telemarketing Plagues College Students | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

It's 3:30 a.m., nine hours since dinner. At this point General Wong seems like a culinary genius. A zombie-walk in flip-flops to Store 24 for a snack that will undoubtedly hit the spot suddenly comes to an devastating halt. After the hellish three-minute hike, it...

Author: By S. Graham-felsen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Serving You Twenty-Three Hours a Day | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

I like chatting with friends and chatting with co-workers. I like chatting on the phone until 3 a.m. with my sister in California. But I never did acquire a taste for online chat. That's because the conversations I attempted with disembodied strangers in chat rooms operated by America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Talkin' to Me? | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Lincoln went on to worry that great and ambitious men, living after the great deeds of the Founding, might achieve fame through destruction rather than preservation of political institutions. An ambitious man of the loftiest genius, he wrote, "would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire [distinction] by doing good as...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: March Madness and Democracy | 3/22/2000 | See Source »

By their second year, the students acquire an unmistakable rugged look, Dewis says.

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition | 3/17/2000 | See Source »

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