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Then there's Harry Caray, the voice of the Cubbies. Rumor has it that Caray has gotten so used to announcing afternoon games that he will fall asleep at night games...
...Nomura salesman in 1973, when stocks on the Tokyo exchange took a tumble, leaving one of his clients with more than $10,000 in losses. Recalls Idotsuji: "I raced over to his house, but he wasn't there. So I kept going back until finally I fell asleep on his doorstep. At 2 in the morning my client returned, and I apologized. We have been friends ever since." Now that Idotsuji is manager of the Nomura branch in the Kichijoji district of Tokyo, he expects the same dedication from his salesmen. Like fierce drill sergeants, Nomura bosses demand hard work...
...pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...
...sits upright in bed. Leonard Howard, her fiance, is also awake. "Leonard says to me, 'It's only a dream,' " Sherri reports. She is a 25-year-old single mother. Bianca, 9, the girl in the dream, is her only child. That night Sherri can not fall back asleep. Months later, the dream still haunts...
...effort to keep juries from falling asleep, lawyers are taking acting lessons to punch up their courtroom performances...