Word: calling
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Boyer later described how she followed her agent into each location and pretended to make a phone call as the minor ordered a draft beer. At each request for identification, according to Boyer, the underage agent responded as instructed, "No, I don't have...
After weeks of silence, I called them and those that mustered the courage to get on the phone with me were quite reassuring. They said that they were still working on things, that they were busy but would soon get around to it, that they would call me "at the beginning of next week." In my mind, the beginning of a week ends with Wednesday. I shudder to recall the number of melancholy Thursday mornings I spent in abject disappointment...
...Starr back in January has failed. In a sealed decision leaked to reporters Thursday, Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled the written suggestion -- immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony -- was not actually a binding agreement. That leaves Starr free to make his next move: Either call Lewinsky before the grand jury, or simply indict her for perjury...
...hackers who call themselves the Masters of Downloading are getting their due allotment of jeers and gibes from the computer security community. Having had a little time to see just what the hackers stole from Pentagon computers last week, the government and its team of hired experts mocked the self-important MOD's grandiose claims of being able to shut down the military's network. None of what they took was classified, says the Pentagon, and what they do have is useless without classified data, which lives in computers that aren't even connected to the Internet...
...also cited the recently-released Carnegie Foundation report that criticized teaching at large research institutions like Harvard as a wake-up call to students to take charge of their own education...