Word: calling
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...black people have been trying to explain for years, white people can't call us Negroes. We can call ourselves that. We can call ourselves worse names. But white people...
Bennett hung up and immediately called White House counsel Charles Ruff. Ruff transferred him to the military operator so that Bennett could tell the President himself. And while Bennett was waiting for a line to the President in Senegal, it occurred to him that he had better check and make sure someone wasn't pretending to be Wright's clerk for an April Fools' joke. He put his hand over the phone and asked his associate Amy Sabrin to call the judge's chambers and make sure about the ruling. She did, and by the time Bruce Lindsey answered...
...which the cost of a pack of cigarettes would rise $1.10 over five years. Some G.O.P. lawmakers gagged at the cost--privately they were still promoting the industry's interests. "We've got to go with the President's numbers," McCain cajoled a worried Republican in a phone call. "Otherwise we open ourselves up to the charge that all we care about is the tobacco companies...
Later in the afternoon, there was a transatlantic conference call between the advisers traveling with the President and those left behind at the White House, during which the order was given: no high-fiving or gloating in public. They didn't send anyone out to the talk shows that night, and Bennett gave only a brief sidewalk press statement. Spokesman Mike McCurry went out to address the members of the press corps traveling with Clinton, was reluctant to say whether the President had so much as smiled at the news, and then urged that they all break for dinner...
...which of the above categories you fit into, what surrounds you is a very religious place. It is more than just the fact that the College was founded by Puritans to train their ministers, or that the Memorial Church bell begins to chime at 8:45 weekday mornings to call students to the (now voluntary and ecumenical) morning prayers. Most students and Faculty, whether they see themselves as devout or alienated, observant or ignorant, live a life attuned to religion...