Word: callings
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Adam M. Butensky '13 was in Israel with his classmates when he got a fateful phone call. “I actually thought it was a prank," he said. "So I told this admissions officer to "stop [expletive] with me.” The admissions officer, who was undoubtedly prepared for such naughty language, politely assured Butensky that he was indeed not being [expletive] with." Butensky told us that he "was just amazed that they somehow got my Israeli phone number," since he was using an international phone. "But yeah," he said, "that's how I found...
...speak for the group, but most of them were in on it. Six months ago, I was driving with friends, and they had satellite radio. So they were listening to Playboy Radio, which had an advice show playing, so I thought, “Why not call in and try to get through?” So I got through, and pretended to have girlfriend who wanted to do some pretty unnecessary things to me. Eventually they figured out I was pulling their leg, and I got kicked...
...Weatherhead Center for International Affairs cannot and will not take the specific actions that Mr. Bowman, Ms. Gharavi, and Mr. Rashid call for in their letter. This does not constitute support for Kramer’s positions—far from it. It constitutes an unswerving commitment to the principles of academic freedom and free speech, even when the content of that speech causes us institutional and personal embarrassment, which, I will be frank, it has done in this case. But please do not make the mistake of concluding that the Weatherhead Center has defended Mr. Kramer?...
...after her-much-beloved-Aunt-but-not-actually-an-aunt Henrietta, whom I never had the opportunity to meet to verify that claim. My father would have preferred to keep the extant name for simplicity and, well, pragmatic reasons. My parents decided to compromise and use both names, but call me by my middle name. (For the record, “Bratton” is my mom’s last name...
...Kenyan prisons. They are generally illiterate young men who have no say in the operations they join and don't even know how much ransom is paid for the ships they hijack. All of the financial negotiations are conducted well above their pay grade. "These guys, you can call them ragtag people," says Nyawinda, their lawyer. "They don't have a leader as such. When I go visit them in jail, one may know Swahili more than the others. Whoever among them understands more becomes the leader...