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...phone rang at 3 A.M. the other day. As calls??at that hour go, it wasn't so terrible. No one I know had been rushed to the hospital. This was an emergency of another sort: my credit was under attack, and I needed to act fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: 'Tis the Season for ID Theft | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...like to be a preferred customer at Marc Jacobs? Compared with the feeling at other luxury labels, the Jacobs vibe, like the brand, is low-key. "It's not by appointment or anything," says Rich. "Usually it's a pop-in kind of thing." Rich makes house calls???he has delivered clothes to model Stephanie Seymour in Connecticut and to Julia Roberts when she is in town?but he has never boarded a plane for a client, and his digs are nothing like the vault-like VIP suites at Louis Vuitton. He doesn't shut down the store for celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Got Their Numbers | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...smallest in baseball, and probably the most overworked. In 15 years, Finley's autocratic rule has used up five scouting directors, six farm directors (last week the seventh, John Claiborne, quit in disgust), ten publicity managers and 16 broadcasters. He sends the staff scurrying with round-the-clock calls???there is even a telephone in the men's room (located a safe distance from the clubhouse)?and supervises everything from bat orders for the players to food in the press room. Frank Ciensczyk, the A's equipment manager, sometimes gets five or six calls a day. When Gene Tenace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Charlie Finely: Baseball's Barnum | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...meaningful and satisfying relationship. What I would define as a sick person in sexual terms would be someone who could not go through the full sequence of sexual activity, from seeing and admiring to following, speaking, touching, and genital contact. A rapist, a person who makes obscene telephone calls???these seem to me sick people, and I don't think it matters a damn whether the other person is of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Discussion: Are Homosexuals Sick? | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

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