Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents and I were close in high school, but the daily phone call tradition began by chance, because I had to share the funny incidents of my first year (that glorious time of self-discovery and maturation, that wonderful year of randomized roommates) with them. The stories were legendary. There was the time one of our roommates let someone use our fridge to keep some baking ingredients. One of the jars-dubiously labeled 'intestinal flora'-caught our attention. Only later did my sister, a medical school student, tell me that if we had any sort of direct contact with...
Then there was the time the same roommate comped dorm crew: he cleaned our bathroom, and then promptly left all the mops in our suite, assuring us he'd return them the following day. The next morning, at 7 a.m., we received a phone call from an irate dorm crew captain. "Return the stuff or he's fired," she said. Since my roommate was practicing the piano in Paine Hall (more on that in a minute), I had to trudge over to Weld--through the snow--to return the mops...
Sure, they're ordinary citizens like us, just average folks participating in government. On the other hand, they are the kind of people who can tell the candidate they're endorsing, "Just a sec, babe, Spielberg has me on call waiting." Here are some of the celebrities who endorsed candidates this year, and how their endorsees fared...
Leno was not the only one who got orbital schmooze time with the shuttle crew last week. Glenn also took a call from NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, who relayed a blunt message from Glenn's wife Annie: "You ain't going up again...
...drops his long-standing plan to declare a Palestinian state next May. Netanyahu had found a number of reasons to delay implementation of the deal over the past month, but Washington's need for Arab support on the Iraq crisis -- articulated by President Clinton in a Tuesday-night phone call to Netanyahu -- created the pressure for him to secure the necessary cabinet vote last Wednesday...