Word: dispatches
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...eclectic to be pigeonholed. The House played host to a wide range of international musicians from Africa and the Caribbean, including luminaries such as Thomas Mapfumo of Zimbabwe and the Boukman Eksperyans. The House of Blues also featured local heroes such as Pete Francis, formerly of the band Dispatch...
...Other shows do more than just dispense advice. In Bangkok, a 24-hour radio program called "Uniting to Help Each Other" pulls in 800,000 listeners during peak hours by serving as a proxy people's advocate. An errant spouse? The radio station will dispatch a therapist to provide counseling at the couple's home. A sick puppy? Callers will flood the line with recommendations on the best veterinarian. And that's only the beginning. The station helps callers find wallets left in the back of taxis and notifies the fire station when there's a blaze in the neighborhood...
Controversy also marred the distribution of 200 tickets for a Red Sox-Yankees game. Last week, the class committee awarded tickets to the first 200 students to dispatch e-mails requesting them. Whether or not allegations of favoritism and time-stamp tampering are true, they reveal seniors’ unhappiness with this method of distributing tickets. A more conventional lottery of interested seniors for the limited number of tickets would have been much fairer for all students and could have alleviated any concerns of impropriety...
...they would strike again - first Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic, then two top Djindjic aides. As panic spread, the special forces unit known as the Red Berets - some of whose commanders carried out the Djindjic murder - would step forward, posing as guardians of the peace. They would urge calm, and dispatch letters to local politicians and foreign diplomats offering their "assistance" against the wave of "terrorism." The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Slobodan Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule. That's the picture police in Belgrade...
...first trip to Columbia’s new Dick Savitt Tennis Center, Harvard made quick work of the Lions. The Crimson took just 2:24 to dispatch Columbia, never dropping more than four games in a set in the six singles matches...