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...Department (HUPD), which receives about 50 reports of annoying and harassing phone calls each year, according to police spokesman Steven G. Catalano. The majority of those calls are made during a short time period, Catalano said. “Callers will use a soft voice or a whisper to distract the person they are calling into thinking that it is someone they know calling,” Catalano wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The reports are similar to a string of phone calls placed by a man known as the “serial whisperer...
COULD IT ESCALATE? Possibly, says College of William & Mary's George W. Grayson. "The scariest prospect is if they are coordinating with the drug cartels," Grayson says of the guerrillas. "Both could be looking for ways to distract the government...
...mass demonstrations in support of the deposed President. "We hope and pray that the rule of law will prevail," Bunye said. "Meantime, we have a country to run, an economy to grow and a peace to win. We hope that this sad episode in our history will not permanently distract us from this goal...
...manage not to go crazy with all those women after you?! It doesn't distract you from your goals at all? -Florian Wilisch, Paris [laughs] No. I'm fine. I'm always very happy for having people who follow me. It motivates me, and I'm very thankful for it. It suits me well...
Still, I have to admit that when it's lunchtime, I usually head for Lucille's, a humble American-style greasy spoon in the Maadi district of Cairo that may serve the tastiest burger in the world. Don't let me distract you from your Fourth of July barbecue; but yes, a family restaurant in Egypt dishes up the best burger I've ever eaten, and I'm not the only one who thinks that way. One of owner Lucille Crooks's thrills came the day she witnessed a young American backpacker talking and smiling to his burger...