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...recently requested something from one such famous person. Famous in the Oscar-nominated sense of the word. As is customary with such requests, I put it in writing and faxed the letter through to the famous person's agent, who then passed it on to the publicist, who passed it on to the famous person, who usually takes a pass and the publicist passes that pass on to me. (I may have the actual order of the Chinese whispers back to front here, but you get the picture.) I submitted to this process even though I saw said famous person...
...Coldwater, Michigan. Luse reportedly credited an intake of boiled dandelion greens and fried fish as the reason for her long life. DIED. RUDOLF HELL, 100, inventor of the first machine that electronically dissolved text into a stream of dots to be reassembled at the receiving end, on which fax machines and scanners are based; in Berlin. Last year the city of Kiel commemorated his achievements by renaming the Siemenswall Rd., which leads to his former plant, the Dr.-Hell-Strasse. DIED. HERMAN TALMADGE, 88, former U.S. senator and governor of Georgia who predicted that "blood will run in Atlanta...
...calls himself "a pauper king." He wants it that way. He tells the palace chef to dish up simple food for his retinue. "Do you know what little the people have to eat out there?" Karzai says to his chef. His office has only a single computer and a fax machine. The United Nations gave Karzai and his Cabinet officials their cell phones, and some of his ministers keep punching the wrong buttons...
...premises are generally safe, but watch for the occasional pickpocket or questionably legitimate Third World head of state spending half of his or their annual budget to bring a giant entourage to the neighboring William “John F.” Kennedy School of Government. (864-1200; fax 864-5715; $25 for dorms, $35 for singles; prices may be negotiable). Vicky C. Hallett’s bedroom, Winthrop C-21, Mill St., has offered tidy bathrooms and sweet lovin’ to many, many weary male travelers. Bring your own padlock and toilet paper...
...Harvey handles the telecommunications. They operate two small home businesses, Kronberg's Flags and Flagpoles and a local newsletter, and though Harvey is his own boss, he has to keep a lot of other people happy--his cell-phone company, his long-distance carrier, another phone company for the fax line at his office and still another for local phone service. The Kronbergs live in Texas, a state that went in for deregulation in a big way, so not only do they have to choose from multiple local phone services, but they also have more than one electric company vying...