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...live telemarketer. When you answer your phone at home and hear nothing but light static, it's often because an automatic dialer has reached you but no agent was free to take the call. An unlisted number used to provide protection, until digital technology allowed marketers to easily gather lists of consumers who have given their numbers to credit-card companies or others with which they do business...
...Random brutality was a staple of Saddam's Iraq. Their recent freedom from it means Iraqis can begin to come to terms with their personal losses. Baghdad, filled first with rejoicing, then recriminations, after Saddam's fall, has shifted now to bearing witness. People gather at prison gates to review their life inside, a diet of torture and starvation. Shiites describe the secular indignities imposed by Saddam. And families of the missing wander from prisoner welfare groups to empty government offices in search of answers they dared not ask when the Sunni regime was still in power...
Morris and his roommates will gather in his Dunster suite tomorrow and Sunday to follow the National Football League’s (NFL) college draft on TV along with millions of other football fans. While dozens of so-called “experts” have published dozens of predictions on what round and to what team the Harvard wide receiver and two-time Ivy Player of the Year will be selected, the truth is Morris could end up in any one of the NFL’s 31 cities...
Time it took police to gather the over 800 pairs of women’s underwear scattered about the suspect’s bedroom after receiving a warrant to search his home...
...jocular Texan who runs a comic store in Dallas; Steve Leaf, a purchasing agent for Diamond, America's largest comic distributor; and Jen Contino, a fellow web-based comix journalist. With the exception of Jen, who stayed home for personal reasons, we were all flown into San Diego to gather like the members of the Mission: Impossible team. Soon we were hunkered down in the basement of a mid-level hotel. With no window to let in the So-Cal sunshine, we would spend the next 48 hours bathing in the fluorescent light reflected off the thousands of pages...