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...Settling down each afternoon to watch Mister Rogers' eponymous television show, my brother Peter and I would wait for him to ask his famous musical question, "Won't you be my neighbor?" and we would yell back at the set, laughing uproariously, "But we ARE your neighbors...
...family also went to the same church as the Rogers family, and when we were little, Peter and I would go upstairs during services to the playroom where every few weeks we restless children were joined by Mister Rogers. He would appear in the doorway without fanfare, slip into the room and start reading a book aloud, or talking earnestly with a five-year-old about a new puppy or little brother, or just sit at one of the miniature tables, his long legs tucked up toward his chest, smiling down at us as we played...
...According to Peter Schurman, executive director of MoveOn.org, his web site had signed up more than 140,000 supporters, each of whom agreed to make a phone call to the White House and to both of their state's senators. That alone would put 420,000 calls through D.C. switchboards. There were also a reported 80,000 faxes sent through TrueMajority.org, another member of the Win Without War coalition. Tom Andrews, the national director for Win Without War, estimated that 1 million calls and faxes had been placed by the end of business Wednesday...
...Peter Piot, U.N. under secretary-general and head of the UNAIDS initiative, said the business community possesses “skills and energy that are still under utilized” in the fight against AIDS...
...puck was along the side boards at the Crimson end, with junior forward Rob Fried and freshman defenseman Peter Hafner digging against Dartmouth’s forwards. When a third Big Green attacker came into the play, sophomore defenseman Noah Welch drifted over to the side and applied a strong hit. Unfortunately the puck squirted loose and Dartmouth crashed the net on a mini-breakaway. Senior Kent Gillings took the puck in and fired a shot at sophomore goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris, who made the save but couldn’t control the rebound. Amidst the scrum...