Word: phoning
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When the call came to emergency services, all the operator could decipher over the foreign voices howling in the background was a man yelling, "Sinking water, sinking water!" The operator implored the man to pass the phone to an English speaker, but he just kept shouting those two words before the line...
...even know what I'm capable of," he says. Meanwhile, he's hanging out with his friends, writing songs and screenplays, seeing nearly every movie that comes out and avoiding malls and other places swoon-prone teenage girls hang out, since he finds being swarmed with cell-phone cameras incredibly embarrassing. These are things Urkel did not have to worry about...
...custom haberdashery now? Ford sees it as a reaction to too much technology and information. "I think we've lost the human touch a bit in fashion," says Ford, "I go into stores, and there's nobody to help me. I get recorded voices on the end of the phone. I see this as a throwback to something that we have lost...
...talk ... You're brave now, motherf___er. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger." MICHAEL RICHARDS, comedian, to a heckler AFTERMATH: Cell-phone video of the tirade was posted on TMZ.com and Richards apologized but became the object of many protests and jokes. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...general concerns about social or academic life at Harvard, minority students must often consider issues particular to their racial or ethnic background—fears of prejudice, stereotyping, and cultural isolation. Those concerns are best addressed by students with shared experiences and cultural backgrounds. Hence the need for personal phone calls from current students or specific pairings at prefrosh weekend; these students can act as both resources and liaisons to the cultural communities on campus. With these measures and additional pamphlets, the UMRP commendably balances its interests in giving students information about and access to various ethnic groups, while neither...