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Depending on your long-distance provider, that stranger with the thick accent may not be a telemarketer or a prank caller. Skype, whose software lets users make free phone calls over the Internet, has become the hot download among young Asians--with 45,000 new Chinese users signing on each day. And many of them are practicing their English by making random calls to fellow Skype users in the U.S. The company, which has 66 million registered subscribers in more than 200 countries, includes language preferences in every user's profile, and last year started offering a "Skype Me" mode...
...Yalies’ prank attempt at The Game was but a pale, failed echo of last year’s epoch in prank history. After a wholesome afternoon visiting tailgates, Barrett B. Jackson ’06 and her gaggle of friends received two suspicious text messages from an unidentified number. “Remember: SCHOOL ON MONDAY!!! -John Harvard” read the first message, and “Hi [personalized names]! At the THIRD QUARTER KICKOFF, chant “We Suck” to prove to Yale (forever a safety school) that we don?...
...Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. Others, of course, might argue that it completes what the Pistols' estranged ex-manager-creator Malcolm McLaren dubbed the "Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle"-he maintains that the iconoclastic band he devised from his King's Road boutique was really just an elaborate prank on the music industry. Indeed, there is more than a measure of irony in the Pistols' being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they had decried as fatuously boring and had aimed to destroy. Still, the actual band-drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones, original bass player Glen...
...Korean nuclear issue, was so intent on asking a question that he accepted the microphone when it was handed to Bohan. "You can go ahead and grab the mike if you want to," Bush joshed. "But I didn't know you were called "Caren.' " On the contrary, among his prank-happy fellow reporters, Sanger is likely to be called "Caren" from...
...consecutive nights last week. The heavyweights’ attempt apparently resulted in the deaths of over 100 goldfish, while the lightweights’—which used plastic bags to contain the fish—preserved some of them until morning. The two events mark a surge in prank wars between the Harvard and Radcliffe teams that date back to 1972. But in the past year, these pranks have been getting fishier—literally. In October 2004, members of the men’s varsity lightweight crew team reportedly snuck through a second story window of the Weld...