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...interrupt dinners, down time, and always call at the wrong time." Of course, the "they" in question is telephone solicitors. In October, Warner will publish a paperback original, "Fun with Phone Solicitors: 50 Ways to Get Even!" by Robert Harris. The author offers such techniques as: The Telephone Ruse: Pretend to transfer your tormentor and then press several buttons on your phone The Verbatim Variation: Repeat everything the caller says in a sing-song voice The Drop-the-Phone Drill: Self-explanatory...
...Senator John Kennedy in the late 1950s and remains close to the family. "Trust me, there's no such thing." Biographer Laurence Leamer (The Kennedy Men 1901-1963, due in October) sees the myth machine as a journalistic contrivance. "It's a useful way to sell books, to pretend that this thing exists," he says. "A writer gets to say, 'I am the first to break through the myth machine and bring you the real story.' But the closer you get to it, the more you realize it just doesn't exist." But even Leamer acknowledges that it once...
...Both racism and sexism are relevant because they may dictate this case. Still, the media tries to pretend otherwise. In the days immediately following the rape charge, most news outlets didn't report on the race of the accused. Some Western journalists did, but they didn't note that his accuser was almost certainly a kokujo and that the nightclub culture around the Okinawan bases is almost as segregated as the Jim Crow South. When off duty, most military personnel tend to congregate according to race. The clubs that black servicemen frequent are also the haunts of kokujo. Of course...
...looking like the soulless building where Isabella Rossellini was kept in Blue Velvet; the images of secret lovemaking on dank and silent Washington summer evenings; new old girlfriends turning up on a weekly basis, talking of being told not to talk. One could swim down into this stuff or pretend to sail above it (as this paragraph somewhat does) and swim while sailing...
...hollowed out so dramatically that many villages are void of men and the agrarian economy is failing. But the workers up north are sending so much money back home--$8 billion a year by most estimates--that these "remittances" are now the fourth largest source of income. Both governments pretend that 3 million illegal Mexicans live in the States; both know the real number is closer to 4.5 million. And so for the past several months, lawyers and diplomats from both sides have been trying to hammer out a new deal. The talks began after Fox played host to Bush...