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...22nd. Soon afterward, looking more relaxed than he ever had during the campaign, Martin stepped up to a podium emblazoned with party slogans to recall that on one of his appearances, he had met a little girl who inadvertently called him Paul--and then apologized for the lapse in protocol. "'Oh, I'm sorry, Prime Minister,'" he recalled her saying. Then he added softly, "Well, let me tell you, she can call me Paul again...
Following protocol, HUPD did not release the name of the victim...
...WHAT'S THE TRICK TO STRIKING THE PROPER BALANCE? We need to develop a new set of protocol about answering messages and all the rest. I have a cell phone and fax machine and I check my email several times a day. But I don't answer the phone during family dinner, for instance. You can't make love by e-mail-yet. But you sure can court by e-mail and it can be wonderfully helpful to relationships. On the other hand, I have a patient who calls her husband's computer his plastic mistress because they hardly ever...
...subscribe to NTL cable television for an additional $70 a month - until he discovered he could install a set-top box that allows British residents to receive digital channels without paying a monthly subscription. Recently he called a friend who was visiting India on a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that allows users to make toll-free calls to each other via their computers' online connection. Now he plans to call friends in the U.S. the same way - instead of dialing his NTL fixed-line telephone. "I'm just trying to find a way to keep down the costs...
...Yeah, this is a personal opinion. We need to [consider] what the public perceives FEMA's role should have been and what statutorily FEMA's role is. Their protocol for a disaster is that locals go to the states, states go to the Federal government, and they bring resources in. When we hit that tipping point and the city flooded, it was not within FEMA's mission, capabilities or competency to go out and direct actual rescue operations. The Coast Guard came in and did it because we're trained to do that. And whatever issues there are with FEMA...