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When Elsarraj’s cell phone rang during her presentation, she took it as an opportunity to explain the distinct significance...
...after my divorce was announced in the papers, the phone rang. Someone yelled, "Jane, there's a Ted Turner on the phone for you." Ted Turner? I'd met him once with Tom at a screening of a documentary about child abuse that his Turner Broadcasting System was going to run. He's probably calling to offer me a job, I thought as I picked up the phone. Suddenly a voice boomed through the phone so loudly that I had to hold the receiver away from...
...more incident beyond John Paul's control burnished his aura as someone of more than religious prominence and, indeed, beyond mankind's lower passions. On May 13, 1981, during his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, shots rang out, and he toppled back, his white cassock stained red. Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish rightist and a murderer who had earlier written a letter threatening to kill John Paul, was trying to follow through. The bullet passed within millimeters of a major artery and within inches of several vital organs. "Mary, my mother," John Paul gasped as he collapsed. Doctors...
...think a lot of the concerns that the faculty has brought up rang true with the students, mostly that Harvard is too often run like a corporation instead of a school,” he said. “A lot of students feel that President Summers is out of touch with their needs...
...overseas chefs reacting to Singapore's fusion backlash? Michelin-starred chef Vineet Bhatia, of London's modern Indian restaurant Rasoi Vineet Bhatia, was shocked when he flew in to be guest-chef for a week at local haute Indian restaurant Rang Mahal. "To call something fusion in Singapore is taboo," he says, "because people think it is bastardized food." Culinary faddists be warned: if Singapore's chefs are any indication, you'd best send back that salmon tikka pizza and get your nose out of the lemongrass lobster bisque...