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...typical 1000-meter race, meet officials ring a bell to indicate the start of the fifth and final lap. But on Saturday, the bell rang at the actual finish, so all the runners—led by Traugott—continued...
...agreement would at least allow the 10 candidate countries to get in before negotiations with Turkey open. "The French were worried about facing the Turkish question at the same time they were getting their Parliament to ratify the new members," says a Brussels diplomat. The decision rang alarm bells in Britain, which wants faster action on Turkey and eyes the Franco-German alliance with concern. On the eve of the last European Council meeting in October, Chirac and Schröder worked out a deal that assured France's princely take of E.U. agricultural subsidies through 2006, causing a contretemps...
...faithful husband for nine years, but I now felt powerless to stop the momentum. Polly moved out of our hotel room, and we tried to keep the affair quiet. That week I shot during the day and saw Cybill at night. On Wednesday of that week, the phone rang in the middle of the night--my father was dead. I was alone, and I just burst into tears. It was a terrible, dark moment...
...September, the phone rang in the Washington office of a former U.S. government official with close ties to the Iraqi exile community. On the other end of the line was an old Iraqi friend, now living in Europe, whom the former official had met when he was stationed in the Middle East in the 1990s. There were some pleasantries; then the Iraqi cut to the chase. In the past two months, he said, four senior Iraqi security officials had contacted him and asked if he could help them establish lines of communication to the U.S. so that if war started...
...first year as a young assistant professor at Harvard, the phone in my office rang,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail. “The voice on the other end said, ‘This is John Rawls, R-A-W-L-S.’ It was as if God himself had phoned to invite me to lunch, and spelled his name just in case I didn’t know...