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Since its founding as a telegraph company in 1851, Western Union has pioneered the stock ticker (1867), the electronic money transfer (1871), the credit card (1914), the singing telegram (1933) and intercity facsimile service (1935). But since 1995, when it became a division of the Denver-based First Data Corp., the world's biggest credit-card processor, Western Union has focused on electronic payments. Western Union processed nearly a billion checks and money orders in 2001 and is the biggest mortgage-payment processor in the U.S. It has also become a leader in the gift-card market, with clients including...
...Elvis knew. Earlier in the day he had wished the Beatles well in a telegram that couldn't help being symbolic. Elvis spoke as a product of the '50s. After the watershed Sullivan show, '60s pop culture, and all that it portended, both exhilarating and tragic, was in full...
...working at the legislature. A reporter called from the New York Times and asked my assistant if I had a comment about Roe, and the assistant asked, "Should she?" So that's how we found out we'd won the case 7-2. The Supreme Court sent me a telegram - they sent it COD, or collect - telling me they would send the opinion. I didn't want to wait, so called someone I knew in Washington and sent them over to the courthouse to read the opinion...
...still standing. Hogwarts Castle's mile-high central staircase continues to twist and turn according to its own whims. Columbus has included all of the book's greatest moments: Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, 14, in whose voice you can hear the raspy effects of puberty) receives a "howler" telegram from his mother, which screams almost as loudly as the Mandrakes. He also coughs up a nifty series of giant slugs. Moaning Myrtle haunts the girls' restroom and dives through toilets, making a mess. It all adds up to a two-hour-and-42-minute movie, which is nine minutes longer...
...censorship may have compromised his science. "But this was going on the university's website, so I had to." Learning all of this has made me feel better. So has hearing the most popular joke among the French - one that did make me laugh: An Alsatian went to a telegram office, took out a blank form, and wrote: "Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof. Woof." The clerk politely told the dog: "There are only nine words here. You could send another 'Woof' for the same price." "But," the dog replied, "that would make no sense at all." Before...