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...Verdes, authorities reported Friday that two boys, ages 12 and 13, were arrested this week for allegedly stealing 171 Pokemon trading cards from classmates at their middle school and from students at three nearby elementary schools...." "The box office surge follows a phone frenzy last week. The Warner Bros. switchboard took about 70,000 calls a minute after a televised offer for free tickets to the 'Pokemon' premiere last Saturday. The flurry crashed the studio's voice mail system...." "'Kids love the fact it's their own language,' a toy company rep said. 'They really enjoy becoming experts at something...
What's bad for the U.S. trade balance could be very good for Pat Buchanan - at least for a little while. The isolationist presidential candidate may want to put a few more volunteers on his switchboard after Thursday's Commerce Department announcement that the U.S. racked up a $24.4 billion trade deficit in September - 3.7 percent higher than it was the month before. That's bad news for American manufacturers, who have lost a half million jobs since 1998 as worldwide exports of U.S. goods continue to fall...
...SWITCHBOARD www.switchboard.com Locate people who share your surname in this nationwide directory...
...Currie helped keep the relationship secret. When the President wanted to talk with Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Currie would dial the call herself rather than go through White House operators, who keep logs of presidential calls made through the switchboard. When Ms. Lewinsky phoned and Ms. Currie put the President on the line, she did not log the call, though the standard procedure was to note all calls, personal and professional. According to Secret Service uniformed officers, Ms. Currie sometimes tried to persuade them to admit Ms. Lewinsky to the White House compound without making a record...
Clearly, I am not the only person burned by bad computer-dispensed advice. Map sites are only as good as their data, and roads have a way of changing. Indeed, on Switchboard's mapsonus.com--which I consider the best of the freebie directions sites--users are asked to click on a form and agree not to blame the website for mistakes. "Our routes can be, well, creative," the disclaimer advises...