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...Culkin, now split from Macaulay's mother (they never married) and living in Phoenix, Ariz., won't talk about his son. But his girlfriend, reached by TIME, relates that Kit went to London to see Macaulay onstage (getting a ticket under an assumed name) and sent him a congratulatory telegram. "Thankfully I didn't see it until a week after opening," says Macaulay. "I think it's funny that he hasn't tried to make contact with me in years. The one time he tries to, it's in this very cold telegram, basically wishing me luck just because...
...techno-catch-up, America's workforce is fast discovering the benefits of instant messaging too. An estimated 20 million employees, representing half of all big U.S. companies, routinely fire off pop-up missives in lieu of cumbersome conference calls or e-mail--which now seems as plodding as a telegram. "This is no longer about teenagers and chat," says John Patrick, vice president for Internet technology at IBM, whose Lotus Development unit produces Sametime, the leading instant-messaging program for business use. "If I were to check right now," Patrick says, "there are probably 100 [instant-message] meetings going...
...Prodigal Summer there is, despite the relaxed tone, Kingsolver's by now trademark didacticism. She does not subscribe to the view that novelists with a message ought to send a telegram. It can be no accident that three of the four main characters in the novel have worked as teachers in the past and aren't at all shy about giving lectures...
...Prodigal Summer" there is, despite the relaxed tone, Kingsolver's by now trademark didacticism. She does not subscribe to the view that novelists with a message ought to send a telegram. It can be no accident that three of the four main characters in the novel have worked as teachers in the past and aren't at all shy about giving lectures...
Kate A. Agresta '02 was there to watch her roommate Becca P. Mercer '02 auction off a "singing, tap dancing telegram" from their third roommate Heather G. Childs...