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...telling her not to call again--a request that telemarketers are required under federal law to respect (but one that many nonetheless ignore). "Clearly this is a privacy war, and many times the phone companies are the arms dealers," says Robert Bulmash of Private Citizen Inc., based in Naperville, Ill., which campaigns against telemarketing. Like many arms dealers, the phone companies work both sides of the conflict: they avidly sell their services by phone and also peddle their customers' phone numbers to other telemarketers...
Newspapers, mostly town and regional ones, were attracted by the straightforward Q&A format, and they liked the price too. At $3 to $5 a week, even small local papers like the Walnut (Ill.) Leader (circ. 5,000) could afford it. An editor who recently changed jobs took "Savvy Senior" with him. "One of the first things I did was to call Jim and say, 'Hey, I want to get this in our paper too,'" says Wayne Frazer, general manager of the Spencer County Journal Democrat in Rockport, Ind. "People feel like they're getting their information from a friend...
...Hmong say they are too ill-equipped to strike back. Most of their fighters are armed with ancient M-16s and AK-47s, and the heaviest weapons at their disposal are two geriatric M-79 grenade launchers. Ammunition is mostly dug up from former U.S. air bases. According to Moua, only a third of the rounds are actually live, negating Hmong chances of launching a viable offensive. As for the Lao government, which declined to talk to TIME, it denies allegations that it is decimating Hmong rebels and blames them for much of the unrest in the country. It insists...
...Fernandez, this is a ridiculously ill-conceived idea, not to mention a shoddily-written essay. You should be ashamed of yourself. On behalf of the reading public, I demand a thorough apology and call upon the editors of this magazine to publicly castigate...
...sufficient,” said James P. M. Paquette ’06, who said the proposal was “ill-conceived” because the alternative course would be “another biased class,” and two biased classes would not cancel each other...