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While technology has greatly expanded the telemarketers' reach, it has also given consumers weapons to fight back. Caller ID--which is used by 38% of U.S. households today, up from 30% in 1998--at first allowed users to detect calls from salespeople and other pests. But telemarketers learned to mask...
"When House leaders learned about my agreement...they proved tantrums aren't restricted to the 2-years-and-younger crowd." CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Republican Senate Finance chairman, on his effort to reduce the size of President Bush's tax-cut package
A Stubborn Wall Melts Away CYPRUS One morning last week, Tina Pantakis, a pensioner from the Greek Cypriot town of Limassol, dressed in her Sunday best and rummaged through old photographs. She was looking for pictures of her ancestral village, Vassilia, which she had not seen in nearly 30 years...
Samantha A. Goodwin ’03 learned a tough lesson on a recent date: sometimes when you drop the H-bomb, you get burned.
“I was hitting my spots well today, something I haven’t been doing recently,” Brotemarkle said. “And I got my changeup to work, which is a pitch I learned just recently.”