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News that the U.S. government has been tracking Americans' phone calls created static among our readers. Some criticized the move, while others hoped that it would yield a direct line to terrorists...
...once a diffidently autarchic appendage to the Continent has become an important economic locomotive for all of Europe. Spain's economy grew 3.4% last year, over twice the euro-zone average, and is expected to best the average again this year by a full percentage point. Spanish companies like phone-giant Telefónica, construction and infrastructure consortium Grupo Ferrovial, real estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial concluded a €15 billion takeover bid for BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick airports. But Holguera...
...DWYER AND KEVIN FLYNN To a helpless audience of millions, the Twin Towers were silent black boxes. 102 Minutes makes them speak, using the e-mails and phone calls that poured out of the buildings in the last frenzied moments on Sept. 11, 2001, to show how rescue workers, stock brokers, security guards and secretaries fought through a maze of locked doors and blocked stairways as the clock ticked down. Sometimes the tersest fragments are the most eloquent, like the record of a 911 call that reads simply, "Female caller states they are stuck in elevator. States they are dying...
...could ever accuse DAVID LYNCH of making sense. The man who created Twin Peaks and has raised $1.6 million to promote the virtues of transcendental meditation is now peddling jarring ringtones for your cell phone at $4 a pop. Available starting this week on davidlynch.com--a site that also features the director, complete with pompadour, delivering daily weather reports--the so-called strangetones range in freakitude from a childlike voice repeating "My teeth are bleeding" to an overlord-type voice growling "I ... like ... to ... kill ... deer." Another ringtone, which consists of high-pitched screeching that sounds not unlike fingernails...
...extensions on my papers, but informed me that I had to get Larry’s approval to do so. I gingerly called his office and talked to his secretary, who said he was very busy that day but that she would try to squeeze in a quick phone call at some point in the day. Five minutes later, Larry was on the phone, and for a few minutes we discussed exactly what I should do, down to the minutiae of when I should ask to turn in each assignment. He could have just told his secretary that he would...