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...leaving him very close to the 117 needed to win-and his aides have said he has private commitments beyond the 91 that ensure his victory. So like a football team sitting on a lead, he's running a low-key campaign, mainly just talking to members on the phone to gauge their support. By contrast, Boehner and Shadegg have run more aggressive campaigns, with frequent television appearances and endless e-mails from their staffs highlighting endorsements and positive press they are receiving. As for their support, Boehner has only 47 members publicly backing him and Shadegg isn't releasing...
...resident of Australia's most isolated city, Perth, where she teaches cinema and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia, the author has herself become dependent on phone and e-mail. As with fellow West Australians Tim Winton and Elizabeth Jolley, isolation has brought its own literary rewards for Jones, 50. "It's a supportive writing community," she says of Perth, "and feels outside of the more pathological aspects of competition and anxiety that sometimes seem to me very conspicuously a part of Melbourne and Sydney." And it's perhaps no accident that the themes of distance and disclosure...
...said that the White House realizes the need to give a "clearer picture of where things are with the American people" leading up to Congressional hearings that begin Feb. 6. "I reject your characterization to suggest it's domestic spying," he added. "That's like saying someone making a phone call from inside the United States to another country is a domestic call. It is billed the international rate...
When C. William Jones took early retirement in 1990 after a 30-year career with a New York phone company, he expected his loyalty to be rewarded. But the firm he left is very different from the one he joined. Once owned by AT&T, New York Telephone Co. became NYNEX and then, in 2000, Verizon Communications. And at a time of ferocious competition in the industry, some of the benefits he says he was promised when he joined in 1959 have either not materialized or, most recently, been slashed. Retirees have to foot an ever larger part...
...Despite news reports that the program might include a vast data mining effort, Bush sought to portray it as limited. "I repeat to you, even though you hear words, 'domestic spying,' these are not phone calls within the United States," he said. "It's a phone call of an al Qaeda, known al Qaeda suspect, making a phone call into the United States. I'm mindful of your civil liberties, and so I had all kinds of lawyers review the process." In fact, as Bush had said moments before, the program also includes calls that originate in the United States...