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Everyone talks about not wanting to be “that kid” in section, but few people have actually called him up on his dorm phone to talk. Until now! Sam Teller ’08 met up with That Kid in the women’s restroom in Sever, the location of his red phone. Sam Teller: In section, you once said, “Reality is an illusion created by the proto-industrialist class of late 17th-century Europe.” What’s your favorite color? That Kid: To summarize, on page...
After Sept. 11, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud observed a wedge being driven between his native culture and the United States, he said yesterday in a phone interview from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Educated in the United States at Syracuse University, Alwaleed also has deep financial ties to U.S. companies and said he was shocked and saddened by the Sept. 11 attacks. He tried to donate to the Twin Towers Fund shortly after the attacks, but then-Mayor of New York Rudolph W. Giuliani rejected the donation after Alwaleed issued a statement arguing that...
...days are shorter, the nights longer. A cold wind blows off the Charles. It’s that time of year when FM stays in, draws a bubble bath, pours a glass of merlot, and indulges our wants and needs. We take the big red clunker (the phone) and an elegant leatherbound notebook (a backup phone) into the bath, run the suds, and kick back with a man. A real man—and no one knows what makes one of those like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. After all, who better to riff...
Fee’s cell phone rang. “Yes? Yes, Officer, Fee here. Right-oh. Yes, we lost a member of our team today. Yes, on I-95…that’s right. No, no, I don’t think anyone can really pick her up at the moment, you see, this is a very important...she has a broken leg? Hm. And is it set already? Okay. Sounds good. Do you think we could just take the cast off for, say, an hour or so? Just kidding! Haha! Okay, I’m sending...
Silva rushed to get contact information for the 911 caller so they could talk without interception. In addition to his duties as a dispatcher, Wornum must handle whatever complications arise on the spot. He dropped his relaxed demeanor and acquired a sense of immediate purpose, placing a quick phone call to get the button repaired as quickly as possible. He says it is sometimes necessary to be brusque in order to convey the urgency of the situation to the repair company...