Contacts can be given additional prioritization by specifying them as favorites (by tapping the "heart" icon in the contact's tile), which also adds them to the favorites screen that can be accessed by swiping your finger.

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Democrats, emboldened, have called for deeper probes (last month, Republicans headed off an additional investigation into WMD-related contacts between the vice-president's office and the CIA, and another into whether America co-operated sufficiently with United Nations weapons inspectors before the war).

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