But this too may be hard, since the commission's president is Romano Prodi, a fellow Italian and long-time foe of Mr Berlusconi, who says he will call him every day.

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When she told her primary-care doctor, he was so surprised she made him call the specialist, she says.

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But just before Super Tuesday, Fairey says, he got a call from the campaign telling him to go ahead and make a poster and distribute it in his typical guerrilla fashion.

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McDermott says he got a call from Hasso Plattner, who asked him to be the co-CEO of the company.

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Sinclair says he likes writing as it allows him to "call all the shots" like a director and "play all the characters" like an actor.

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She used to call him Tricky Nicky, or so he says.

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"I don't call him, he calls me, " says Elliot Maisel, an Alabama booster and the chief executive of Gulf Distributing Holdings, a beer wholesaler in Mobile.

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When Chris failed to return her calls years ago as a college freshman, she punched in a random number from his cellphone call list, reaching a girl in his dorm who woke him up and ordered him to call his mom, Ms. Berardi says.

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He says he received a call from the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Friday morning, warning him about a long list of potential federal regulations that he might be violating with the demo.

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