21.   At first she calls an old boyfriend.

22.   At first they called themselves Texassee.

23.   Barry Aarons, a top Symington aide, called her at home almost immediately.

24.   A dozen years ago, White decided he would like to attend a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway and called someone at the track for a pass.

25.   A favorite story is one she tells about the time her mother called her at work and told Pierce she was needed for another medical emergency involving her son.

26.   A week later Kate called me at the office.

27.   Almost a week later, my breast surgeon called me at work to say the tests came back positive for breast cancer.

28.   But gypsy run-through was a new one to me, so I called Ostrow at the University of Houston.

29.   But on Thursday, Gunderson said Dole called him at home Wednesday night and reassured him.

30.   But the formulation of the idea seemed to me to have got things backward, and so I called him at his farm in North Dakota.