On one recent call, the computer asked the prisoner for his name.

"I was laid off the week after Thanksgiving," she said during one recent call.

The most recent calls have been coming from Brazil.

The 115,000 recent calls resulted in 95,000 bookings, another record.

As with all recent calls to his number, his machine was not calling back.

Later, he added, "And there had been recent calls for the investigation to be taken over because it was taking too long."

In a recent call on the party line, the talk turned to the cost of Baghdad hotel rooms.

This led to recent calls for the market to open up in terms of transparency and regulation.

Perhaps he'd been totally oblivious of his brother's recent close call.

"Three murders in one trip," he said of a recent call.