Andy MacPhail, then the team president, and Commissioner Bud Selig phoned Bartman with messages of support.
"The high commissioner had phoned to say that [Awoonor's] son Afetsi was injured in an attack at the mall, and that they had lost track of [Awoonor].
But late Friday, after a reporter called the Department of Environmental Protection, the commissioner, Bradley M. Campbell, phoned to say his agency had decided to release $50,000 for emergency stabilization work.
As he warmed to his subject — the Kick — he recalled that under orders from Pete Rozelle, then the N.F.L. commissioner, Tex Schramm phoned him to apologize for saying he had an unfair advantage.
Nor did it draw an ambulance for 31 minutes — and only after Ms. Quinn, surrounded by reporters and cameras, phoned the police commissioner directly for assistance.
The sex discrimination commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, says she has phoned 24 of the most powerful men in government and business to make a personal plea on family violence.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo went on national television, acknowledged that she had phoned an election commissioner during voting for president last year and apologized for a "lapse in judgment".
Several politicians have recently started to see changes in the commissioner: courtesy phone calls that would not have been placed before; a receptive tone rather than a skeptical one.
Mr. Cameron says that his chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, behaved entirely properly in refusing to accept a briefing from John Yates, the assistant police commissioner, on phone hacking, last September.
"I will be phoning the commissioner of police; I understand he's looking for me," Mr. Tsvangirai said as the cameras rolled.
