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...world will celebrate United Nations Day tomorrow. The Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will release a brief note expressing cautious pride at the state of humanity while warning us about unforeseen challenges in the future. From Argentina to Harvard to Zimbabwe, ceremonies will express the sentiments and thoughts of age-old cultures; music will play, symbolizing the harmony of cooperation; politicians will deliver flowery speeches. Oh, and perhaps ten to twenty people will be killed, and many hundreds wounded, in Israel and in the Palestinian territories...
...debate itself garnered little response from reporters: There was a muffled "Ooooh," when Bush made a pointed reference to Gore's age-old claim of inventing the Internet, but generally it was a quiet group. And that level of attention is probably testimony to the debate's importance: If you can get a room filled with hundreds of reporters to shut up and listen, you've already won a major victory...
Meanwhile, the age-old rivalry is heating up on the campaign trail. Earlier this month, the Eli-ticket of Bush and Cheney were overheard referring to New York Times reporter (and former Crimson president) Adam Clymer '58 as a "major league asshole...
...This is New York, of course, where just about everything is bigger, louder and faster (at least in the state's southeast corner). The Empire State's U.S. Senate races have always commanded more fanfare and more money than in almost any other. And this year, that age-old trend has been ratcheted up to the nth degree. It's not just the enormity of the contributions; it's the scale of the whole race: As if a statewide campaign is being fought on a national canvas and no one seems to think it's the slightest bit strange...
Pittsburgh venture capitalists wanted nothing to do with it. Despite Kirila's charisma and his successful start-up, they saw in him a college dropout from a depressed steel valley. He faced an age-old paradox: his idea was too big to get funded, but he couldn't prove its worth unless he had the millions to start building stuff...