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...balked. In fact, Dicke's father was among Matchbid's foremost opponents, arguing that the Internet could destroy his business by increasing price transparency and driving down margins. Dicke tried everything to woo his father, including giving him a year's free membership in the exchange for his 70th birthday last September. "He couldn't convince his father - this was the message that was in the market," says Geibel. "Customers didn't trust...
...those few of us who do recognize Pi Day--and celebrate it separately from Albert Einstein's birthday, which is also March 14--will continue on our own, taking in its honor 3.14 slow drinks from a perfectly cylindrical mug. And we will imagine better times, when the whole nation (nay, the world) can join in a truly universal holiday--when 3/14 will...
...Zimbabwe, the top tough throws a party. Last week, as his government expelled two foreign journalists, President Robert Mugabe faced a new wave of international censure. His country bankrupt, its judiciary in tatters and the press and the opposition under increasing harassment, Mugabe threw himself a three-day 77th-birthday bash at Victoria Falls...
...stepping up the pressure to secure urban support-by intimidation and force if necessary-in order to hold a snap election this year, possibly in July, that will put him in power for another six years. If that is the case, he should look elsewhere for his next birthday party. By then, even Victoria Falls may be closed...
...seemed to be decorated with a rainbow after the display of firecrackers." KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, Pyongyang's official wire service, effusively describing Mother Nature's gift to Kim Jong Il on his 59th birthday...