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...idea came to him while he was a sophomore at Harvard, when he wanted to delve into the world of opera appreciation (yes, opera) but didn't know where to start. Shahabi said he was looking for an online repository of thoughts but could only come across the occassional useful blog post or two if he was really lucky...
...girl who was an opera singer," he said, "[so Dantoon] literally came as a need." See? Urgent...
...list of criteria. The name had to have no preexisting meaning, it had to be easy to spell, it had to have the potential to be a verb, it could be no longer than two syllables, and so on. After spending many months putting random syllables together, Shahabi came upon "Dantoon...
...Then he suddenly stood up, came near me, gave me a high five, and shouting “Done!” he flew straight out of the window. Yes, out of the closed window! And by the time I looked out, I saw him happily flying free as a bird downstream over the Charles...
...time progressed, there was little sign of preparations for those elections. Then came the bloodshed at the stadium. And in October, the junta announced a massive deal with a group called the China Investment Fund (CIF), which promised to fund $7 to $9 billion worth of infrastructure projects in Guinea in exchange for bauxite and iron mining concessions. (Guinea has some of the world's largest bauxite deposits.) Idrissa Cherif, Camara's spokesman, says the first batch of Chinese money has now arrived and will be spent on "electricity, water, roads and the like." (See life on the Streets...