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Another of Gates' vacation companions is Ann Winblad, the software entrepreneur and venture capitalist he dated during the 1980s. They met in 1984 at a Ben Rosen-Esther Dyson computer conference and started going on "virtual dates" by driving to the same movie at the same time in different cities and discussing it on their cell phones. For a few years she even persuaded him to stop eating meat, an experiment he has since resolutely abandoned...
...Asia-Pacific region's political and business leaders, as well as many of those in the U.S., where he co-chairs the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee with former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker. More important, his family bridges the chasms separating the communist mainland from capitalist Hong Kong and a defiant Taiwan...
...Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled the plug. And though there was plenty of anti-Semitism, isolationism and fear mongering in Coughlin's speeches, there was little irony: even as he used all this blessed new technology, he damned the capitalist economy that produced...
...detractors are everywhere. To rival politicians Chubais is an opportunist most dedicated to his own advancement. And among disgruntled ordinary citizens, he is reviled as the mastermind of a flawed privatization program that gave away vast wealth to a new capitalist elite at the expense of the general population...
...measures and restrictions are as foolish as they are hypocritical. Cuba poses absolutely no security threat to the U.S. and is not even sponsoring revolutions in other Third World nations. Although the U.S. would like to see Castro toppled and replaced by a more democratic, and more importantly, more capitalist government, official embargoes and covert C.I.A. sponsored sabotage haven't worked for more than 30 years. Why will these efforts be effective now? The laws that ban ordinary contact, such as visits, between Cubans and Americans serve no rational purpose...