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...honor of April Fool’s Day yesterday, members of the Harvard AIDS Coalition presented Senator John Kerry’s office with a giant 9 billion dollar check to show that AIDS is not a joke...
...coordinated by the national AIDS and human rights activist group Health Global Access Project. HAC, accompanied by alumni and students from Harvard Medical School and Boston University, rallied in Bowdoin Square in front of Sen. Kerry’s office before going in to present the check and discuss AIDS funding with Sen. Kerry’s Foreign Relations staffer Chris Wyman...
...AIDS is not in recession! Teach Kerry a lesson!” shouted the group of activists as they circled the square in front of the office, shaking the three-by-six and a half foot check in time with their chant...
Passersby stared at the string of zeroes on the check and turned their heads to keep looking even when the students were far behind them...
...most pirates can only dream of such riches. Mohamed, another pirate I meet in Nairobi, is in the city for a few days, he says, to check on his employers' investments. Wearing a cheap charcoal suit and dirty fake-leather shoes, this father of eight clearly doesn't make a lot from piracy. He is vague about his boss's investments and says they might be small stalls selling clothes or cheap hotels. Mohamed got across the border from Somalia by paying someone to hide him inside the back of a truck. "I'm not happy with it, but since...