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...signal sent by the Justice Department is particularly disturbing in that it seems to represent a coup for Microsoft’s formidable lobbying operations. The company and its employees spent $4.7 million last year in donations to national political parties and candidates—nearly two thirds of that to money going to Republicans—and another $6 million on lobbyists, including top presidential advisor Ralph Reed. In June, the Justice Department announced that it would seek to settle a Clinton-administration suit against the tobacco industry, which donated millions to the GOP in the last election cycle...
DIED. DUONG VAN MINH, 86, Vietnamese general known as "Big Minh," who organized the 1963 coup to overthrow South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem; in Pasadena, Calif. Big Minh (so called in part for his 6-ft., 200-lb. size), believed to have ordered Diem's assassination--with two raised fingers of his right hand--went on to become the last President of South Vietnam...
...that is, start turning into specialized tissue. After six months of watching them divide and multiply without undergoing any change, he was sure he had mastered the art of growing his life-giving seeds and set about writing the scientific paper in Science that alerted the world to his coup...
...page to a young prince, known as Zhu Di. He was castrated and destined for a life serving with other eunuchs in the imperial household, guarding the harem and offering wisdom to the dynastic clan. Somehow the prince and the castrate became friends and when Zhu Di launched a coup d'Etat in 1402, Ma was at his side. The prince, who became the Yongle Emperor, awarded Ma an honorific surname Zheng and made him head eunuch. When the Emperor sketched out a plan for Chinese ships to sail to the Indian Ocean, he named his loyal charge to lead...
...years ago, for the first time in my life, I felt that my esteemed fellow countrymen were not simply a mob, but had become a people. In standing up to the communist coup, they behaved like a people with great dignity, with a great desire for freedom. Unfortunately, that delusion also collapsed quite quickly...