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...talks with aid organizations and foreign governments. "This and that department, the World Bank, human rights blah blah blah, over and over, it becomes so boring," he says. He's also courting corporate America. In the last few years, Kagame has met with the bosses at Microsoft, Google, eBay, Starbucks, Costco, Merrill Lynch and Bechtel. He's hosted Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz and CEO Jim Donald, and in March was the star speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked by the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds of Change in Rwanda | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...casual fling. Either in a private or philanthropic capacity, or as part of doing business, American CEOs are now assisting Rwanda on energy, water, a railroad from Tanzania and IT. Scott Ford, the CEO of Alltel, is advising the Minister of Infrastructure, Google is donating software while eBay decided to build an ecolodge. Since March, the hills of Rwanda have been teeming with thousands of bright green "coffee bikes," designed by mountain-bike maker Tom Ritchey with a lengthened frame to carry a sack of coffee. This isn't all about altruism. Illinois-based stock trader Dan Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds of Change in Rwanda | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...textbook for $24 on Ebay,” he said, referring to the introductory economics text by Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, which sells for $167.95 on Amazon.com. “But it takes time, and I need this book...

Author: By Anna L. Tong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sneaky Students Fly the Coop | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...already been asked about the bathroom twice since he started his shift less than an hour before this reporter got to him. "People seem to have a weird fascination with it," he says. Indeed, sheets of toilet paper from the bathroom have apparently made their way for sale on eBay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visiting Larry Craig's Stall | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...lived to open another, he planned on making it look as much as possible like the original - tight walls adorned with a cacophony of bumper stickers and concert announcements, a mini lounge area, and the tiniest of stages. In the meantime, he auctioned off artifacts on eBay that didn't make the cut. An 11" x 15" emergency light box decorated with stickers sold for $310. A 12" x 13.5" framed section of CBGB's graffitied wall sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CBGB's Hilly Kristal: An Original to the End | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

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