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...unveiled Microsoft's largest investment outside the U.S., vowing to pour $400 million into Indian IT development a day after pledging $100 million to fight aids in the country. As a token of appreciation for Gates' generosity, residents of the technology hub of Hyderabad greeted him by erecting an eight-foot, inflatable condom...
Allowing Red Cross officials to visit the Cuban camps will do much to ensure appropriate living conditions as well as to maintain world opinion in our favor, an important asset in the campaign against terrorism. The outdoor six- by eight-foot wire cages are acceptable as a temporary measure, and a permanent indoor facility is currently under construction. In the meantime, however, adequate sanitary conditions must be maintained in the outdoor cages, and the standards of treatment of prisoners afforded by the Geneva conventions should be fully implemented...
President Lawrence H. Summers dropped by the cheerleaders’ tailgate, where the squad feasted on an eight-foot sub and cookies. His 11-year-old daughters had seen them on the field and wanted autographs. Summers reciprocated and took photos with some of the cheerleaders...
...prince is trying to unload a couple of very strange items, which might be called knickknacks if they weren?t so staggeringly expensive and weird. First up, an eight-foot, bronze-plated Trojan horse, which apparently already sold for $1,470 (sorry, folks). He?s also auctioning off a slew of gold-plated toilet paper holders, trash cans, Jacuzzis and shower heads. If you?re not into anything that flashy, you can go for the more tasteful marble Jacuzzis, each of which will reportedly run you only $300. Also up for grabs: A full-size pool table...
Despite rumors of more aggressive protests, Tuesday morning was hot and uneventful. At the First Union Center, behind three walls of eight-foot chain-link fence, were police in cars every 30 feet. Franklin D. Roosevelt park, where the March For Economic Human Rights had ended the day before, was enclosed by another perimeter of fencing, and more police. Only one entrance, at 20th Street, remained open. At the southwest corner, more than 300 yards from the convention center across a highway, a parking lot, four more fences and hundred of police, was a fenced-in enclosure dubbed "the protest...