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When the first set of what Despair called Demotivator images began circulating around the country via e-mail, the young company had to scramble to establish paternity. With some help from Yahoo, which named Despair a pick of the week, orders began to flow in for posters, coffee mugs, notepads, desk plaques--$500,000 worth in 1999, $900,000 in 2000 and slightly more than $1 million last year. Now headquartered in Austin, Texas, and running lean (everything from printing to shipping is outsourced, and Justin, 31, is both CEO and the sole paid employee), Despair is on track...
...said. “When you do that, your confidence just rises and everyone feels more comfortable on the ice. We’re the ones who want to set the pace of the game, and make them play our game, and we’ve been able to establish that most of this year...
...need to play with that sense of urgency, especially in someone else’s building,” Mazzoleni said. “You need to step up and establish that sense of energy, and I think we did that...
...says. The surprise visit to Assem's Duisberg flat was one of a score of searches carried out across Germany that morning, as police raided homes and offices belonging to members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party), a 50-year-old pan-Islamic political organization that seeks to establish a modern version of the caliphate that ruled parts of the Arab world from Muhammad's death until 1924, when Turkey's Kemal Atatürk officially laid it to rest. The police visited Assem, Hizb ut-Tahrir's "representative member" in Germany, as part of their investigation...
...Bush Administration assumes that Saddam Hussein has active weapons programs that he plans to conceal from your inspectors. Does UNMOVIC share that assumption? I wouldn't say that we have any assumption at all. Nor do we give any benefit of the doubt. We have to try to establish the facts. I'm not contesting [that Iraq has ongoing weapons of mass destruction programs]. I'm also not confirming it. We have to go by evidence. The Iraqis live in a tense situation. If there is something, they would be gambling not to present...