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...summiteers cut their deliberations to two days (26-27) in the remote and exclusive resort of Kana-naskis in the Canadian Rockies - enough to stymie the protesters...
...have been scaling back. eBay vice president Jeff Skoll, who commands a $2.1 billion net worth, pared his contributions from $47.5 million in 1999 to a still hefty $39 million in 2000. The cutbacks came as eBay's stock lost more than 70% of its value last year. At Kana Communications, a troubled software maker whose shares have fallen more than 98% from their 52-week high, the $1 million worth of stock that vice president Michael Wolfe pledged to Stanford a year ago nearly evaporated. By the time the school received and sold the stock, its value had fallen...
...ranks, they had to reach out. They also had to appeal to patriotism because the pay for out-of-town dancers was only $500 plus free room and board for three weeks of rehearsals and the show itself. It was enough to lure Anna Kuni and her twin sister Kana, who perform as the Cherry Blossoms, Redd Foxx's opening act in Las Vegas, ending up clad in top hats and tails, period. In the Coliseum they wore more. "We wanted to be part of the Olympics," said Anna, who with her sister came to this country from Tokyo...
...Continent's recession has dragged on, many West Europeans have begun looking for scapegoats and have found them among their minorities. Suddenly the Turks, Pakistanis and Algerians are no longer individuals: they are Kana-ken, nig-nogs and bougnouls. Occasionally the prejudice goes from verbal violence to physical: a gang attack, an anonymous bullet, a bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing...
...Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere bonds. In the time of Hiroshima's agony he had found a new work. One day he noticed five small schoolchildren, dressed in rags and sitting on boxes in the midst of the rubble. In front of them, their teacher was drawing kana characters (syllable symbols) with a charcoal stick on a piece of slate. The sight changed Matsui's plans instantly. "Kore da!" he said to himself. "This is it!" Hiroshima's children needed books: he would print them...