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...been asked to do. Hewlett Packard is Silicon Valley's alpha company, founded in a garage by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1938, when the area had far more peach trees than programmers. HP first produced oscilloscopes, then expanded to other testing and measuring instruments. It was a pocket-protector paradise, its culture defined by the HP way: paternal, collaborative, entrepreneurial, community minded and inconspicuous...
...Ammari and other budding Saudi politicians had thrown themselves into election campaigns that combined American-style spending with traditional Bedouin hospitality. Their promises included clean government, better services, and less pollution. Al Ammari spent $30,000 from his own pocket, mainly on campaign flyers, with his sister-in-law running his election website. Other candidates parted with hundreds of thousands of dollars, appealing to voters with lavish nightly lamb-and-rice banquets under canvas tents and ubiquitous billboards on Riyadh's modern highways. With political parties banned, the candidates broke roughly into four categories: urbane liberals like al Ammari; Islamic...
...into Vice President Cheney. He was in his overcoat and was clearly in a hurry. He muttered a brief hello to me as he asked an aide who had come up behind me, "Do you have it?" The aide handed him a letter, which he tucked into his pocket as he rushed out. As I would soon discover, the letter was the President's answer to the appeal sent by Senator Hagel and his three colleagues the week before. In his reply, the President restated his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, and then added, "I do not believe ... that...
...throw tantrums or sulk when they lose a game. And they often can do things and go places the child can't. Skateboard Guy, for example, described by one child in Taylor's study, is a tiny, invisible 11-year-old boy who sleeps in the child's shirt pocket and performs amazing skateboard tricks the child wishes he could...
...many poor fishermen will get boats, and how many beach resorts will be rebuilt? Who will benefit? Real assistance consists of organizing at the grass-roots level with the goal of putting aid money where it is needed and making sure it doesn't end up in the pocket of foreign contractors and owners of resorts. Naturally, few people have the skills and ability to do this; therefore, we shouldn't be surprised if very little of the money gets to those who really need it. Cary J. Colabrese Siena, Italy Millions of dollars have been donated to the tsunami...