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...shelves. "We need a new breed of social entrepreneur to address the technology needs of the world's underprivileged," said the late Dewang Mehta, a visionary who headed India's software trade body, nasscom, until his sudden death in mid-April. The Bangalore Seven has formed a for-profit spin-off, picoPeta, to manage the Simputer's commercial birth. Deshpande gave a spirited presentation at last year's World Economic Summit in Davos. But drumming up actual investment on the downside of a boom is a tough task, especially with a business plan that allows for easy access...
...cartoon shows on Fox, no other network has had much success, critical or commercial, with attempts at a prime time animated series. But whenever this point is made, the reviewer is undoubtedly forgetting “Daria,” the “Beavis and Butthead” spin-off that has consistently been one of the best, most underrated programs on television...
...with funds to support the Palestinians -- the Tehran summit ended up being mostly about Iran's regional ambitions. Delegates from 34 Islamic countries assembled to hear Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demand the annihilation of Israel and cast the Palestinian struggle as an Islamic cause, a spin that lends Tehran's bid for leadership some legitimacy.Full Story...
...haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...
...commitment to Taiwan, but this is not administration policy. And conservatives are falling in line behind White House efforts to tamp down any impression that Bush was announcing a new line. Still, the brouhaha is unfortunate for Bush, because in order to control the damage in Beijing, Washington's spin doctors are forced, essentially, to persuade the Chinese not to take too literally the words that come out of the President's mouth...