Word: visiting
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...bequest comes a year and three days after Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Harvard. During his visit he announced the donation of Twenty-Four Histories, a classic work on Chinese history that was newly-published with comments by Mao Zedong, to the library...
...heart of Barksdale's testimony was a June 21, 1995, meeting between Netscape and Microsoft to discuss the Internet browser market. It was at that meeting, Netscape says, that Microsoft crossed the line from aggressive competitor to rapacious monopolist. "It was like a visit by Don Corleone," Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen recalled later. "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." Barksdale charged in his testimony that Microsoft's goal at the meeting was to illegally divide the browser market, keeping the lion's share for itself. "I have never been...
...state senate. The five-term Democrat's law-and-order views resonated with the folks of rural Putnam County along with his distinctive country twang. Early last week, though, Burks was silenced, fatally shot in the head on his hog farm while readying his pumpkin patch for an annual visit from schoolchildren. After a few days' search and a night of questioning, police announced an arrest and a murder charge. The suspect: Byron Looper, the local tax assessor--and more important, Burks' opponent in the upcoming election...
...agency retains a mystique in the Arab world. "For Arafat, it's a big deal to be dealing with the head of the CIA," says a senior State Department official. The P.L.O. chairman and Tenet have taken pains to cultivate each other. During Tenet's first visit to the West Bank in 1996, Arafat arranged for Tenet, who is Greek Orthodox, to tour Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, guided by the Greek Orthodox priests who help...
...entertained at Turpmtine would ever come again? On the other hand, if he refused--then suppose he lost Turpmtine, lost everything he had, including his house on Blackland Road--was wiped out! demolished!--the result would be the same, wouldn't it! No one would come to visit him then, either...