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...Combs' legal team was seated on the front right-hand side of the courtroom. There were nine people, including Combs, at the table. The prosecutors' table at the left - perhaps to give a David-vs.-Goliath impression to the jury - had just one person seated at it, assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos. All of Combs' people were dressed in suits that varied in color from banker's black all the way to banker's gray. Puffy himself was dressed in a gray suit with a thin blue checkerboard pattern. When I first saw him enter the courtroom I thought...
...Advising vs. Teaching...
...imports and assuring its customers that under the French Golden Arches, they'd get French meat that came "from the farm" (rather than from some factory or laboratory). Clearly, the plucky little farmer had managed to don the mantle of Astérix, the cartoon character whose mythical David-vs.-Goliath fight against the Roman occupiers symbolizes French national pride. Some 45,000 people from all over the country crowded into Millau for a protest rally during his trial - and the local McDonald's kept its doors closed throughout the two days of hearings...
There were a lot of unnecessarily broken hearts around Harvard Square last Saturday night. After the sold-out men's basketball game vs. Princeton drew to a dramatic close, the Harvard faithful dragged themselves from Lavietes Pavilion in despair, looking like something they believed in had let them down...
With the twin aims of improving security and eliminating ever-increasing waits at airports, airlines and customs departments are starting to turn to Spy vs. Spy technologies. "Identifying people remotely," says Dominic Purvis, manager of cathaypacific.com, "would allow the staff to focus more on service." With the number of air travelers estimated to double in the next decade, pressure to automate such human-intensive formalities as flight check-in and immigration processing is growing...