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...spent 30 years foiling the plots of baddies from Russia, the Middle East and Northern Ireland. Rimington was the duty officer the night a Bulgarian émigré died of ricin poisoning after being stabbed with an umbrella tip by a Bulgarian secret agent while crossing London's Waterloo Bridge. Poor Liz Carlyle can't help but look like Matlock by comparison...
...clash between Bush and Kerry over Iraq, terrorism and national security has become a defining fault line. On the hustings last week, each candidate issued extraordinary indictments of his opponent's fitness to be Commander in Chief. "The President says he's a leader," Kerry told an audience in Waterloo, Iowa. "Well, Mr. President, look behind you. There's hardly anyone there." Less than 100 miles away, Bush questioned Kerry's steadfastness against the threat of terrorism: "You can't win a war when you don't believe you're fighting one." The sniping was more than rhetorical. In exchanges...
...considering institutions in the U.S., Canada, and England such as Georgia Tech, Cambridge University, and Waterloo University,” said Gotsman...
...long list of the rich and famous that RIM says includes George W. Bush, Sarah Jessica Parker, George Clooney and the Beckhams. "We got into a market where there was really nothing there," says Lazaridis, 43, who founded RIM in 1984 as a student at the University of Waterloo, near Toronto. Last year the number of people using a BlackBerry doubled, and in the three months through June alone, RIM shipped more than 500,000 devices, almost three times as many as a year earlier, according to research firm Gartner...
...although, even if they do, RIM still has a healthy software and services business, which brings in close to one-third of its revenues. BlackBerry's success has made Lazaridis wealthy enough to donate more than $100 million to his other passion--quantum computing research--at the University of Waterloo, where the former dropout is now chancellor. One more reason for techies to give him the thumbs-up. --By Mark Halper...