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To: greenspirit who wrote (867)	1/29/2002 8:28:07 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 3602

Point well taken.... JLA

To: greenspirit who wrote (867)	1/29/2002 11:14:31 AM
From: DOUG H	Respond to of 3602

There is an interesting irony to this story ending up on this thread, on this subject. Afterall, it was Microsoft, not Enron, cliftons DOJ spent so much time and energy on trying to topple. msnbc.com Bill’s Biggest Bet Yet The richest people on earth have created a fund of more than $24 billion to save the poorest from disease. How much of a difference can Bill and Melinda Gates make? By Geoffrey Cowley NEWSWEEK Feb. 4 issue — How far can you travel in a day? American Airlines Flight 657 covers the distance from New York to Haiti—roughly a light-year, in human terms—in four hours. THE FLIGHT IS PACKED most weekday mornings. But except for a few missionaries, it doesn’t seem to attract many northerners. The State Department’s online guidebook is not particularly enticing. “There are no ‘safe areas’ in Haiti,” it advises. “Crime, already a problem, is growing... with reports of armed robberies and break-ins, kidnappings, murders and car hijackings becoming more frequent. The police are poorly equipped and unable to respond quickly to calls for assistance. Criminals have kidnapped, shot, maimed and killed several U.S. citizens in recent years.” Even if you escape the criminals you must avoid crowds, the advisory cautions, because “the rhetoric of some activists and popular organizations has been anti-foreign, and the Haitian government has failed to contain or condemn certain violent and dangerous situations.”