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...point of the site? To have a laugh, says its creator, Jonathan Percy, an online-advertising producer in San Francisco. Like many others, Percy was transfixed by the bizarre drama and bought the domain name for $9.95 within minutes of the balloon's landing. "There's something kind of funny about a website that just has one single little purpose like that," he says. "I always laugh when I see those." (Read "A Brief History of Do-It-Yourself Ballooning...
...fear with inflammatory rhetoric that's not based in fact. Dozens of companies listened and pulled their ads. It's clear that much of corporate America already knows the answer to the question your article poses. Indeed, Glenn Beck is bad for America. James Rucker, Executive Director, ColorofChange.org, San Francisco...
...Lynn Htut, a former Burmese diplomat and army major who defected to the U.S. in 2005, claims Grandfather personally ordered the massacre of 81 men, women and children on a remote Burmese island in 1998. Five years later, Than Shwe's thugs attacked the convoy of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at Depayin, west of Mandalay, killing or injuring dozens of her supporters...
...house arrest after an American man swam uninvited to her lakeside home. Her initial three-year prison sentence was commuted to 18 months of house arrest because, said the order read aloud in court, Than Shwe "desires ... to exercise leniency upon her." (Read "Burma Court Finds Aung San Suu Kyi Guilty...
...homecomings of his own. His father, also named Carlos, was once Peru's central banker but was forced to leave the country following a military coup in October 1968. "He went from being Peru's central banker to an assistant branch manager at an office in San Francisco," says Rodriguez-Pastor, who was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Dartmouth. His father rose through the ranks of Wells Fargo and returned to Peru as Finance Minister in 1983. In 1990, he started what became Interbank...