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The WP lead says that Gates was "assailed" at the hearings, for suppressing competition, by some of the business rivals he appeared with, as well as by some senators.
The NYT front tells of a U.N. report just out disclosing that in certain parts of Africa one in four adults is infected with HIV--and most of them will die as a result because Africans cannot for the most part afford the combination drug therapies that can keep the virus in check--and that worldwide, AIDS now rivals the greatest epidemics of history.
Hatch takes every opportunity to praise his rivals, yielding time to his distinguished colleagues as if they were all in the Senate.
Harriman, Teddy Roosevelt) rivals that of "some unwritten E.L.
Parcells vacations little during the off-season: He can't relax, worrying that his rivals are working harder.