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It also helps explain why the Wall Street Journal 's report that most of the 10 start-up companies funded by Doerr's Java Fund are writing their software in languages other than Java stung so much, as did Corel's abandonment of its plan to make its entire Office suite of programs Java-compatible.
Stung by accusations that it has fallen behind in the online competition, Congress' main political rival, the BJP, said that it prefers a chat format for online discourse and will have a site up and running soon.
The WP passes along her claim that when stung by Ken Starr she considered killing herself by jumping out the hotel window, and the tidbit that to keep potential evidence out of investigators' hands, her father burned her White House souvenirs on the family barbecue.
City officials were stunned to think a multimillion-dollar bank might have been stung by million-dollar darts.
A WP business section story claiming that Bill Gates has been deeply stung by the accusations against him and his company opens with an anecdote that's evidently supposed to humanize him but which will probably have the opposite effect.