Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and talked friend Paul Allen into joining him in Albuquerque, New Mexico to start Micro-Soft.

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It would disadvantage small fund-management start-ups that badly need initial help from soft brokers.

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Now, before you start dismissing this as soft-as-tofu logic that just randomly happened to work at Coca-Cola, other experts at this small conference held at the Venetian chimed in in agreement.

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Edwards' response to the attendance issue was to remind people of Cheney's record as a soft-spoken right-wing wack-job in the House: voting against Head Start, voting against Meals on Wheels, voting to legalize plastic guns that terrorists can use to defeat metal detectors, voting against the Martin Luther King Holiday and against a resolution calling on the racists in South Africa to free Nelson Mandela.

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