On Thursday, French military spokesman Col Thierry Burkhard said a column of 1, 400 troops from Chad was heading towards Kidal from the Niger border.

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Speaking of sentiment, last month's technology column generated more hate mail than any column I've done since 1990 and 1991, as our market was bottoming and heading sky-high.

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