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Egged Fires Arab Bus Driver Over Racist Comment. February 18, 2009 Egged has fired an Arab bus driver after he told a member of the Ethiopian community "drink milk and you can be white like me". .

Excerpt - Speaking at the Hungarian University of Economy today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer got egg on his face and not in the figurative sense. Hungary's government spends millions on licenses to use Microsoft software at its universities and this market lockdown is apparently so upsetting to some Hungarians — how will they ever learn to use Linux? — that during today's speech, one attendee stood-up, yelled at Ballmer: "Give back the money of the taxpayers!" and then started chucking eggs. We disapprove, but only because we know Ballmer prefers bananas. A nice banana-cream pie-ing would have made a European...

Oct. 3, 2003 ZAKA to display bombed Egged bus at NY fair By ASSOCIATED PRESS A bus destroyed in one of the deadliest Palestinian suicide bombings will be displayed at a New York fair alongside booths promoting Jewish culture and tourism to Israel. Relatives of the bombing's victims are outraged, and government officials have quietly questioned the wisdom of the plans by ZAKA Rescue and Recovery, an Israeli disaster response group. The idea is bring home the horror of the terror attacks that have plagued Israel, as well as to raise funds for ZAKA, a group of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jewish...

Feb. 3, 2003 Court: Arafat owes the Egged bus company NIS 52 million in damages By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFFTel-Aviv district court has charged the Palestinian Authority and its Chiarman, Yasser Arafat, to pay a sum of NIS 52 million in damages and loss of revenue to the Egged bus company as a result of Palestinian terror attacks. The District court places direct responsibility for terror attacks on the PA and on Arafat. Egged's lawsuit cites damages and loss of revenue incurred in terrorist attacks in the first year of the Intifada only.