'I found myself at the airport with nothing' A U.S. deportee in 2004, he arrived in Toronto homeless, but determined to rebuild. ANTHONY REINHART tells his story.
29th Dec 2005, 07:32 GMT
There was a buzz, if only a brief one, in the arrivals lounge at Pearson, where a man waited with a sign that read ''Mr. Gates.''The murmurs were understandable; Microsoft was set to host a conference in Toronto that week in July of 2004, and the sign fed rumours that Bill Gates, the company's founder and the world's richest man, was about to appear.
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