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"You can punch him; you can explode his head; you can decapitate
him; you can even put a pie in his eye." This video-clip
narration, accompanied by some rather childish animated screen
shots of what some people think of Bill Gates, set the tone for
Jeremy Paxman's interview on BBC2 television last night. The
only critical remark in the video was that Gates was "A
difficult little sod whose parents ended up sending him to a
child psychologist because they thought he was underachieving."
The interview continued in the same vein, and it soon became
clear that there was another under-achiever doing the
interviewing. The ace interviewer was ill-prepared, and a
confident Bill Gates had been well-rehearsed by his travelling
PR team. The interview was recorded on Wednesday before a
specially-screened audience. There were silly questions about
Gates' wealth: "Was it worth his time to bend