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...that has dogged his multi-billion dolllar social networking site since its inception in a Kirkland House dorm room, according to the New York Times. The Times reported yesterday that Facebook and ConnectU—a similar site launched by three Harvard graduates who allege that Zuckerberg stole the concept after working for them—will soon settle their competing law suits. Neither Facebook, ConnectU, nor Facebook’s attorneys returned requests for comment yesterday. A lawyer representing ConnectU declined to comment. According to the Times, “a person briefed on the status of the dueling...
...addition, many patients still have qualms about such procedures. "Speaking with my wife," says Talamani, "the concept of operating through the vagina, was, well, quite foreign to her. That would be a kind way to put it." Dr. Marc Bessler, director of laparoscopic surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who is conducting a study on transvaginal gallbladder removal, says knee-jerk discomfort with the idea may be keeping patients away. "I was hoping after doing the first few that patients would come looking for this," he says, but they have been slow to arrive. Bessler has thus far removed three...
...welcome basket with fruit or even wine, the daily supply of mega-hundred-thread-count linens and, of course, the services of the concierge--the in-house fixer who's adept at getting seats to sold-out shows and tables at totally booked restaurants. But now the concierge concept is being extended to a broader range of specialized services, and stays are getting even sweeter...
...boyfriend in after-hours for a night of G-rated megastore fun. The video is a mash-up of scenes from the couple’s crazy night in various departments and shots of DeGraw and company singing and performing beneath a garish chandalier while constantly smiling. The intended concept of the video, in my best judgment, is “Gavin DeGraw is doing a girl. Gavin DeGraw is going rock ‘n’ roll.” The video climaxes a little over a minute in, when the sultry Cavallari grabs a video camera...
...Bhutan you can sense it at every political meeting and on every door-knocking drive. In the run-up to the country's first-ever general election on March 24, voters and politicians had to figure out how democracy works and, more important, how to import the concept without hurting their traditions. A few weeks ago, in Khuruthang, a town in the verdant Punakha Valley, workers from the People's Democratic Party--the older (at just over a year) of Bhutan's two main parties--pitched a tent in the courtyard of the town's temple. Buddhism is central...