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Linden is also dealing with other disgruntled users. After it booted Marc Bragg over questionable virtual real-estate deals, the Pennsylvania resident sued the company last year for confiscating property worth thousands of dollars. While Linden won't discuss the merits of pending litigation, it's clear that Second Life's virtual assets have actual value. Linden lets users retain the rights to digital imagery they create on-site, and the result is a thriving economy that's as real as it gets. Attorney Stevan Lieberman made $20,000 last year helping Second Lifers file patents, trademarks and copyrights...
...movies--this is not sexist, it's just business--about superheroes, things blowing up and terrifying ordeals at the hands of ghastly psychos. (To be fair, research shows young women also enjoy the last.) Then the guys--or girls--can attain some social status from being able to discuss the cool scenes. Nobody goes to work or class the next day and says, "You gotta go see that awesome broken heart...
...conferred repeatedly with his triumvirate of lawyers sitting next to and behind him. He told the committee even less than Taylor, who as a former employee of the White House had an iota of more freedom to answer frankly. (Taylor went so far as to confirm she did not discuss the firings with Bush and to state she believed he had no direct involvement in them - questions Jennings refused to answer...
...Israeli officials are intrigued by the Saudis' overture, but they offered no promises in return - and have made no secret of their reluctance to discuss the most contentious issues at this stage. That doesn't bode well for Bush's summit. Privately, one minister's aide described Rice's trip as "about as useful as grinding dust," but he said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government had to go through the motions of complying with Washington. Politically, Olmert is too weak to be starting closing down the West Bank settlements that house around 250,000 Israelis. Also, Israelis doubt...
...want to fix what's wrong in Congress, you have to make the earmarking process completely transparent. We had a great strong bill in January and they gutted it." That bill, which passed the Senate almost unanimously, had stalled after Sen. DeMint blocked a conference committee from meeting to discuss and reconcile the bill's House and Senate versions because of his concerns that the earmarking provisions would be watered down...