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Narendra and the Winklevoss brothers filed suit on September 2, 2004 in U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, charging that Zuckerberg used their source code, their business model, and their original ideas to build a competing site. The cases of both sides hinge on a yet-to-be-released analysis of the similarities between the original codes of the Connect-U site and TheFacebook...
...number of local, political, and judicial figures attended the speech, including Cambridge City Council member Kenneth E. Reeves and Joyce L. Alexander, a federal court judge in the District of Massachusetts and the first African American woman in history to become a U.S. Magistrate Judge...
...Democrats aren't Arnold's only problem. Frustrated by a strong Democratic state legislature that has stopped many of his initiatives, Schwarzenegger has proposed a plan to redraw California's district lines, many of which were created explicitly to protect incumbent legislators in both Sacramento and Washington. The goal would be to create not only geographically-accurate districts, but also ones who would elect more moderate (and perhaps Republican) members to the State Assembly. But in Congress, Republican members are openly worrying about the implications of Schwarzenegger's plan, because redrawing lines could put them in danger of losing seats...
...Europe, according to Susan Shaheen, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. The idea spread to the U.S. in 1998, with the opening of a small company in Portland, Ore. Since then, the movement has grown to 14 firms with 62,000 members in 14 states and the District of Columbia. The firms range from ambitious outfits like Zipcar and Flexcar, which are each adding as many as 1,000 members a month, to modest start-ups like the Dancing Rabbit Vehicle Co-operative in Rutledge, Mo., and Roaring Fork Vehicles in Aspen, Colo. Zipcar and Flexcar, zealous rivals...
Carolyn saw news of the attack on television at the school district's bus depot, where she is a dispatcher. "When I saw the attack on the convoy on TV at work, I knew it was Matt's," she says. On Easter Sunday, an Army major hand-delivered letters to Maupin's parents informing them that Matt was missing. The next day, the Army stormed Carolyn's home, where Matt had lived before shipping out. "There must have been 20 of them," Keith says. "There was a stress officer, a chaplain, a casualty-assistance officer." Neighbors plied the Maupins with...