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...action also charged the bank's chief financial officer, James Davis, as well as Laura Pendergest-Holt, chief investment officer of Stanford Financial Group. A temporary restraining order entered by U.S. District Court Judge Reed O'Connor froze Stanford's assets, and a receiver has been appointed to marshal them...
...play have yet been identified. An autopsy scheduled to be performed today is expected to reveal more information about the identity of the indiviudal, including its gender and age, according to NECN.com. This case, like all incidences involving bodies discovered in Boston, will be prosecuted by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, according to the Boston Police Department...
...meantime, some school-district administrators have come up with creative solutions. Superintendent Jerry Vaughn of the Floydada Independent School District in Texas - which has 900 or so students - says he is working toward a partnership with a local wind-power company that would pay for a laptop for every kid in grades 6 through 12. At the fast-growing Forsyth County Schools District in Cumming, Ga., Bailey Mitchell, chief technology and information officer, recently opted to use free open-source software instead of purchasing expensive software licenses from vendors like Microsoft. Mitchell says the decision will save $1.1 million over...
...alleging that Zuckerberg used their code to create his now well-recognized social networking Web site. He had worked for them as an undergraduate. The firms settled the case last April, intending to keep the figure confidential. In June, the Winklevoss brothers and Narendra appealed to a San Jose district judge, stating that they were mislead into accepting stocks worth less than Facebook purported. In a move characteristic of the secrecy surrounding the settlement, Judge James S. Ware asked reporters to leave the courtroom during the proceedings. Ultimately, he rejected ConnectU’s appeals. With the figure...
...House Masters, both Sullivan and Robinson have earned distinctions in a wide range of academic and professional pursuits. Sullivan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College. He has worked in Kenya, documenting human rights violations, and served as the Director for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Though he was a new faculty member at Yale Law School, Sullivan received the award for outstanding teaching in his first year. Currently, he directs the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute. Robinson, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, was named one of Ebony Magazine?...