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Patzer, along with his key engineers Matt Snider and Poornima Vijayashanker, built Mint using open-source technology, meaning it was pretty much free. They bartered legal advice for a little bit of ownership in the company. After Patzer's apartment got too small, the company moved into shared office space, renting cube by cube. They had a blog and e-mail campaign instead of advertising - and Patzer did a lot of press. For a young guy, he's very mediagenic: "Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do - solve a real problem...
...Monday, the Obama administration announced plans to provide the more than 600 detainees at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with increased legal rights. Each detainee is to be assigned an American military official who, while not a lawyer, would be responsible for gathering evidence and witnesses on behalf of the detainee and present his case before a military review board...
...provision that has provoked the greatest outcry is a requirement that states drop any legal barriers to linking student test results and teacher performance. After years of dancing around the issue, Washington wants to know which teachers produce the best and worst students and is finally backing up that desire with real money...
...years on, though, the project is already three years behind schedule and $2 billion over the initial $4.2 billion budget, which has led to arbitration and other legal wranglings. Analysts say many of the problems stem from Areva's impossibly low bid. The troubles in Finland probably contributed to German engineering giant Siemens' January decision to pull out of its eight-year partnership with Areva...
...stamp users were eating better than they were - and a number of restrictions on the program, including stricter eligibility rules, were added by Congress during the Reagan Administration and again under President Clinton's welfare-reform bills of the mid-1990s. Some measures, such as those that barred many legal immigrants from the program, were later reversed...