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...your smarmy pundits-and the smarmy pundits you have in your pocket-can take your war and shove it.' SEAN PENN, actor, about President George W. Bush, at a March 24 town-hall meeting in Oakland, California
...Treo, mobile phone or PC knows that MobiTV has been making waves. Just after its co-founders conceived the start-up's objective seven years ago--to solve the problem of large-scale, global data transmission on mobile devices--a eucalyptus branch fell outside Phillip Alvelda's Oakland Hills home, where the three sat brainstorming. The tree smashed his hot tub. Alvelda, a physicist, can probably explain the energy wave given off. But he could not necessarily say what triggered him and Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison to agree that day to combine their expertise in technology, marketing and project...
...former outfielder (not the general manager of the Oakland A's--that's Beane) hit the front pages when he came out in '99, and he has been an outspoken gay-rights activist ever since. He runs a real estate business in Miami Beach with his longtime partner. Showtime is developing a film based on Bean's autobiography...
DIED. Tillie Olsen, 94, political, feminist writer and advocate for the working class who gave life to characters seldom before celebrated in fiction: ordinary women struggling to survive amid the demands of jobs and motherhood; in Oakland, Calif. For many years a working mom with little time to write, she produced a small body of hugely influential work. Among her books: the nonfiction Silences, which explored women's obstacles to creativity, and the 1961 collection Tell Me a Riddle, whose title novella detailed an unhappily married couple's road trip and won an O. Henry Award for exceptional short fiction...
DIED. Effie Mae Howard, 70, reluctantly famous, critically acclaimed African-American quiltmaker whose colorful, multitextured, geometric works--designed, she said, after intense private prayer--are now in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Oakland Museum under her pseudonym, Rosie Lee Tompkins; in Richmond, Calif...