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...noted that if the White House were won by "another, France will be a friend to the United States" - a conciliatory move to McCain, his best friend from March. Yet Sarkozy's praise of Obama throughout the press conference made his admiration of the probable Democratic candidate more than obvious - including an apparent allusion to the older McCain. "We have the right to be interested in a candidate who is looking to the future, not backwards at the past," Sarkozy said of Obama's campaign...
...Fortune's Brainstorm Conference earlier this week, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the privately held company isn't feeling any pressure from its investors to produce profits yet, but she pointed out the obvious: that Facebook's real potential was in the "unusual and extraordinary opportunity" afforded by advertising. What she's talking about is inserting brand advertising into the shared experiences of Facebook's users. And the only kind of movement that is, is the movement of money...
...general manager said he also believed that Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, the developers of Scrabulous, would comply and pull their knockoff version from the Web. Blecher said Scrabulous is in obvious copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is enforceable in the U.S. and Canada, and that Hasbro has also sued for damages, attorney fees and profits from Scrabulous. Despite earlier stories suggesting that Hasbro was negotiating with the Agarwallas and that talks stalled when the brothers asked for too much money for Scrabulous, Blecher said Hasbro has consistently declined to negotiate. "Hasbro never contacted the folks...
RAINN WILSON stands in as CNN weatherman, fails to make obvious name...
Hamdan was not an obvious choice for this historic role. He didn't appear to be a high-ranking officer of al-Qaeda, nor was he known to have participated in any specific terrorist operations. But from America's perspective, he did have certain things going for him. Because the military-tribunal system was brand-new, the government thought it made sense to try some lower-ranking operatives first, in case anything went wrong. Hamdan had also been in U.S. custody since his capture and had not been rendered to any foreign countries for interrogation, which might open the door...