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...even after she signed on, there were difficult times. The falling Internet sector dragged the company's stock down to a low of $30 a share. And in May a federal jury ruled that eBay should pay $35 million in damages for infringing on the patent of a Virginia firm that developed fixed-pricing technology; eBay has challenged the jury's decision. But Whitman persevered, and eBay has radically altered the way people everywhere buy and sell stuff, transforming her into one of the most powerful executives on the planet...
...taints the pool in which possible jurors can be found for a trial. She's been made to look like a gold digger and attention getter, and she may not be at all. She may just be a victim of a horrible crime. Only time will tell. Stephanie Crawford Virginia...
...owns the desk on which Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but my thoughts keep wandering back to that recipe. Jefferson bothered to find the recipe from a French acquaintance, to write it down, to keep it in good condition and to give it to his cook back in Virginia. While it may seem a small item, it demonstrates that even in the midst of the history-changing events he was engaged in, Jefferson still maintained his attention to detail, his level of attachment to France and his commitment to preserving what, to him, was the essence of experiencing another...
...same article, we mistakenly said that Rehnquist was the sole dissenter when the court ruled, in Atkins v. Virginia, that states cannot execute the mentally retarded. Two other Justices also dissented...
...which a West Virginia woman tried to sell her son so that she could buy Oxy-Contin, an addictive painkiller...