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House passes resolution to honor actor Paul Newman

A photograph that filled a billboard in Denver this week will not find its way onto billboards in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

In July of 2010, Paul Ceglia sued the owner and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, saying that he was the rightful owner of 85% of Facebook. His said that he loaned Zuckerberg $1000 so that he could start the company Facebook. The reason that this is going to court is that there is debate over what website the money that Zuckerberg recieved was used to build. During that time, Zuckerberg also built a website about job advertising. Ceglia claims that his money went to both sites, while Zuckerberg says that it only went to the advertising website. This lawsuit shows that copyright laws extend far beyond direct copying of other peoples ideas and property. This is a case that emphasizes how difficult it can be determining the winner in cases like these.

This article brutally addresses the use of the term guido and addresses the political relations to Jersey Shore. They discuss how the government of the area regrets allowing the show to be broadcasted, how companies that initially aired their commercials are having second thoughts about keeping their ads on the air, and how the Italian-Americans that live in the area have an opposition to the show and the use of the term guido.

Even though MTV may have wanted this show to have a positive reaction inside the Italian community, but it had the exact opposite. The show has received a lot of complaints and people disagreeing with how the show portrays young Italian Americans and the show might now be cancelled due to that problem.