Patrick J. Fitzgerald
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Patrick J. Fitzgerald, US Attorney, Northern District of Illinois, heads one of the nation's largest and most important federal-attorney's offices. He has combined a high-minded belief in the laws of the land as society's fundamental ordering principles with a willingness to use any legal means at his disposal to have to have lawbreakers punished.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2006
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Jonathan Abrams, Founder and chairman of Friendster
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Jonathan Abrams, member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley association of startup entrepreneurs, founded the on-line social network Friendster in 2002. He envisioned it as a safer alternative to existing dating sites, one in which members register free of charge and by invitation to meet people through friends rather than total strangers.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2006
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