The case hinged on a single e-mail message Mr. Quattrone sent on Dec. 5, 2000, when he pressed "reply to all" and endorsed a message to employees from another executive that had suggested "before you leave for the holidays, you should catch up on file cleaning".
A day after the verdict, Rio Ferdinand appeared to endorse a Twitter message describing Cole as a "choc ice," a slang term perceived as meaning black on the outside and white on the inside.
The question of whether the school board had endorsed a religious message by adopting its intelligent design policy was therefore the central issue in the case, and Judge Jones rightly recognized it as such.
Ford recently became the first automaker to endorse a U.S. ban on text-messaging while driving.
Artists cherish the right to free speech, but businesses seen to endorse an even mildly controversial message can be ruined by customer rage in the age of Twitter.
But while artists from all circles propagate support for the regime or opposition, Anas has endorsed a more constructive message.
As a result of the publicity generated by Microsoft's move and similar efforts by other companies, America Online said it would endorse an open standard for instant messaging.
Now when we talk about social justice, schools or the environment, they don't automatically dismiss it".A Clause IV moment?On November 24th Mr Cameron was due to make a speech expected to endorse the message of a pamphlet published this week by the party's social justice policy group.
If he had done so earlier, the defense argued, Mr. Quattrone would not have sent the e-mail message endorsing a recommendation that his bankers clean out their files.
Mr. Peiken explained during his presentation how Mr. Quattrone endorsed an e-mail message to employees from another executive that suggested "before you leave for the holidays, you should catch up on file cleaning" just days after learning of the investigations.
