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Daly also sees a proprietary arrogance in Disney's chairman. "Michael Eisner never tried to warn us off, but obviously he tried to make our life miserable," Daly says. "He thinks animation is Disney's birthright and that nobody has the right to be in animation but them...
...Birthright? Well, yes. For 60 years, since its release of the cinema's first cartoon feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney has been the brand name for animation. Its chief rivals in the '40s and '50s, Warner Bros. and MGM, which were besting Disney in the quality and appeal of their animated shorts, never produced a feature-length cartoon. Only in the mid-'80s, when the studio taken over by Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had yet to hint at a renaissance, did Disney lose its animation pre-eminence. An American Tail, produced in 1986 by Steven Spielberg...
Contrary to cult thinking, outsize returns year in and year out are not a birthright wholly detached from the possibility of getting wiped out. Only curmudgeons like Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who last week sent up his third warning flag in 12 months, and gray-haired money managers who lived through the tough '70s markets speak of such things. Everyone else goes on merrily leveraging his or her financial future to an institution that has demonstrated through history a penchant for stomping on anyone who dares to take it for granted...
...games, Athens was criticized for campaigning exclusively on its birthright-the first modern Olympics were held in Athens...
...host the centennial Games in ?96. Since then the city has made extensive investment in its transport system and infrastructure, whose deficiencies allowed Atlanta to ?steal? the centennial Olympiad. ?Athenians are particularly proud this time, because they feel they?ve been awarded the Games not on the basis of birthright, but on the basis of merit.? The city beat out ancient rival Rome on the final ballot, after Buenos Aires, Stockholm and Cape Town were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting...