Word: calling
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...certainly provokes a multitude of questions regarding authorship and ownership in art. Do you own an image you produce or is it independent of you? Can someone else reproduce your image and then call it their own because they produced their copy? How can that image then be used? Is a multiplicity of identical images less valuable than a single one? All of these questions which society is deliberating now were equally significant at the turn of the century with the invention of photography, and even before that, four centuries ago, in the time of Marcantonio and Durer...
...during a stop at Lamont last week, Hung wasquick to call the typewriter's product"unacceptable" pointing to her stack of manilaenvelopes sporting wavy, smudged addresses...
...spite of my own background, but because of it. Cultural isolation is often defended with the cliche that there is "safety in numbers." Perhaps the Boston Jewish Film Festival demonstrated that those numbers need not be limited to a certain ethnic group, and as we being to call ourselves members of a plurality of cultures, perhaps we may finally become comfortable with our place in the salad bowl and our understanding of the other ingredients...
...criminals are deprived of the right to make them. But as a punishment, disenfranchisement is both ineffective and gratuitously cruel. Unlike jail time, it does not prevent the offender from committing additional crimes, nor does it have much deterrent effect. Permanent disenfranchisement does not even serve the Old Testament call for an-eye-for-an-eye retribution; a system in which the murderer suffers the same penalty as the shoplifter cannot be just. If used at all, disenfranchisement should at least be restricted to time spent in prison, so that ex-offenders would be restored to full citizenship once their...
WASHINGTON: As if the grueling 12-hour session with Ken Starr weren't punishment enough, House Judiciary Committee members had to stay behind after class Thursday night while the two sides bitterly debated over whether to call new witnesses to the impeachment inquiry. Offering no explanation, the GOP majority railroaded four new subpoenas -? for Kathleen Willey's attorney, Daniel Gecker; Democratic donor Nathan Landow; Clinton attorney Bob Bennett and White House lawyer Bruce Lindsey. "What's interesting," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney, "is that we still don't know what the Republicans have in mind by deposing them...