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...Technically, McDonald's is doing nothing wrong. Since the U.K. rights on the designs of the chairs have expired, this is all perfectly legal. Thanks to U.K. design rights law - which holds that the rights on a design last a maximum of 25 years, instead of 70 as in much of Europe - British furniture stores and websites are legitimately selling copies of the Egg chair, for example, for a fraction of the original's $5,000 price tag. "A commercial decision was taken to use some reproduction similar chairs," Lorraine Homer, spokeswoman for McDonald's in the U.K., tells TIME...
...picture the chief at New Year's--this man who has it made, settled into his comfortable chair in his big house in the wealthy Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md. He's reading, maybe for the 30th or 35th time, this intricate, almost overwhelming poem about how nothing in this world can be counted on to turn out right. What's the meaning of this annual discipline? Perhaps that the conservatism of John Roberts goes much deeper than mere politics. That he favors authority and tradition while distrusting reforms and revolutions because he believes in the ancient notion that...
...aggravated assault—on campus and in the campus vicinity rose slightly from 2005 to 2006. “Our violent crime statistics have remained fairly consistent and our property crime has dramatically decreased over the last several years,” Catalano said. According to Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson, an expert on community crime, Harvard might be a unique case among American colleges when it comes to crime. “Harvard is a major tourist destination and every day, thousands of visitors descend upon campus,” said Sampson. “What that...
Both Nelson and Michael R. Ragalie ’09, chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee, emphasized that the precise details of this agreement have not been finalized...
...Sciences, as the Core Curriculum is jettisoned in favor of a new general education program. Current sophomores will likely be the first class to have the option of fulfilling General Education requirements instead of Core requirements, according to the Gen Ed’s committee’s chair, Jay M. Harris. —Staff writer Carolyn F. Gaebler can be reached at cgaebler@fas.harvard.edu...