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Staying true to that phrase, Julia Kidder and Lauren Brown, senior defensive stars on the Harvard softball team, may just be what the Crimson need to claim an Ivy League title this season...
...would you do if billions of dollars were stolen from you? Understandably upset by spreading music piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has responded to that question by recently launching another campaign to quash the piracy of copyrighted material on college campuses across the country, which they claim has cost billions of dollars of lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them...
...mean, here's a guy with a long record of clear-cut evil, and all the transcript of his confession does is raise questions. Were his claims of responsibility for dozens of attacks mere boasts or the fruits of abuse or torture over years of detention? Why did the Pentagon claim the initial transcript was complete, only to add a section later about the killing of Daniel Pearl? Why was Sheikh Mohammed denied witnesses on the baffling basis that their testimony would be irrelevant? And why did three of the four tribunal members say absolutely nothing during the hearing...
Robertson family members, who hold three seats on the Foundation’s seven-member board, claim that the original donor intended for the money to be used to support the Woodrow Wilson school’s graduate program and help place its graduates in public-sector jobs. They said that Princeton has continually mishandled the Foundation’s endowment and are demanding a $207 million payback...
...Because of the ban on discussion, draft copies of the new law have yet to be released and it remains unclear exactly how much real protection will be given to individual property rights. All land in China is, in any case, owned by the state, and individuals can only claim right to a 70-year lease on buildings - something the new law won't change...