Word: collectivities
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...Food For Thought Britain's National Union of Teachers condemned as derisory so - called cause - related marketing schemes in schools proposed by companies such as Cadbury Schweppes. Under the plans, schools collect tokens - found as part of product packaging - and then exchange the tokens for sports equipment or computers...
...wife and I continued to collect in that area and periodically make gifts to Harvard to try to strengthen the Dutch drawing area in the Fogg collection,” said Mr. Abrams. “We always thought it was rather special to be able to hold wonderful works of art in your hands and be able to look at them intimately. We thought that students doing that would get a pleasure that they can’t normally...
...Iraqi people and for the reconstruction of Iraq." Bush's order made an exception for cases in which the courts had already attached Iraqi assets, which meant that 188 American civilians - including diplomats, engineers and businessmen held as hostages or human shields - and their relatives were able to collect more than $120 million two weeks ago. But Acree and his fellow POWs, along with another 200 former hostages and human shields whose cases are pending in U.S. District Court, may be out of luck. Last month former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson and 20 other high-ranking former diplomats and military...
...student charged with the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old boy, should go ahead despite the fact that police had threatened Gäfgen with torture to force him to reveal the boy's whereabouts. Gäfgen was arrested last year after police saw him collect a 31 million ransom paid by the boy's father. Police said they needed to make the threat in case the victim was still alive, but in danger. Gäfgen then gave police the boy's location, but he was already dead. Judges ruled that Gäfgen's rights...
...avoid his critics. Philip Dodd, director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, said recently the Saatchi Gallery was "dedicated to the recent past" and the Young British Artists (a Saatchi coinage) were "a very '90s story." London art critic Brian Sewell finds it "extremely difficult" to regard the Saatchi collection as art at all. But, he says, Tate Modern can't stand up to the new Saatchi sideshow: "I've always thought Saatchi was doing what Serota should be doing" - showing off works of art that represent the late 20th century. Sewell thought Saatchi intended one day to hand over...