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...that it appears Brandeis is still considering, museum groups aren't the only bodies paying attention. Three years ago, Fisk University, facing a serious budget shortfall, attempted to sell two paintings from a collection donated to the school in 1949 by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A Tennessee chancery court turned down the deal, finding that it violated the terms of O'Keeffe's bequest. When Fisk then negotiated a $30 million deal to share its entire collection with the museum being built in Bentonville, Ark., by the Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, the court refused that...
...Kuwait deal was in trouble? Did it decide to rely on the money which was coming from the Middle East company to complete the Rohm deal? Did anyone ask how the M&A transaction would be financed absent the Kuwait joint venture? Rohm has now fairly taken Dow to court and insisted that the deal be completed. It has pointed out that Dow has access to the capital necessary to close. That capital may be expensive, but the legal and ethical obligations are clear. Dow CEO Andrew Liveris has quickly developed a reputation...
...circuit court in Escambia County, Fla., sentenced 13-year-old Joe Sullivan to a lifetime sentence for rape of a 72-year-old woman, with no possibility of parole. The grounds for Sullivan’s conviction were shaky. First, the trial only lasted one day. Second, the victim could not clearly identify Sullivan as the rapist, and biological evidence was not presented in court—and has since been destroyed. Nevertheless, even if Sullivan committed the crime, he did not deserve the punishment he received. No 13-year old child should ever be sentenced to life imprisonment without...
...called “civilians” were Hamas fighters in plain clothes—without question and without considering Hamas’s admitted use of women and children as human shields, which is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court...
...Insisted that he would not accept the Commerce nomination if New Hampshire Governor John Lynch intended to appoint a Democrat to the Senate seat he would be vacating, a development that-depending on the outcome of the court challenge to Al Franken's apparent U.S. Senate victory in Minnesota-could have given a Democrats the 60-seat majority needed to force legislation through the Senate...