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Being a camp counselor puts one in a curious position, particularly with a group of middle schoolers. They very quickly identify and exploit every minor fault and weakness you have. You are under pressure 24 hours a day to be a friend and a confidante while simultaneously filling in as a surrogate parent. Each day you find yourself carefully navigating along the very delicate line between being the authority figure and being the buddy...
...technology has blossomed, it has expanded the ways to exploit intellectual property and added greater value," says Joseph Beard, a professor at St. John's University School of Law. Yet as the new rights become more valuable, such old-media distributors of content as publishers and photo agencies are discovering a new willingness by courts to leave them out in the cold...
Because technology cycles are quickening, distributors cannot count on having more than a few years to exploit their existing rights in a work. As a result, businesses must price their merchandise to make as much money as possible up front. "This is a huge problem and will continue to be a huge problem," says Lanning Bryer, a lawyer at the New York City firm Ladas & Perry, which specializes in intellectual-property cases. "The game is to keep everyone else off the golden apple for as long as possible." Or, as in the Pooh case, to keep them off the golden...
...rally the Arab street. Mounting anger over violence in the West Bank and Gaza has created a domestic political crisis for Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, because of their governments' alliances with Israel's key sponsor, the U.S. That's a domestic crisis al-Qaeda will be looking to exploit in its efforts to find the men and money to grow its networks...
...consolation for Republicans is that the Democrats have not yet found a way to use this rising public anxiety to their advantage. Democratic efforts to exploit the Enron scandal failed to resonate with voters. Nor have they found a way to sell the return of the deficit as an election issue: while many Democrats have been critical of President Bush's tax cut, few have been brave enough to call for scaling it back...