Word: forded
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...South Africa. The corollary of this view holds that, as Irving Howe put it, Israel's isolation in the world community is the result of anti-Semitism and the "skillful manipulation of oil" by Arab nations. (4) A similar view is advanced by the authors of the Ford Foundation's excellent study, South Africa: Time Running...
Although the Economist, like other sources, stresses that "Israel entered into this expansive partnership on the strength of a nod from the ford administration," it would be a serious mistake to ignore the older links between Israel and South Africa. A 1957 Commentary article. "The Jews of South Africa," estimated that 120,000 Jews, mostly from Lithuania, made up about 4 percent of all white South Africans. The article also called South African Jews "the wealthiest Jewish community in the world per capita, and one playing a part in the life of South Africa, and in the Zionist movement, quite...
Lowell Master William H. Bossert '59 says the House can invite a large number of distinguished visitors because of a $4000 grant it receives from the Ford Foundation each year to promote "educational faculty student interaction...
Kaufman noted that Editor Victor Navasky of the Nation had paraphrased most of what Ford wrote. Only 300 words of the 2,250-word article were taken verbatim from the manuscript. This brief borrowing of copyrighted material without the author's consent, said the court, was "fair use," a concept that allows limited quotation by journalists, critics, teachers and researchers. Dissenting Judge Thomas Meskill found a problem in the straightforward nature of the paraphrasing, however. "Copyright laws protect originality," he wrote. "They thus offer protection against a work that is substantially an unoriginal appropriation of the copyrighted work...
...case is that "the underlying material is factual." Paraphrasing of fictional material would still violate copyright laws. Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt also did not quarrel with the decision but added, "The appropriate principles of copyright protection got bent out of shape by the tremendous newsworthiness of the Ford disclosures...