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...short, the coalition's petition will probably go nowhere. But, says intellectual-property attorney Michael Gollin, it does "go to the higher question of what should we be doing on a societal level to share benefits. Is there a way to create some kind of compensation, not as blackmail or to stop products from being developed, but to promote development of biological resources in a sustainable...
...answer, Gollin and many others believe, is to create an international organization to provide guidance on these issues--probably under the auspices of the biodiversity treaty. If the petition does nothing but encourage some such solution, that may excuse...
...last word at the rally, however, came from Douglas Gollin '84, a diehard Yale fan, "I think these people should all get jobs," he said, unzipping his sweatshirt to reveal a well-worn navy-blue tee-shirt...
...religious orders in America are legendary lodes, but Gollin guesses that they really hold only $150 million in cash and securities. Most of their $8.2 billion in assets is tied up in unprofitable universities and other schools. However, he figures that they can keep solvent if they concentrate on more businesslike use of their skilled, dedicated manpower, and abandon such unprofitable pastimes as raising vegetables and selling fruitcakes...
Mussolini's Millions. Gollin guesses that the wealth of Catholicism round the world totals $70 billion, most of it tied up in real estate. As for the church's headquarters, Gollin's two chapters on Vatican finances depict a much shrewder investment operation than that in the American branch office. In 1929 Mussolini paid the Vatican, which was then virtually broke, $92 million in return for Italy's previous takeover of the Papal States. By 1968, Vatican-employed businessmen, chiefly Bernardino Nogara, a Jewish banker, had parlayed this into a $300 million stake in the Italian...