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...record labels have complained for years about the damage that CD pirates do to their business in China. By some estimates, more than 90% of the CDs sold on the mainland are illegal copies. Intellec-tual-property theft is just part of a global music-piracy problem that combined with rampant tune trafficking over the Internet is cramping sales. After a drop in 2001 of 5% in terms of value and 6.5% in units, global music sales plunged a further 9.2% and 11.2% respectively in the first half...
...philosopher at all. A courtly old man who puttered about his 650-acre hilltop farm near New Hamp shire's White Mountains, carrying bird seed in his pockets, Hocking customari ly listed his occupation on income tax forms as "writer-farmer." Unfashionably, he dealt with the grand intellec tual themes that have traditionally pre occupied those who love wisdom: God, the nature of man, the meaning of life. Indeed, when he died last week at 92, in the rude stone house he had built largely with his own hands, one learned American philosopher said, not unkind ly, that Hocking...
...Tribune reporter from 1948 to 1961, Rowan has written four books, including an analysis of the South's racial conflicts and a biography of Jackie Robinson. When he was rejected by the Cosmos, Rowan made no claim that race was the reason. Said he: "If it is the intellec tual judgment of the membership committee that I do not merit membership, I can do no more than note this judgment and wish the club well...
This story was particularized, emphasized, dramatized, sentimentalized, moralized and painstakingly advertised for eight days by newspapers good, bad and indifferent. Chapman's picture appeared time and again: "Picking his jury. . . . Answering prosecutor. . . . Talking with counsel. . . . Eating lunch." And the "color" paragraphists described him: "Master criminal mind. . . . Intellec- tual desperado. . . . Misguided genius. . . . Stoic sinner. . . . Finely modeled head of a thinker.* . . . Artistic hands...
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