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...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit April 3 against four students at Michigan Technological University, Princeton University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for alledgedly providing illegal downloads of more than one million songs on file sharing websites...
...this lawsuit is not the way. The NAACP has drawn attention to important issues that must be addressed, but it has helped neither of the causes for which it hopes to advocate with this mix-and-match suit...
...agree with the Staff’s dismissal of the NAACP lawsuit as nothing more than grandstanding. But we are concerned that gun control hinders the ability of those living in America’s inner cities to protect themselves from crime. Greater policing and better hospital response times in urbancommunities are measures that undoubtedly deserve our support. But the larger solution to gun violence is not to reduce the self-defense capabilities of decent, upstanding people. Rather, it is to enforce aggressively our current gun-safety statutes and to allow law-abiding citizens the right to own a potentially...
Summers’ advice regarding developing nations comes as Harvard fights a two-year-old lawsuit in which the government has alleged that the conduct of two University affiliates undermined a federally funded economic reform program in Russia. The parties are waiting on a judge’s decision on whether or not Harvard can be found liable for $102 million in damages without a trial...
...waged a long public relations war in trying to pressure Templeton to increase prices, culminating in a Jan. 16 letter to shareholders urging the “extraordinary action” of voting out Templeton fund manager J. Mark Mobius. Templeton responded with a Jan. 29 lawsuit accusing HMC of making “knowingly and materially false and misleading statements” in the letter. HMC fired back with a countersuit one week later, alleging that Templeton had breached its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders...