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...virtually unregulated waters around Batam, he says. Within hours, the cargo of diesel oil was unloaded and the 1,249-ton tanker repainted, renamed and on its way to a broker. Sometimes, Nurdin continues, his clients want only the "skin," which means just the vessel, of a certain size, length and capacity, while at other times it's only the "guts"?the cargo. "When the big boss only wants the skin, we'll try to find a vessel with no cargo, but if he wants just the guts, we'll find another buyer for the ship." Nurdin regards the raiders...
...matter which side you latched on to you’d be convinced the creative apocalypse was near. Academic legal scholars such as the fellows at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society are quick to caution that with extensions of the length of copyright and with legislative grants of additional powers that undermine the already weak fair use doctrine, the ability to use the existing pool of creative work to new ends—to publish documentaries that include stock footage and write songs that include samples of other songs, for example?...
...pleasure of this DVD set is watching Seinfeld and David add distinctive elements episode by seminal episode. (The abbreviated Seasons 1 and 2 are on one volume, and the full-length Season 3 on a second; $49.95 each. A $119.95 gift set comes with a script, Monk's Diner salt-and-pepper shakers and playing cards.) In the episode "The Baby Shower," the two weave separate story lines for each character. In "The Chinese Restaurant" they explore the possibilities of doing nothing, as the ensemble spends 22 minutes waiting for a table. Meanwhile, Jason Alexander finds George's note...
...leniency; those who disobey receive demerits and lose privileges. About 20% of the students are on behavior-related medications, prescribed by a visiting psychiatrist. Licensed therapists are available, at a fee beyond the hefty $3,085 a month it costs to keep a kid at Spring Creek. The average length of stay is a year, though the Pullans say it takes 18 months to complete the program. Every month, one or two kids try to run away. Although there are no fences, the school is surrounded by mountainous woods, and the nearest major road is 15 miles away, so they...
...Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; a suicide; near Los Gatos, Calif. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth book on U.S. soldiers imprisoned by the Japanese...