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...greatest buying opportunity comes on Dec. 18, when Sotheby's auctions off what it calls "the birth certificate of freedom": the Magna Carta (above), one of 17originals that still exist and the only one in private hands. Signed by England's King John at Runnymede in 1215 to appease his rebellious barons, the charter was revised over the years until the 1297 version became the foundation of English liberties. When Texas billionaire Ross Perot managed to buy one privately in 1984 for $1.5 million, he lent it to the National Archives so it could lie beside its democratic descendants...
...writ of habeas corpus has been a part of Western law since the Magna Carta. The Bush Administration’s disregard for the most fundamental of rights is inexcusable. If we don’t fight for habeas corpus, who will?,” Novey said...
...Nestor Kirchner and President-elect Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner intend to alternate in the Casa Rosada (the Pink House, or presidential palace) well into the next decade if not beyond. And in Colombia, supporters of conservative President and staunch U.S. ally Alvaro Uribe are clamoring to change their magna carta to give him a third term (which he has yet to say he'd reject) if not more. (This week's feud between Chavez and Uribe is a disheartening preview of democratators at each other's throats...
...scientific" motivation for his unprecedented push to resolve these standoffs directly with the musuems. "The issue is also one of context. If you have a stolen masterpiece, you don't know its history. You don't know where it comes from, if it's from Sicily or Apulia or Magna Grecia," he said. "They are doomed to be anonymous." With that in mind, Rutelli also plays good cop in the negotiations. "To the museum that returns stolen works, we loan for several years works that are equally important and valuable. Therefore, those spaces don't go empty," he said. Indeed...
...Class of 2007 graduates, 73 students will receive summa cum laude diplomas, 50 will graduate magna cum laude with highest honors, 222 will graduate magna cum laude in field of concentration, 60 will graduate cum laude in general studies, and 507 will graduate cum laude in their field of concentration...