Word: ownership
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: A government board has handed ownership of the famous Zapruder film showing the Kennedy assassination over to the federal government. Still to be determined is how much money the government must pay the Zapruder family for the 26-second clip that is so badly deteriorated that it can no longer be shown in a projector. While the government hopes the Zapruder heirs will simply donate the original film, a family lawyer said they would instead accept "very, very, very substantially less" than the film's estimated value. The family, which holds the copyright, has made an estimated...
...humanities belong to all the people of the United States." The sentiment is thick here, but the content is unlikely. What is intended by "belong?" Are we to really believe that the all the people of the United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities...
...will not do business in the U.S. Once the drug wins approval, it will be distributed by The Population Council, a New York-based non-profit that received the U.S. patent from Roussel-Uclaf in 1994. According to a Hoechst representative, the pressure applied by the groups made continued ownership of the patents potentially disastrous in an international market place. Last week's threatened boycott by the Washington-based National Right to Life Committee of Hoechst's flagship antihistamine medication, Allegra, may have been the final straw...
...Yard. Occasionally, The Crimson admits otherwise, and covers news from Cambridge, Boston and surrounding areas. The "City and Region" section, which last appeared on Wednesday, is a good example. Often the site of mildly amusing and very lengthy feature stories about the joys of Harvard Square business ownership, the section nevertheless attempts to cover such diverse issues as Boston news analysis and Cambridge city politics...
...citing that 348 out of the 460 acres of land on Har Homa were owned by Jews prior to 1948, Levitin is playing a dangerous game. Does Levitin think that Israel should re-instate the pre-1948 land ownership contracts...