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...fluid, thanks to a tangled situation that tied up the movie in legal wrangling among various large (MGM, Sony and Viacom) and small entities (B-movie house the Cannon Group) that each laid claim to tiny parts of Spidey. "Spider-Man was plagued by bad deals, litigation and ownership that obviously wasn't capable of pulling off a movie of this magnitude. Thank God, because if they had done a Spider-Man movie in the mid-'80s, it would have been Cheesy-Man," says Arad...
...Staff’s ultimate hope, it appears, is for the enactment of prohibitory gun measures. Yet historical evidence shows that gun control is a totally ineffective means of reducing crime. From 1900-1930, for example, there were relatively few changes in U.S. per capita gun ownership, but our nation’s murder rate increased tenfold. Between 1937 and 1963, however, handgun ownership increased by a whopping 250 percent, while the homicide rate actually fell by 35.7 percent...
GERMANY After the Grief As friends, relatives and sympathizers mourned the deaths of 16 people in a school shooting, authorities sought measures to help prevent similar incidents. Interior Minister Otto Schily proposed raising the legal age for gun ownership from 18 to 21. Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber suggested a ban on violent video and computer games. Youth groups said such proposals were an overreaction and would not have prevented 19-year-old Robert Steinhäuser from carrying out his deadly mission at the Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, which investigators said had been planned for at least six months...
...able to ‘unwind’ the arrangement if, during that ten-year period, the Pi Eta alumni wished to do so.” Additionally, they deny Sigma Chi’s claim that there was any decision that Sigma Chi members would have an ownership interest in the house...
Other aspiring writers might have felt crushed about losing ownership of their own work. Not Keith. He rushed to the bookstore and found on the last page of a book about Mother Teresa a poem called “Anyway,” which comprised eight out of his 10 original “commandments.” The book attributed the poem to a sign on the wall of a children’s home in Calcutta where Mother Teresa spent time. “That was the hook…the credibility,” Keith says...