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...aren't required to police themselves, it does make it clear that if a trademark holder like Fobis discovers an infringement on one of those sites, it can play cybercop itself and demand that the site remove it. Still, companies like Fobis and Tiffany complain that merely having to pluck out the offending material is hardly the same as having to face punitive consequences that might deter it and other retailers from allowing that material on their sites in the first place. And as experts like Edwards note, a firm like Fobis, whose annual Weemote sales peaked at $1 million...
Even the most selective colleges end up using the waitlist to fill out their classes. In 2006, colleges admitted on average 29% of students from the waitlist. For the schools, that's not a bad thing. Rather than assign waitlisters a numeric rank and pluck them from the top in order, most schools reassess the whole pool of kids to try to ensure a well-rounded campus. "It's a great way to shape the class and meet our institutional priorities," says Dick Nesbitt, director of admissions at Williams College. "Maybe we could use a few more artists...
...that is not entirely plausible. And yes, we somehow never doubt that the good people of this tale are somehow going to triumph, even when they lose everything and are immersed in historical darkness. That's because they have the only qualities that count in stories of this kind - pluck, decency and resilient spirits...
...just when I thought I'd passed on every vintage Christmas tele-tale to my progeny, I rediscovered another gem this year. It came to mind because my daughter recently turned 10, and it occurred to me that she shares the big-hearted pluck of another 10-year-old girl who made a lasting impression on my 1972 Christmas, when I myself was 10. Her name was Addie Mills, the heroine of a spare but moving TV drama called The House Without a Christmas Tree - which by happy coincidence was just released on DVD. Yule-o-philes will want...
...This classic is far from the Disney version that’s sweet enough to give you a toothache. The wicked step-sisters’ attempts at deceiving the prince are discovered when blood leaks through the too-small shoe. As punishment for their cruelties to Cinderella, pigeons pluck out their eyes. Which begs the question: Is justice blind or just blinding? 4. The Girl Without Hands – Devils, angels and a little girl whose hands are lopped off by her father populate this story. Her hands are replaced with silver before growing back out of pure piety...