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...approximate measure of the actual growth of school commercialism. However, the increased media attention to activities such as exclusive vendor agreements with soft drink bottlers, the promotion of junk food and hair care products through in-school sampling and the privatization of public schools in deals with for-profit management companies, suggests that the presence of marketers in schools is indeed growing...
...When Rudenstine announced the 20/20/2000 initiative last year, housing advocates hailed the move as an unprecedented commitment to affordable housing, unmatched by any other private, non-profit institution...
...Harvard disbursed its $20 million--split equally between Boston and Cambridge--among three intermediary non-profit organizations, the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust (CAHT), Boston Community Capital and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, who will pass the money on to local community development corporations in the form of low-interest, unrestricted loans...
...enjoyment--i.e., noncommercial use. Congress has even declared, in the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, that it is legal to make recordings and lend them out to people, provided it is not done for commercial purposes. It is unlawful, of course, if it's done to make a profit. "The law does not distinguish between large-scale and small-scale sharing or lending," insists Boies, who puts Napster's chance of winning the suit at fifty-fifty...
...owners of the dance-studio building described in your article on rising real estate prices in San Francisco, "When Dotcoms Move In" [NATION, Aug. 28]. It was inaccurate to imply that our company, Pomegranate Design & Development, is just one more of "those well-funded, profit-challenged dotcoms." We are not a dotcom; we have never rented space to a dotcom, and have no plans to do so in the future. MARCI RISEMAN AND EVAN SAGERMAN San Francisco...