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Disney settled lawsuits with the Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella actresses. But it won several cases against orchestras and music publishers who tried to block the use of such compositions as Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in videos of Fantasia without additional compensation. The different decisions hinged on specific contract language, but also mark a tendency of some courts to safeguard the rights of individual creators more zealously than those asserted by sophisticated entertainment companies...
...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July, Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day in 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with overtones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear. In the tug of war for the nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope... Some, mostly the defiant young, blow...
...federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pa., indicted three former Rite Aid executives on fraud charges...
...price because of the need to monitor for performance-enhancing steroids. Even after the court upheld drug testing of student athletes, only a fraction of school districts followed through. Many holdouts cite budget constraints; others cite privacy issues. A.C.L.U. attorney Graham Boyd warns, "If drug testing now becomes a rite of passage...the door will be cracked open wider to government demands for DNA, medical records, financial information and other personal data...
This summer he will be going to northern Pakistan on a Stride Rite fellowship, where he will be working in “medical informatics,” doing disease mapping and technology work—using the Internet to allow rural doctors to stay in contact with big-city hospitals...