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...most naggingly catchy tunes in pop music--and, it turns out, one of the most controversial. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, featured in Disney blockbuster The Lion King, is based on the 1939 song Mbube, written by South African musician Solomon Linda. But Linda, a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song, received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with $25 in his bank account. His family is suing Disney for $1.5 million. Disney says it will fight the suit, but it's already paying off. Though not named in the suit, U.S. music...
...brief noted that the original wording of the Solomon Amendment only barred funding to schools that “prohibit” or “in effect prevent” military recruitment on campus. The professors argued that the law did not require Harvard to actively assist recruitment by giving the Pentagon access to OCS resources...
...professors’ brief argued that the school had been in compliance with the Solomon Amendment even prior to Harvard’s 2002 decision to waive its nondiscrimination policy for military recruiters. Before then, the Harvard Law School Veterans Association organized meetings between students and Pentagon officials, but the school’s Office of Career Services (OCS) played no part in the process...
...Professor of Law Janet Halley, who signed the brief, said at the rally Friday that the pre-2002 arrangement, even if permitted by the Solomon Amendment, was morally unjustifiable. She said Harvard’s practice of accommodating the military through the Veterans Association had reduced the school’s nondiscrimination policy to “transcendental nonsense...
...years ago, a lot of us didn't even know how to get online," says Alice Solomon, 67, founder of GorgeousGrandma.com a support site for aging single women, and author of Find the Love of Your Life After 50. "But these days, among my peers, online dating has become the hottest thing since underwire bras...