| If The Fashion Industry Doesn't Get Special Copyrights, The Terrorists ...
Having seen the Senate create a special patent exemption for banks, it should come as no surprise that plenty of other industries are looking for special intellectual property treatment as well. Take, for example, the fashion industry. Years back, we noted that the fashion industry was a near perfect example of a creative industry that thrived despite no copyright protection on clothing designs. It showed what a myth it was that creation and innovation would stop in the absence of copyright law. In fact, studies began to show that it was that exact lack of copyright that drove the industry to be so innovative. That was for two reasons. First, designers had to constantly be innovating. An old design is an old design and they couldn't rest on their laurels, but had to keep creating newer and better designs.
Official to quit if Roberts returns
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Oral Roberts University's executive vice president of academic affairs and provost offered his resignation to the board of regents on Thursday if the board decides to keep Richard Roberts as president.
Mark Lewandowski wrote regents Chairman George Pearsons that he "would be pleased to continue to serve" in his job if Roberts resigns or is not reinstated, according to his letter first obtained by The Associated Press.
Roberts has been on a leave of absence as ORU president since Oct. 17 while the board and independent auditors investigate allegations made in a lawsuit that he and his family misused ORU and Oral Roberts Ministries money and resources.
Improve environment, prevent cancer
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McCain: Still Losing GOPs?
Specter's now willing to accept making the Senate's guest worker and legalization programs "contingent on having a secure border," reports the Washington Times. Specter also said "I don't think the Senate will pass a bill that's limited to [enforcement]." No fair issuing sweeping categorical prohibitions! Throw the steering wheel out the window! [You mean that's a suprisingly weak formulation?--ed Yes. He doesn't "think." This is the pre-conference bluster period, remember. House members may think he might think different in a few months!]. ... P.S.: More Specter "It may be down the line that we will come to some terms on a timetable, with border security first and employment verification first." How about this face-saving timetable: Border security, first, employment verification first--and Congress promises that in a few years it will debate a legalization bill? Throw the man a lifeline! ...
Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time
Much was made of Illinois Senator Barack Obama's superb speech to a huge crowd of Iowa Democrats at the mid-November Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines. Without a doubt, it helped to propel Obama ahead of New York Senator Hillary Clinton in polls conducted in the weeks after the event. But Obama's speech in November may not turn out to be the definitional statement of the fight for Iowa. What could turn out to be the most critical comment of the campaign came from John Edwards in the last debate between the Democratic contenders — and the former senator from North Carolina may well claim the caucus-night victory that is the reward for delivering the right message at the right time. It wasn't a great rhetorical flourish. It wasn't even a new statement.
Now, saline water worries flood-hit Malwa farmers
Meanwhile, Badal said he would be taking up the issue of bonus on paddy to farmers with the union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar. He would be demanding a hike on the expected bonus of Rs 40 per quintal and also seek immediate announcement in this regard. Badal also categorically denied that the deputy commissioner and SSP of Amritsar were being shifted at the behest of Bikram Singh Majithia, minister for public relations. Badal said Majithia had clarified that he was wrongly quoted in the media as having demanded the transfer of the DC and the SSP for bad handling of the function to mark the birth centenary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. On the issue of media reports that certain IPS officers had held a meeting to discuss the matter, Badal said as per my knowledge no meeting has been held but he added I can assure all officers that no undue action will be taken and all cases will be dealt on merit and on available evidence. .
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