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The US Refused Europe's Proposed IMF Chief in 2000
Choice of IMF chief divides U.S., Europe USA Today 03/01/00- Updated 03:28 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/nc1.htm#duel WASHINGTON - The split betwe…
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Should the World Bank Give Out Money or Should It Lend Money?
The Bush Administration seeks to camoflauge its assault on the World Bank with the claim that the WB errs by lending money rather than handing it out. This mak…
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Time for World to Reject American Domination of World Bank
The Bush Administration has humbled America further, falling further from its once proud status as the admired and unrivaled leader of the free world at the tur…
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I've been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship for 2005-06 at the London School of Economics. This will give me time to work on my project COPYRI…
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Orphan Works
I am starting to post some of my thoughts on individual questions at http://academiccopyright.typepad.com. I am trying to get all six questions done today, bu…
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Ghastly Reminder: We Killed People in Our Custody
According to the NY Times, "At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what Army and Navy investigators have…
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Free the Harvard 119
Harvard Business School has summarily rejected applicants who had taken an early peek at the School's decision on their candidacy. Some clever person with…
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First Scandal, Then the Cover-Up
Halliburton billed more than a $100 million in excess for fuel imported into Iraq (by the way, how galling must this be for Iraqis, who hold the second largest…
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Peter Wayner
Monday March 14, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 271 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served Many of the stores and websites defend their huge collections of personal i…
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Teaching Your iPod to Dance
The problem with the iPod is not only Apple's claim to having a monopoly on legitimate sources of purchased downloaded music (that is, Apple's claim tha…
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What if your Sony could read you Haiku?
A comment on my blog notes that iRiver music players do not have proprietary loading technologies. That comments prompts further reflection: Why do Sony and A…
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Germanys E-Health Card to become Online ID Solution
Germanys Cabinet has announced its new 'eCard' (PDF German) strategy that essentially will render the 'GesundheitsCard' (HealthCard) into a univ…