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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... in the contract and create corresponding duties and obligations, moral, as well as legal. Example: No fetus has a right to sustain its life, maint... ...in the contract and create corresponding duties and obligations, moral, as well as legal. Example: Everyone has a right to sustain his or her life... ... other people's rights ("must"). In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LE... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ivine will, intellectuals to the outstanding achievements of Jewish scientists and scholars, the modern Israeli is proud of his invincible army and... ...alism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human knowledge to... ...rmation, in this case is the professional validity of the diplomas granted and the scholarship (knowledge) that such certificates stand for. But th...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... in the contract and create corresponding duties and obligations, moral, as well as legal. Example: No fetus has a right to sustain its life, maint... ...in the contract and create corresponding duties and obligations, moral, as well as legal. Example: Everyone has a right to sustain his or her life... ... other people's rights ("must"). In some countries, the obligation to save life is legally codified. But while the law of the land may create a LE... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...ivine will, intellectuals to the outstanding achievements of Jewish scientists and scholars, the modern Israeli is proud of his invincible army and... ...alism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human knowledge to... ...rmation, in this case is the professional validity of the diplomas granted and the scholarship (knowledge) that such certificates stand for. But th...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ds and fails miserably when the markets change sign. There is disagreement among scholars and traders whether one should better use historical da... ...s such as Stephen LeRoy and Richard Porter offer support - other, no less weighty, scholarship by the likes of Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, James P... ...e practical value." These hopeful inferences are supported by the work of other scholars, such as Paul Weller of the Finance Department of the u... ... high - are barriers to entry. These are determined by the structure of the market, legal and bureaucratic hurdles, the existence, or lack thereof o... ...Development, quoted in The wall Street Journal. In a paper titled "If Cartels Were Legal, Would Firms Fix Prices", implausibly published by the Ant... ...ard problem that is most acute with our largest banks ... The actual regulatory and legal changes introduced over the period-although positive steps... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... II. E(merging) Books III. Invasion of the Amazons IV. Revolt of the Scholars V. The Kidnapping of Content VI. The Miraculous Conversion ... ...dible Web XIX. Does Free Content Sell? XX. Copyright and Free Online Scholarship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist X... ...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... agents - but such software is likely to conquer other niches (such as the legal and medical professions). It allows users to select bits and pieces ... ...d bibliomania. This innocuous model subversively undermines the concept - legal and moral - of ownership. It also expropriates the book from the rea... ...o spur along innovations in business methods. Revolt of the Scholars By: Sam Vaknin http://www.realsci.com/ Scindex's Instant ... ...sh against digital content piracy and plagiarism has reached preposterous legal, litigious and technological nadirs. Plagiarism.org has develop... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in...

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Eve and David

By: Honoré de Balzac

... francs’ worth of bills to meet; he will not meet them; you will stave off legal proceedings in such a way as to increase the expenses enormously. Don... ...all make apparent manifold atrocities lurking beneath the formidable word “legal.” Master Doublon registered the protest and went himself with it to M... ...aft upon his colleague in Paris. The fifth is a charge for postage and the legal interest due upon the amount for the time that it may happen to be ab... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ... to rule the world, do you not? You must begin by obeying and studying it. Scholars study books; poli- ticians study men, and their interests and the ...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ce. Pres- ently she remarked: ‘But, Mrs. Harrington, he is surely under no legal obligation?’ ‘He is only under the obligation not to cast disrespect ... ...ndsman who has paid the bill, but stands out against excess of interest on legal grounds, the postillion regarded Evan, of whom he was now abreast, ea... ...uples of an inveterate borrower, begged hard to be allowed to bind himself legally to repay the money. ‘’Pon my soul, Harrington, you make me remember... ...ledge I had rea- son to.’ ‘Mais, cela va sans dire.’ ‘Cobblers’ sons ain’t scholars, my lady.’ ‘ And are not all in the habit of throwing their father...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ... suppose would be given for it. Originally, in all countries, I believe, a legal tender of payment could be made only in the coin of that metal which ... ...the standard or measure of value. In England, gold was not considered as a legal tender for a long time after it was 39 Adam Smith coined into money.... ...the gold as he and his debtor could agree upon. Copper is not at present a legal ten- der, except in the change of the smaller silver coins. In this s... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in... ..., or doctor (words anciently synonymous), in the liberal arts, and to have scholars or apprentices (words likewise originally synonymous) to study und... ...ety of pri- 113 Adam Smith vate founders, have established many pensions, scholarships, ex- hibitions, bursaries, etc. for this purpose, which draw m... ...ersities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. In ancient times, before any charities of this kind had be...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...nd the boundaries of one institution. A large group of intellectual property scholars have influenced my ideas. Most impor- tantly, Larry Lessig and Yo... ...e each given far more than they received from me in the “sharing economy” of scholarship. If the ideas I de- scribe here have a future, it is because ... ...he Digital Millennium Copyright Act gives content providers a whole array of legally protected digital fences to en- close their work. 6 In some cases... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...uce you to intellectual property, to ex- plain why it matters, why it is the legal form of the information age. The second goal is to persuade you tha... ... very moment in history when we need them most. Academic articles and clever legal briefs cannot solve this problem alone. Instead, I argue that preci... ...rite about complicated issues, some of which have been neglected by academic scholarship, while others have been catalogued in detail. I want to advan... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr...

...sic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today's policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception. Appropriately given its theme, the book will be sold commercially but also made available online for free ...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... Foundation Hawaiian Electric Industries Hawaiian Electric Company and American Savings Bank Palapalai Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. First Hawaiian Ba... ...r Cable University of Hawai‘i System Hāpu‘u Kupukupu aio Ala Moana Center American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Ha... ...nd its engineering, design and system integration oferings. Investing in American solar projects is a smart move for Asian capital, says Schreck, ... ... posts around the world, joined the International Postal Union, and sent scholarship students to the United States, China and Japan. BEGUN IN 1901... ...ESS CARLSMITH BALL LLP Carlsmith Ball LLP is proud to serve as volunteer legal counsel to the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee Chambers and Partne... ... 6984. EAST-WEST CENTER: For 50 years, government and business leaders, scholars, journalists and students from APEC member economies and other p...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...r Bin Ladin, Zawahiri, nor the three others who signed this statement were scholars of Islamic law. Claiming that America had declared war against God... ...6 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with W estern history and ... ...dividuals were just the first symptoms. 8 Third, the successful use of the legal system to address the first World Trade Center bombing had the side e... ...deposit. 3.2 ADAPTATION—AND NONADAPTATION—IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY Legal processes were the primary method for responding to these early mani-... ...nce within the United States from the CIA and from Army Intel- ligence.The legal basis for some of this assistance was dubious. Decades of encourageme... ...the establishment of a Research and Analysis Branch.There large numbers of scholars from U.S. universities pored over accounts from spies, com- munica...

...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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Modeste Mignon

By: Honoré de Balzac

... is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars. De Balzac. 4 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER I THE CHALET AT THE BEGINNIN... ...tudes. Some houses standing at the summit have a finer position or possess legal rights of view which compel their opposite neigh- bors to keep their ... ...iant hedge. On the other side of the road the opposite house, subject to a legal privilege, has a similar hedge and paling, so as to leave an unobstru... ...al; to him therefore he offered the little dwelling. Dumay, a stickler for legal methods, insisted on signing a lease for three hundred francs for twe... ...d Dumay to his wife, mak- ing her sit close by him. Madame Dumay, a little American about thirty-six years of age, wiped her eyes furtively; she adore... ... richest com- mercial house in Havre. Madame Dumay, a rather pretty little American, had the misfortune to lose all her children at their birth; and h... ...d Dumay, “and you shall be a notary and the successor of Latournelle.” The American wife took the hand of the poor hunchback and pressed it. “What! yo...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...man stepped forward for a few paces, followed by the two friends and their legal adviser. He stopped at a door. ‘Is this the room?’ murmured the littl... ...shed in twice the period of his whole life. ‘“I wish you to undertake some legal business for me,” said the stranger. ‘The attorney bowed obsequiously... ...nt and irritation, for there had been a rebellion in the town; all the day scholars at the largest day school had conspired to break the windows of an... ...elings, ma’am.’ Here Mr. Nupkins looked benignant. ‘ And then tell me what legal business brings you here, ma’am.’ Here the magistrate triumphed over ... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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Beechcroft at Rockstone

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...or it appeared that an omnibus came round on such occasions to pick up the scholars; and Valetta thought this so delight- ful that she danced about ex... ...was getting on beautifully at Leeds, and we thought he would have gained a scholarship and gone on to be a clergyman. That was what his mind has alway... ...terested in the Whites, and was inquiring right and left about schools and scholarships for the little boys. She asked their master about them, and he... ... Caesar always hiding away his nominatives out of spite. Valetta, like the American child, evidently regarded the Great Julius in no other light than ... ...uses to a Mr. Gudgeon, letting to him their own till the completion of the legal business necessary, and therefore desiring his brothers and sisters t...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...is destined to ornament. He outdoes all the dandies, all the wits, all the scholars, and all the voluptuaries of the age—an indefinite period of time ... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...nes. His desk at Mr. Bluebag’s was filled full of prospectisises, and that legal gent wrote to Fred’s uncle, to say he feared he was neglectin his bis...

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