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...costs. Most Annen-burglars are not hoarders: They just want to take the occasional item because they know they will be hungry later and do not want to spend extra money buying food outside the dining hall. Annenberg’s prohibition of this kind of “stealing?? is unfair...

Author: By Matthew S. Chuchul | Title: Legalize Annen-burglary | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Such malevolence and contempt is not only unwarranted, it is utterly baseless. The nature of intellectual discovery demands the concentration of society’s brightest minds and best resources. Synergistic cooperation, not fragmentation and isolation, are generative of academic discovery. To assail the Ivies for “stealing?? teachers from their more minimally endowed peers is to imply that these professors are the dominion of public universities. Yet, these professors do not belong to public institutions any more than they do to the Ivies. Rather, they choose to teach at Harvards, Yales, and Princetons because...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: In Defense of the Ivies | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...seems that activists will use any means available to undermine corporate America. “I’m Not Stealing?? was created by two young activists who attempted to fix the effects of commercial materialism on their own, thus incurring the wrath of the monolithic Wal-mart Corporation. Recode.com featured a barcode generator that allowed clients to re-price commercial goods as they saw fit. After the website’s creators were forced to dismantle their project because of legal action, the response film played on the website. The cartoon’s host, a talking...

Author: By Eve Lebwohl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Medium Obscures Message at Lost Film Festival | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...positive question of whether or not downloading music is illegal (or even whether it’s “stealing?? in the semantic sense of the word) is not, I don’t think, the correct question to be asking. Rather we ought to be asking ourselves how the notions and the codification of copyright, originally laid out in the Constitution and subsequently modified dozens of times to include such specific provisions as how many feet of bar space an establishment must have before they pay royalties on the music they play over their loudspeaker, conform...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Stealing the Law | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...don’t eat off of the plate of anyone whom you’ve just met, or who is your friend’s significant other, or who looks to have some sort of viral infection. In all other cases, judge by what you’re stealing??while you should be okay picking vegetables and other healthy things off your roommate’s tray, stay the hell away from the popcorn chicken...

Author: By Amanda L. Rautenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Manners & the (Harvard) Universe | 3/11/2004 | See Source »

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