Word: accession
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Moreover, while athletes and coaches have had access to him, his policies have not always been transparent to the greater student body. Cleary declined to be interviewed for this story, as has been his policy over the past several years towards The Harvard Crimson...
...students should understand that Harvard's decision reflects only the University's traditional reluctance to ban students' access to any book, music, art, or other source of knowledge. It is not meant as an assurance to students that downloading music via Napster is beneficial, harmless, or legal...
Students should also be aware that a 1998 federal law could require Harvard to terminate the network access of students or other users who repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others, including musicians and record companies. The recording industry has sued Napster, alleging that those who use it are doing just that. There is as yet no final judgment in that case, but another federal court has ruled that MP3.com has violated federal law by enabling users to download copyrighted music. No one should be surprised if the recording industry persuades a court that Napster is liable under the same standard...
...legal restriction on a student's access to the Harvard network would be a serious problem. Harvard cannot insulate its students from the consequences of copyright infringement, and students should understand that they proceed at their own risk when they download copyrighted music...
...cases had been together from the beginning. They shared not only the essential issues but most of the Bush legal team, and the basic facts in both were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms in a printing error - and save the applications from the trash...