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While economists celebrated the low unemployment as a sign of a stronger economy, Sue Walsh, the director of Cambridge’s Office of Workforce Development, said that this shift away from blue-collar jobs has hurt workers who are not highly skilled or highly educated...
...community is canvas-shredding mad. "The art galleries bring a lot of people to town. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg," says Linda Miller, who runs a gallery with her husband Jim, a painter, on Ocean Avenue, the city's main drag. Mayor Sue McCloud is unmoved. "We need a more diverse economy," she says...
...carve-up of the company. Yukos is trying to stop the forced sale, which violates Russian statutes stipulating that non-core assets be sold first in the event of tax claims. The firm has launched legal proceedings against the Kremlin under an international energy charter and says it will sue the winner of the Dec. 19 bidding. "This has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with expropriation," argues Robert Amsterdam, a Toronto-based lawyer for Khodorkovsky...
...many aspects, the decision to sue those engaged in illegal file-swapping is hardly a revolutionary step for the film industry. For decades, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has fought piracy in many forms, embracing new technologies and movie formats while addressing the challenges these new developments bring—whether on celluloid, television, cable, satellite, videocassette or DVDs...
People tend to understand and accept the parts of the copyright law that make sense to them. And we tend to behave in ways we think it’s unlikely will get us into trouble. I would argue that as long as finding KaZaA users to sue remains as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, industry executives will probably not turn their efforts towards cracking down on college iTunes users or even Wirehog, unless they feel they can sue Apple or Mark Zuckerberg and get the software itself removed from the market...