William Patry might not look from the outside like a man with a fire in his belly. A copyright lawyer for 27 years, Patry has written one of two definitive accounts of US copyright law (all 5,500 pages of Patry on Copyright can...
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On Nov. 27, 1701, astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden. In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C. In 1909, author, poet and critic James...
Published: Fri, November 27, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m. Polanski prepares for luxury Alpine house arrest GSTAAD, Switzerland — After two months in a Swiss jail, Roman Polanski prepared Thursday for the splendid captivity of his $1.6...
I do not share the current fascination with acquiring Adrian Gonzalez or Roy Halladay… or for signing free agent Matt Holliday for that matter. For the life of me, I don’t understand the reason most fans, media members and...
US Airways Airbus A350 XWB (Airbus image) US Airways will defer 54 Airbus aircraft deliveries scheduled between 2010 and 2012 until at least 2013 and push back its A350 XWB launch from 2015 to 2017 to boost liquidity, the...