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• The Next Generation of Performing Rights, Streamlining of Music Licensing Process to Be Discussed at GW University Symposium, Audio Teleconference Wednesday, June 18, 2008

  - 2008-06-12

  UC Berkeley Professor Robert Merges, BMI VP Richard Conlon, GW University's Robert Brauneis to Lead Conference Call Surrounding Release of IP Rights White Paper BMI:[TABLE OMITTED] BACKGROUND: The George Washington University Law School Intellectual Property Law Program has been a leader in intellectual property education for...

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• John Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has been writing for years and years on the quandaries of the brain-mind-consciousness connections.(While We're At It)(Freedom and Neurobiology)(Brief article)

  - 2008-05-01

  John Searle, professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, has been writing for years and years on the quandaries of the brain-mind-consciousness connections. We have what I expect are basic disagreements, but he is always instructive. His most recent book is Freedom and Neurobiology...

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• Cal's Saudi deal raises rights concerns

  - 2008-03-01

  BERKELEY -- The University of California, Berkeley, is negotiating a secretive deal with a developing graduate university in Saudi Arabia, where Berkeley faculty would collaborate on research and help the school hire professors. But the collaboration has raised significant questions among Berkeley instructors about whether the Saudi...

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• 'Expert' Predictions Often Fall Short, Says Grawemeyer World Order Winner

  - 2007-12-03

  To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: Denise Fitzpatrick of University of Louisville, +1-502- 852-6171, denise.fitzpatrick@louisville.edu LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Political pundits should be held accountable for the predictions they make, says the winner of the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.Philip Tetlock, a University of California,...

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• UC Berkeley gets grant for faculty chairs

  - 2007-09-10

  BERKELEY-- Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, are hoping a $113 million donation from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will help them fend off some pesky poachers -- elite private schools eager to cherry-pick campus talent with juicy offers. The gift, set up to draw...

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• Berkeley professor shot in hand during visit to Nigeria

  - 2007-07-26

  BERKELEY -- A University of California, Berkeley, professor was shot in the hand in Nigeria on Wednesday when gunmen stormed a newspaper office where he was attending an awards ceremony, the university reported. Michael Watts, 56, was at the National Point newspaper in Port Harcourt, in southeast...

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• UC Berkeley reading list full of doom and gloom

  - 2007-06-12

  BERKELEY -- The globe warms; icepacks are melting; terrorists abound; suicide bombers strike. It's indeed a gloomy time on Earth. So how better to prepare the University of California, Berkeley's incoming freshman than a primer on well, bad things? It's time again for the annual UC Berkeley...

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• Bad things are about to come to Cal frosh

  - 2007-06-10

  BERKELEY -- The globe warms: Icepacks are melting. Terrorists abound: Suicide bombers strike. It's indeed a gloomy time on Earth. So how better to prepare the University of California, Berkeley's, incoming freshmen than a primer on well, bad things. It's time again for the annual UC Berkeley...

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• Cal frosh reading list full of gloom, doom

  - 2007-06-10

  BERKELEY -- The globe warms: Icepacks are melting; terrorists abound: suicide bombers strike. It's indeed a gloomy time on Earth. So how better to prepare the University of California, Berkeley's incoming freshman than a primer on well, bad things. It's time again for the annual UC Berkeley...

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• Doom, gloom and survival: Welcome to UC Berkeley

  - 2007-06-06

  BERKELEY - The globe warms. Icepacks are melting. Terrorists abound. Suicide bombers strike. It's indeed a gloomy time on Earth. So how better to prepare the University of California, Berkeley's incoming frosh than a primer on well, bad things. It's time again for the annual UC Berkeley Summer...

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