Sentences with phrase «intellectual center of the world»

AD 800-1100), Baghdad was the intellectual center of the world, open to people of all or no faiths.

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For many centuries, Egypt, and al - Azhar University in particular, has been at the intellectual center of the Muslim world.

The great little country of England produced Darwinism in the nineteenth century, and the great Churchill's No to Hitler's 1000 year kingdom in the present century, but notable intellectual creativity was, by the two world wars and the Holocaust, substantially, driven to the American side of the Atlantic.11 Harvard, Johns Hopkins, or the University of Chicago, not Oxford or Cambridge, became the centers.

Critical thinking, intellectual curiosity is what freed people from the tyrants of the old catholic church (i.e. the world is flat, the sun is the center of the universe, gays are evil, condoms are evil).

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

«I think of Stacey - Ann Morris as a quiet earthquake — soft - spoken and unfailingly modest, but at the center of everything that's happened in the TIE cohort this year,» says Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt, director of TIE, citing the comments of Morris» peers that describe her as «thoughtful, intellectual, and patient» and «passionate about empowering children around the world.»

But the intellectual understanding that we so prize at this institution of higher learning would not remove from any of our minds the images of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center or the growing awareness of the enormity of September 11th.

«The intellectual understanding that we so prize at this institution of higher learning would not remove from any of our minds the images of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center or the growing awareness of the enormity of September 11th.»

The center of the US publishing industry and one of the world's largest communities of literary agents and scouts, New York City is also home to a growing number of film production companies — all of whom are always on the lookout to license intellectual property and to purchase film rights.

As an institution of access and excellence, UTSA embraces multicultural traditions, serving as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development for Texas, the nation and the world.

An intellectual who philosophized about, wrote about and talked about art in addition to producing it, Mr. Motherwell became the theorist and leading spokesman of what he called the New York School: the post-World War II movement that put New York at the center of the international art world.

In the mid-twentieth century, as New York became the center of the art world, Chicago artists responded to the same social and intellectual currents, but with a distinctly regional focus.

Ms. Barry has specialized expertise in internet law and has successfully handled domain name portfolio management and recovery of domain names before the World Intellectual Property Organization, the National Arbitration Forum and the ADR.EU Center of the Czech Arbitration Court.

Once the ideal of the Law Library Director was a professor who was a full member of the Law School Faculty, a peer to academic colleagues; the new vision describes an administrator who operates in a world far away from the intellectual center of the School.

Let's start with doctrine: — Current copyright literature Next to Genie Tyburski and the wonderful Virtual Chase — Virtual Chase Legal Research guide: Intellectual Property Law From Slaw's own Ted Tjaden, some Canadian links — Intellectual Property Law — Canada Pausing only to suppress my occasional cynicism about the length of time that Canada's policy - making on copyright has been going on, at least they have good resources explaining the process — Copyright Reform Process A few comparative links: the United Kingdom — Copyright on the UK Patent Office Site Next New Zealand — New Zealand Copyright Law How to do research on Australian copyright law — Intellectual Property Research in Australia Now two important US sites: first the authorized version — The US Copyright Office Next, a wonderful site that reflects some of Larry Lessig «s thinking at Stanford — The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center And finally, reflecting the fact that so much law in this area reflects not domestic policy - making, but hard - fought international consensus, an Index to what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency has accomplished — WIPO Index And to conclude with an American and a European take on international copyright, since I was just in Chicago, look at Irene Berkey's links — International Intellectual Property and finally a European source (actually it's Swiss, but that's not obviousRobert Kraft, in his Diaries, quotes Stravinsky, la justice — c’est une invention suisse)-- Swiss Legal Research Center International IP Links, run by CMS von Erlach Henrici And finally, a nice and quirky piece on the oddities of copyright called — Digital Copyright & Copywrong by Peter Jacso.

Drawing on the full breadth of intellectual resources available across Harvard University's schools and affiliated hospitals, the Center is designed to generate, translate, and apply knowledge in the service of closing the gap between what we know and what we do to support positive life outcomes for children, particularly those who are vulnerable, in the United States and throughout the world