But eight years after the purchase Searle received a letter from a lawyer representing the heirs of Holocaust victims Friedrich and Louise Gutmann.

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But as a new study conducted by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and distilled in a recent Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder demonstrates, these rules have not kept up with technology.

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These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.

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"Tate Modern was supposed to be an art gallery, but they've got a tourist attraction, " said Mr Searle.

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John Searle has long argued that there is a way out of this dilemma, but some philosophers are not so sure.

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Mr Searle said he mourned the passing of the very local approach to policing, but added that a split was not likely.

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