Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: 15 Early Tejano Classics (Arhoolie) In addition to the music critics' 2001 top-ten lists enclosed, RRE's Amman correspondent stopped by his local record store to find out what cool young Arabs are listening to, most of it Arab pop ballads: 'Amrodiab Mustafa Qamar Nawal Al-Zu'bi Najwa Karam Fadhl Shaker Kadhim Al-Saher Ragheb Allama And Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid sent his "Discs in Serious Rotation" for December/January: 1. Dj Spooky featuring Killa Priest "Catechism" 12" Blue Juice recordings/Wu Tang Records/Priority 2. (Compilation) The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop, Liason Records 3. Charley Patton: Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues (Box Set), Revenant Records 4. The Coup, "Party Music" 75 Ark records 5. (Compilation) Africanism All Stars (Box Set), Yellow Productions Recordings 6. Dj Swamp, "Never is Now" Lakeshore Records 7. Yoko Ono "Blue Print for a SunRise" Captitol Records 8. John Oswald, Plunderphonics (Box set), Seeland 9. Femi Kuti featuring Mos Def "Do Your Best" MCA 10. Dj Spinna "Final Guidance Mix" Instinct/Shadow Records Bonus Beats: Fugazi "The Argument" Dischord Records war The Campaign Against Terrorism: Prospects After the Fall of the Taliban http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2001/rp01-112.pdf Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/ International Federation of Iranian Refugees http://www.hambastegi.org/ Pashtuns Have Cornered Omar "And Will Lynch Him" http://www.paknews.com/specialNews.php?id=392&date1=2001-12-20 US Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22INQU.html?pagewanted=print Compound 1080: Invisible Threat? http://www.msnbc.com/news/674131.asp http://www.google.com/search?q=sodium+monoflouroacetate&btnG=Google+Search History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/ Yemen Pursues Hunt for Bin Laden Fighters After 17 Killed http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=194454&lang=e&dir=news http://www.albawaba.com/headlines/TheNews.php3?action=story&sid=194275&lang=e&dir=news Yemen: Map and CIA Fact Book http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Yemen/Map.html http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ym.html Somalia: Map and CIA Fact Book http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Somalia/Map.html http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/so.html Philippine War's New Front http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15303-2001Dec21.html Philippines: Map and CIA Fact Book http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/Philippines/Map.html http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rp.html Flight School Warned FBI of Suspicions http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22PILO.html?pagewanted=print Database Flaws Could Hamper Any National ID System, Experts Warn http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a122001.html "Voluntary" Police Interviews of Middle-Easterners Are Wrongful and Ineffective http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20011217_ramasastry.html White Paper on the Assassination of Union Leader Casimiro Huanca http://www.narconews.com/warlog.html intellectual property Coming Soon: Hollywood Versus the Internet http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-net-mg.htm The DMCA, Decryption, and Building Fences in Cyberspace http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20011220.html amendments to UCITA http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/UCITA-2001-comm-fin.htm Copy Protection Stalemate Slows Broadband Deployment http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011221S0040 music critics' top-ten lists Jumping Fences Best Albums of 2001 ("compiled from every critics' list we've been able to get our hands on") http://geocities.com/jfences/Gr1000_2001.htm http://geocities.com/jfences/Gr1000_2001b.htm http://geocities.com/jfences/Gr1000_2001critics.htm top 20 records from Pitchfork http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/ Djangos 50 Best CDs of 2001 https://www.djangomusic.com/features/2001/011119_F1.asp?djc=DJ2412230237182122201314461014DT22C02CWWDT8219WIZIIZ0WG3BWSBSUGAD Amazon.com: Music / Best of 2001 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/714572/ref=m_hp_r_ls_1_1/ Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics' Poll 2000 (if/when they publish the 2001 poll we'll send it out) http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/pazznjop/00/ Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll http://www.bestmusicpoll.com/ politics Job Swap In Public Affairs at RNC, DOJ (this is the person who ran the "Gore is a liar" smear campaign) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15206-2001Dec21.html GOP Pushes to Make Daschle Appear a National Villain (attacked by anthrax and slime, he calmly does what's right) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/politics/21DASC.html http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060133 Daschle's response to some of the slime (the slime about judicial nominations is especially vile) http://www.truthout.com/12.22A.Daschle.Fleischer.htm this "red states versus blue states" business is stupid and wrong (it's the new stereotyping) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h122101_1.shtml Lobbying Battles of 2001 http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZF43Q3HVC bringing back the Cold War http://www.stopottoreich.net/ everything else Microsoft Launches "Gold" Security Partner Program (you can join the club if you don't talk about the bugs) http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/21/microsoft.gold.idg/ bizarre Novell anti-Microsoft site http://www.WhyTheyLie.com/ CWA's AT&T site http://www.attinsider.com/ "Errors of Judgment" Are Piling Up at Andersen (the big accounting firms have severe conflict-of-interest problems) http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=917422 another site by ex-Enron employees (who should sue the brains out of Andersen) http://www.thecrookede.com/ The Crime of Distributed Computing http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23477.html faculty jobs in HCI and privacy etc at Penn State http://ist.psu.edu/jobposts/index.cfm Cognitive Science, Fairfax, Virginia, 8-10 August 2002 http://hfac.gmu.edu/~cogsci/ Architects Ask, "What Did I Do to Cause This?" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000101120dec21.story end
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