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: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The Bootleg Series, Volume 4 Happy New Year. war "New" US War: Commandos, Airstrikes and Allies on the Ground http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/international/29STRA.html?pagewanted=all Many Say US Planned for Terror but Failed to Take Action http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/national/30TERR.html?pagewanted=print How a Report on Terrorism Flew Under the Radar http://www.cjr.org/year/01/6/evans.asp MI5 Blunders Over Bomber http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,625833,00.html The Making of a Human Timebomb http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,625823,00.html Bush to Ignore Rule on Written Notices of Intelligence Actions http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=uspolitics_news.ht&s=APCz2EBapQnVzaCB0 Seeking an Arab View of News http://www.sunspot.net/technology/bal-te.journal27dec27.column How Islam Lost Its Way (a call for secularism) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37263-2001Dec28.html Pak, India to Exchange List of Nuclear Facilities http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=1077264592 "Plan Colombia" Leads the US Into the Heart of Darkness http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000103060dec30.story Missile Defense: The Untold Story http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/opinion/29KELL.html Healing After Terror http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0111/article/011103.html civil liberties and security A Tantrum Over Art in Memphis (I'm struck by the oblivious arts people's inability to defend themselves) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/arts/design/29LIBE.html right-wing claim that Israeli spies breached the feds' wiretapping system (I have no idea whether it's true; the news is simply that they're claiming it) http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/224826.shtml Security Overhaul for Wireless Networks http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1723000/1723171.stm politics lists of newspapers that endorsed Bush versus Gore (1996 was one of few occasions when a majority endorsed the Democrat) http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/Political.htm#Endorsements Language: A Key Mechanism of Control (from Newt Gingrich's GOPAC, it's the Rosetta Stone of modern jargon) http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html watch jargon: a festival of jargon from one of the pros (it's one-sided to start with, and its paraphrases twist everything) http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20011227-60253775.htm habitual Republican mendacity on the issue of judicial appointments (absolutism corrupts absolutely) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37242-2001Dec28.html jargon watch: textbook example of PR techniques for casting doubt on a number (use rhetoric to insert negative symbols between the number and reality) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41706,00.html The Politics of Scholarship: Liberals, Anti-Communism, and McCarthyism (Cold War liberals' curious refusal to blame McCarthyism on conservatives) http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/theoharis.html music critics' top-ten lists top-ten list from Zuendfunk (described by a reader as "without doubt the best music show on German radio") http://www.br-online.de/jugend/zuendfunk/musik/charts2001/alben01.htm The Year in Music (discusses many bands you haven't seen listed elsewhere) http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/06/music.shtml The Year in Classical Music http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,623170,00.html The Year in Rock and Pop http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,623171,00.html everything else Symposium: Advisors and the Dissertation Proposal (several articles -- may require a password or site license, I'm not sure) http://www.apsanet.org/PS/dec01/toc.cfm ICT Infrastructure and Externalities Affecting Spatial Structures (the author's English isn't great but the argument is interesting) http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb67.html Globalisation, the New Economy and Regionalisation (this is really about the role of networking in regional production governance) http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb70.html World Currency Museum (showing how many countries have currency that's cooler than the Euro) http://www.banknotes.com/images.htm indispensable map-making site http://www.mapquest.com/ "the shocking effect that using a mobile phone has on a child's brain" (I like the Mirror, but realize that it's not a serious newspaper) http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/shtml/NEWS/P15S3.shtml India Deal Mired in Enron Collapse http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011224/bs/energy_bg_enron_dc_1.html Early Warnings of Trouble at Enron (audits should be organized by shareholders' cooperatives) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40094-2001Dec29.html the travesty at the Smithsonian http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/27/ED170372.DTL Mexicans Angered by Spread of Modified Genes in Corn (I hope someone has kept a clean copy of the earth on backup tape) http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mexico-Modified-Corn.html New Mexico Church Plans Harry Potter Book Burning http://sg.news.yahoo.com/reuters/asia-80672.html end
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