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: Dick Gaughan, Handful of Earth war A War of Loose Ends http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/international/asia/10STRA.html New US Envoy to Kabul Lobbied for Taliban Oil Rights (he's of Afghan descent, but he's a conservative Republican first) http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=113662 Taleban in Texas for Talks With Unocal on Gas Pipeline (1997) http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/west_asia/newsid_37000/37021.stm Unocal Corporate Charter Revocation Action Center (they were negotiating with the Taliban, deal with Burma, etc etc) http://heed.home.igc.org/charter/revoke.html http://heed.home.igc.org/charter/updates/update09.html US Efforts to Make Peace Summed Up by "Oil" http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm Arms Buildup Is a Boon to Carlyle Group http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-000002484jan10.story Carlyle's Way http://events.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html Ravaged Psyches in a Generation of Fighting http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/international/asia/09HOSP.html?pagewanted=print Wave of US Immigration Likely to Survive September 11th (glad to hear it -- immigration now has strong support across the spectrum) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002482jan10.story civil liberties and security Security Poor at International Terminals (does anybody have a URL for this report?) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/NEWS/01/10/airport.inspections.ap/ The National ID Card That Isn't, Yet http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,191857,00.html The PR-Driven Heritage Foundation Homeland Security Task Force Report http://www.heritage.org/homelanddefense/welcome.html New Attorney General FOIA Memorandum Issued http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/foiapost/2001foiapost19.htm the Enron scandal Enron Is Target of Criminal Probe http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22709-2002Jan9.html Enron is Not Bush's Whitewater (the difference is that Enron is real) http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={903B88E7-7C09-4FC6-B706-49697A5B66F1}& Compassionately Conserving Enron (glass half full: they have compassion for their campaign contributors anyway) http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000002193jan10.story Ashcroft Deserves a Better Role in the Enron Scandal http://www.rftstl.com/issues/2002-01-09/ray.html/print.html Marc Enron to Give Up Lobbying Work http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22352-2002Jan9.html politics Media's Patriotism Provides a Shield for Bush (Bush states goals and tells his people to do anything to achieve them) http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpkon092542652jan09.story Bush's nomination of Otto Reich (making clear to our Latin American friends just who they're dealing with) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000002241jan10.story Bush administration hostility to science is part of a pattern of irrationalism http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22667-2002Jan9.html jargon watch: blurry associations and second-hand lies from Thomas Sowell (whose "work", academic or journalistic, rarely makes sense) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_01_06_archive.html#8556255 Who Killed Clinton's Dog? http://slate.msn.com/?id=2060576&device= Hill Political Spending Hits High http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p1s1-uspo.html technology A Peer-to-Peer Computing Platform for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks http://www.cs.arizona.edu/mmc/10%20Kortuem.pdf http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/Papers/p2p2001.pdf http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/Papers/how2host.pdf Peer-to-Peer Systems, MIT, 7-8 March 2002 http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/ Parallel and Distributed Processing, Fort Lauderdale, 15-19 April 2002 http://www.npaci.edu/online/v5.14/ipdps.html Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, 18-23 March 2002 http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf2002/genconfinfo.html everything else The Dot-Communist Manifesto (video of a talk) http://www.ibiblio.org/moglen/ The Many Futures of Music, Maybe One of Them Real http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/arts/music/10CONF.html?pagewanted=print The Case Against Knowledge Management http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,36747,FF.html The Technology Source (online journal about IT in higher education) http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=issue&id=85 first known Microsoft .NET virus http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/dotnet.shtml The Limits of Convergence (chapter one of a book on the political economy of globalization) http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s7087.pdf tasteless Dave Thomas cartoon that the Arizona Republic refusted to print (if he'd died of something more clearly junk-food-related then it'd be fair) http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/fairrington.asp The Crackpot Index (any famous scientist can count on a torrent of lunatic physics theories) http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html end
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