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: Orchestre Baobab, On Verra Ca: The 1978 Paris Sessions war US Troops Set Up Philippines Camp http://www.msnbc.com/news/683221.asp Police Charge Suspected Al-Qaida Chief http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,635024,00.html indictment, US v. Reid http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usreid011602ind.html "in return for security in the region, the US will snap up central Asia's oil" http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4336181,00.html the Bush scandals White House once again refuses to turn over Cheney energy documents http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/business/18BUSH.html archivists trying to rescind Bush's order on presidential records http://www.archivists.org/news/actnow.html "a troubling disregard for accountability in government" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0201170059jan17.story Enron's Influence Reached Deep Into Administration http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64756-2002Jan17.html Enron: A System Corrupted http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/opinion/18KRUG.html "conservatives rejected safeguards that would have alleviated the damage" (Enron is about reality, not about scandal, and that's much worse) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012802/editorial012802.html The Real Enron Scandal by Dan Schorr http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0118/p11s03-cods.html If Enron Isn't a Political Scandal, Nothing Is (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/01/18/enron_scandal/ After Enron, Bush Has Little Wiggle Room http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004471jan17.story Bush strategy for avoiding Enron liability: stick it on them too (in a world of jargon, innocent associations count as much as guilty ones) http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012802/lizza012802.html jargon watch: scripting your opponent's thought processes (beyond the reach of rational argument, so impossible to defend against) http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/2002/01/011702_National_Review.html Enron: Congress Could've Seen It Coming http://www.usatoday.com/money/covers/2002-01-17-bcovthu.htm Dems Should Clobber the GOP With Enron by Chris Matthews (a taste of what it'd be like if there were five dozen nutcase liberal pundits) http://www.mostnewyork.com/2002-01-17/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-138425.asp three of Ken Lay's four Aspen properties are up for sale http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jan/17/011700744.html Deals That Helped Doom Enron Began to Form in the Early 90's http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/business/18PART.html Enron documents http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/enron/ Enron's Chief Sold Shares After Receiving Warning Letter http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/18/business/18ANDY.html?pagewanted=print More Than One Enron Official Warned Company About Growing Crisis http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/18/enron_partnerships/ Ex-Enron Employees Suggest Anderson Helped Veil Deals http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004423jan17.story Arthur Andersen: The Enron Scandal's Other Big Donor http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_38.asp Andersen Falls Deeper Into Enron Crisis http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,635406,00.html civil liberties and security ALERT: National ID Cards from DMV? Protect Your Privacy! http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020116_eff_dmv_natl_id_alert.html Airport Chief Reconsiders Face Recognition Technology for Green (after learning that the vendor's claims were overblown) http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/news/06877271.htm DNA Frees 100th Inmate http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020117/sc/dna_100th_freed_1.html What To Do With Al-Qaeda Prisoners http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=939231 Solaris Hole Opening Way for Hackers (it's a buffer overflow) http://news.com.com/2100-1001-815793.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5101799,00.html billg's "trustworthiness" memo, with caustic commentary http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23715.html Oracle's false advertising about security http://www.securityfocus.com/news/309 Cryptographic Abundance http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/insight0102.asp The Chronic Insecurity of the US Nuclear Weapons Complex http://www.tompaine.com/op_ads/opad.cfm?ID=4965 intellectual property domain name arbitration gone mad http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-1276.html rant against the whole idea of a domain name system (it's weird to see hordes of lawyers fighting over something so spurious) http://www.satn.org/archive/2002_01_13_archive.html#8682739 CD-Creator Philips Blasts Labels Over Protected Discs http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=25954758 Copyright Management in Higher Education, College Park, MD, 4-5 April 2002 http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/copy_manage2002/ politics Club for Growth Blames Daschle for Deficit (Washington Times reports that Bush himself ordered the attacks on Daschle) http://hotlinescoop.com/web/content/ads/cfg020116.htm Administration to Review Antitrust Laws (uh oh) http://news.findlaw.com/ap/a/w/1151/1-17-2002/200201171011263104.html Bush Antitrust Overhaul Collapses http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62087-2002Jan17.html everything else lawsuit that's preventing an ISP from dumping a spammer http://litigation.paetec.net/ Hitachi to release wearable PC with matching head-mount display next month http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,79823,00.asp Broadband Prices Are Up; Adoption Rates Are Down http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/broadband/article/0,,10099_957511,00.html Driverless Taxi Goes for Test Run (read Bruno Latour's "Aramis" for a disastrous version of this in France) http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,635239,00.html the long-running scandal of the route 91 electronic toll road in Orange County (stupid privatization tricks) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000004382jan17.story a think tank that actually defends secret offshore banking http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/ Silvio Berlusconi Giving Italy a Bad Name (to the contrary, Italy gave itself a bad name by voting for the jerk) http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=940125 jargon watch: "Since when did higher education become an exercise in flattery?" (I count four separate jargon devices in this one sentence) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000004265jan17.story excerpt from an interesting article about Descartes' mathematics http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/28.1/jones.html Germany Boosts Wind Power http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1765000/1765054.stm US Pressures Europe to Drop GMO Labeling Rules http://ens-news.com/ens/jan2002/2002L-01-16-04.html end
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