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: Baaba Maal and Mansour Seck, Djam Leelii war Berated Philippine Government Backtracks on US Troops http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020118/wl/philippines_usa_dc_7.html US Special Forces Make Camp in Philippine Jungle http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000005229jan20.story http://www.msnbc.com/news/691046.asp A 100-Acre Summary of Afghan Needs http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000005201jan20.story sad radio story about the Kabul library http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020117.me.02.ram United States May Not Fulfill Commitment to Afghanistan (they think we're going to walk out on them again) http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/city.asp?id=4&date1=1/19/2002 Colombia: The US Continues Its Strategy of "Eternal War" http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000005035jan20.story robots will be the combat pilots of the future (the fact is, current planes' performance is limited by the needs of the pilot) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-011902drone.story civil liberties and security Brutal Conditions Inside Cuban Cage (impressive photos) http://www.smh.com.au/news/0201/20/world/world1.html The Problem With Open-Air Cages http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/01/20/do2002.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2002/01/20/ixopinion.html the wildly incompetent CIA now has vast powers to spy domestically on Americans (the authoritarians claim we've hobbled them; the truth is that they're lame) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/weekinreview/20WEIN.html Big Brother Finds Ally in Once-Wary High Tech http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004858jan19.story Summit Airs Federal Workers' Bias Complaints http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9093-2002Jan19?language=printer The Face of Security Technology (the hucksterism and inflated claims behind automatic face recognition) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/yourmoney/20PROF.html?pagewanted=print Fingerprint Evidence http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=939896 Airport Checks Vulnerable to Hackers, Experts Say http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/17/MN180845.DTL court decision denying C-SPAN permission to televise the Moussaoui trial http://www.c-span.org/laws_courts/decision.asp Long Wait for Filing of Charges Common for September 11th Detainees http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5138-2002Jan18.html the Bush scandals New GOP Leader Faces Enron Cloud http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0201180207jan18.story Republican Bosses Can't Escape From Enron Glare http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/enron/1218175 Enron and the Bushes http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020204&s=corn flying on the Enron jet to sit in the Enron Box at Enron Field ("Enron contributed $736,800 to Bush -- far more than any other corporation") http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=bivens20020117 For Enron Families, Dreams and Faith Lost http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8832-2002Jan19.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/20WORK.html Why Insiders Get Rich, and the Little Guy Loses http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000005039jan20.story Taxpayers May Have to Pay Millions for Enron Foreign Losses (if we were really pursuing free trade then OPIC wouldn't exist) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2002/01/18/national/18ENRON.htm Enron Taxpayer Tab Could Top $1B http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,324380-412,00.shtml Enron Is Proving Costly to Economy http://www.latimes.com/business/la-012002cost.story Bush Gave Enron Breathing Room http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0204/ridgeway.php Enron's Far-Reaching Web http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000004776jan19.story Cheney's Role Draws Scrutiny http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004894jan19.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5322-2002Jan18.html Enron's Enablers http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/3/meyerson-h.html Enron Conservatives http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020204&s=borosage Democrats, GOP Debate the Effects of Enron (Democrats' problem is the pundit gap: candidates can't push it hard enough) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8705-2002Jan19.html Florida's Late Enron Buys Questioned http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworld/orl-asecenron18011802jan18.story Enron's New $5bn Black Hole http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,636104,00.html How 287 Turned Into 7: Lessons in Fuzzy Math http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/yourmoney/20EARN.html?pagewanted=all Multiple Safeguards Failed to Detect Problems at Enron http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/20GOVE.html?pagewanted=print Unleash Independent Counsel on Enron http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1217426 Lay's Q&A With Staff Downplayed Rumors http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/1218193 Enron Chairman Urged Employees to Buy Stock ("'Talk up the stock and talk positively about Enron', Lay told employees") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000004854jan19.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5418-2002Jan18.html Andersen Head Office "Discussed Enron Purge" http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3EOGU7LWC&live=true jargon watch: the NAM person's quote is a masterpiece of calculated vagueness (a blurred distinction, happy cases made to stand for all, and the word "that") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/weekinreview/20UCHI.html In Houston, the Lines Dividing Politics, Business and Society Are Blurry (being pro-business is just as dangerous as being anti-business) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/business/20HOUS.html?pagewanted=print Texas Prosecutors Disqualified From Probe by Personal Ties http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5470-2002Jan18.html news from Planet Microsoft Trust, But Verify, Microsoft's Pledge http://news.com.com/2010-1078-818611.html SGI Transfers 3D Graphics Patents to Microsoft (thus giving the Redmond planet increased leverage over hardware companies) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23708.html public comment period on the US-Microsoft settlement ends January 28th http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms-settle.htm politics pre-Sept. 11th, Bush was too busy with missile defense to bother with al-Qaeda http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8734-2002Jan19.html GOP Touts War as Campaign Issue (got a problem with that? you're just partisan) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4512-2002Jan18.html Bipartisanship Defined: "Bash the Other Party" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/20/IN152500.DTL jargon watch: melt the troublesome item into a larger, "positive" category (see Mindy Tucker's statement blurring Karl Rove's partisan use of the war) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/20/politics/20DEMS.html?pagewanted=print politics of broadband in Washington ("Republican operatives see a new broadband push as a fund-raising tool") http://www.msnbc.com/news/690095.asp everything else AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat (fine with me: Red Hat needs help, and IBM is supporting Linux too) http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html Europe GPS Plan Shelved (due to US pressure) http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49778,00.html Philips Moves to Put "Poison" Label on Protected Audio CDs http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23736.html The Rise of the Independent Media Center Movement http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=681 the unfolding travesty at the Smithsonian (are there any Web sites by Smithsonian researchers and curators about this?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3374-2002Jan18?language=printer http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/12/27/ED170372.DTL more on the stupid privatization tricks in Orange County http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000004903jan19.story 2001: The Year in Music http://www.flakmag.com/music/2001/ US Surname Distribution http://www.hamrick.com/names/index.html end
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