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: Arhoolie Records 40th Anniversary Collection war A Questionable US Strategy in Southeast Asia http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0201_31/p019region.html Feuding Afghan Tribes Said Misleading US Forces http://afghan-info.com/afghnews.htm#Feuding US: Phase II of Our War Will Satisfy India http://www.indian-express.com/ie20020125/top1.html Differences Surface Between India and US: Issues Concerning Pakistan http://www.dawn.com/2002/01/24/top2.htm Warlord Death "Link With Sharon Case" (but then everyone had a motive) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1780000/1780946.stm notice the weird writing style -- you can't quite tell who's being mocked (this sort of diffuse, dissociated nastiness is common in the Washington Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020124-23109880.htm civil liberties and security Will Walker's Statements Be Admitted Against Him? http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew44.php Captives and the Law (the underlying problem is the confusion between war and crime) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/opinion/26LEWI.html Delegations Praise Detainees' Treatment http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40537-2002Jan25.html The Military Tribunals on Trial (it's amazing how much has been written on this, compared to other things) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15122 Bush Proposes Tracking System for Noncitizens (an infrastructure for tracking people, once set up, will find other uses) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37758-2002Jan25.html jargon watch: on profiling -- study the anti-logic in the first four paragraphs (this sort of thing is normal on the Journal's opinion pages) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001778 California Supreme Court decision on warrantless car searches http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/arturo/parturod012402casup.pdf A Guide to Judging Microsoft's Security Progress http://www.securityfocus.com/news/315 Wireless Workplaces Asking for Trouble http://news.com.com/2100-1033-823033.html Mac Thief Caught Thanks to Applescript and Timbuktu http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/23/2212221.shtml http://www.macscripter.net/unscripted.html federal depository libraries being made to destroy information http://www.news-gazette.com/story.cfm?Number=10892 the Bush scandals Critic Who Quit Top Enron Post Is Found Dead (let's not spread rumors about this like others did about Vince Foster) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26HOUS.html?pagewanted=print http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40635-2002Jan25.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26SCEN.html Enron Vice Chairman Cliff Baxter Resigns (May 2001) http://www.enron.com/corp/pressroom/releases/2001/ene/41-CliffBaxter-05-02-01-LTR.html "being treated like Communists and gangsters is a warning to any industry" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25NORR.html?pagewanted=print more badly written, jargon-laced propaganda in the New York Times ("neither party was more tainted than the other" is party line and just false) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25SCEN.html GAO Vows to Sue For Cheney Files http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40005-2002Jan25.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26CHEN.html?pagewanted=print Ex-Workers Say Unit's Earnings Were "Illusory" (what a coincidence -- so were our projected surpluses) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25SELL.html numerous copies of Enron's Corporate Ethics Manual now being auctioned on eBay (I find this intensely weird) http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=Enron++ethics Army Chief Being Challenged on Ties to Enron http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/business/25WHIT.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26WHIT.html Elizabeth Dole held a fund-raiser at Ken Lay's house on September 20th (is that what you were doing on that day?) http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/opinion/editorial/MGBJU388SWC.html Spreading It Around http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/opinion/25KRUG.html about now-SEC chair Pitt's 1990 letter on Anderson and auditor independence http://www.sec.gov/info/accountants/noaction/aaartan2.htm sorting out the Big 5 accounting firms and their relations to ASP's http://www.aspnews.com/trends/article/0,2350,10571_961791,00.html A Proposed New Way to Police Accounting Still Relies on Accountants http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/21/business/21PITT.html?pagewanted=print Companies With Asbestos Exposure Liabilities Rise on Possible Limits (taking responsibility is for other people) http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020125/n25234994_1.html everything else argument that discounting creates an obstacle to Amazon success beyond books http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/technology/ebusiness/26AMAZ.html?pagewanted=print article about three consumer sites run by individuals http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=684 Direct Marketing Association creates supposedly mandatory spam rules (but their track record of enforcing such rules is very poor) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-822053.html program that overwhelms spammers' address-harvesting spiders http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/ NTT Researchers Predict 10Gbps Wireless http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/23809.html Comcast Gunning for NAT Users http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/24/1957236.shtml consumer groups' letter about Bush plan to move media mergers from FTC to DOJ http://www.consumersunion.org/telecom/hollingdc102.htm The NSDL Scout Reports (next generation of a longstanding service for scouring the Web) http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/nsdl-reports/ IBM to Sell Linux-Only Mainframe http://news.com.com/2100-1001-822771.html George Bush endorses the blithering nonsense of "Bias" (this sort of photo-op is one way his handlers send messages to the right) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020125/170/10o2j.html "Bias" Isn't Supported -- Because It's Not True http://www.arizonarepublic.com/viewpoints/articles/0120turn0120rendall.html jargon watch: study the despicable code-language in the first two paragraphs (translation: liberals are marginal frivolous terrorist criminal nuts) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=95001777 there's no special hurry to confirm any Supreme Court nominees http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35175-2002Jan24?language=printer end
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