Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war report from the Afghan village that we attacked based on bad intelligence http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20020204.me.02.ram Bush Keeps Terror Photo "Scorecard" http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020203/pl/attacks_bush_2.html Bush's Speech Shuts Door on Tenuous Opening to Iran (he'd rather have an enemy than engage with an emerging democracy) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18121-2002Feb3.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,644988,00.html yet he omitted Syria, whose government has no redeeming value at all http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=125006 http://docsmgmt.hrw.org/syria-pubs.php "Israeli peace group that supports soldiers who refuse repressive assignments" http://www.yesh-gvul.org/english.html Pearl Uncovered Jaish-Pak Govt Complicity: Paper (I have no idea) http://origin.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=875141272 Al Qaida May Have Tried to Kill Clinton (but it's UPI so who knows) http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=04022002-082828-8434r a bunch of photos to accompany the Post's series on the White House at war http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/flash/photo/politics/10days/index.htm civilian technology influencing the military http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/fallows.htm civil liberties and security Muslims Feel September 11th Chill as Mecca Plays It Safe http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/international/middleeast/05SAUD.html thoughtful article on anti-terrorist legislation by Bruce Ackerman http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n03/acke2403.htm Bush May Ax Police Technology Program http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Terrorism-Technology.html ABA Defies Bush on Tribunals http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020204/ap_on_re_us/aba_tribunals_6 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21229-2002Feb4.html Scalia Questions Church's Position on Capital Punishment http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020205/ap_on_go_su_co/scalia_death_penalty_1 http://pewforum.org/deathpenalty/resources/transcript3.php3 the government is still ignoring "brain fingerprinting" (thankfully) http://www.techreview.com/articles/hogan013002.asp "the US government's central website for information about identity theft" http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/ The Magazine of Wireless Location http://www.nearmagazine.com/ The Whole Earth, the Digital Earth, and the Eclipse of Wonder (a response to David Brin's arguments against privacy) http://baja.sscnet.ucla.edu/~curry/Curry_VESG.pdf Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Fifth Year Statement http://www.cyber-rights.org/5th_year_statement.htm background on the Tlatelolco Massacre, Mexico City, 1968 http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1968mexico.html http://www.imagenlatinoamericana.com/latinoamerica/latinoamerica_en.asp?articleId=155 http://199.97.97.78/todo/2001/12/13/-----/8875-0351-Mexico-Massacre..html the Bush scandals Bush's Aggressive Accounting http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/opinion/05KRUG.html Overstatements in the State of the Union? http://www.msnbc.com/news/698840.asp#intelligence Bush again cuts a program after using it for a photo-op http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/101265459814372237.xml Confusing the Facts of the GAO-Cheney Dispute ("Fleischer and Cheney consistently exaggerate the GAO's request") http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020204.html Memo Details Cheney-Enron Links (from last Wednesday; it includes a link to a PDF file of the memo) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/30/MN46204.DTL&type=news "but Cheney may be hiding more than that ..." http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,198862,00.html the allegedly incriminating Enron board report (I've provided some different sources just in case) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/enron/enron.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/sicreport/ http://www.chron.com/content/news/photos/02/02/03/enron-powersreport.pdf assorted fallout from the report (the Salon article requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/02/03/enron/print.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/04/business/04RAPT.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23663-2002Feb4.html Enron Seen Facing Criminal Prosecution http://www.msnbc.com/news/698979.asp http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/04/business/04CRIM.html compare Enron to the Bush brothers' dealings of ten-fifteen years ago http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/13/president.2000/jackson.bush/ Whereabouts of Enron's Lay a Mystery: House Panel http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/020204/n04131532_1.html Wall Street Banks "Knew About Enron" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2002/02/02/cnron02.xml&sSheet=/money/2002/02/02/ixcity.html Enron: A Powerful Blow to Market Fundamentalists http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_05/b3768043.htm Editorial Comment: Holding Enron to Account (imagine thousands of companies quietly scrambling to fix their books) http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3B01299XC AFL-CIO Asks SEC Bar Enron Directors http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020204/bs/enron_union_dc_1.html identifying the limited partners in the Enron scam (they might be in the same trouble as Enron) http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,6613,00.html The Houston Chronicle Stays Loyal to Kenny Boy (or so their competitors say) http://houstonpress.com/issues/2002-01-31/hostage.html/1/index.html cartoon about Enron http://www.globeandmail.ca/series/cartoon/01friedcar.html intellectual property The Bell Tolls for FreeRepublic.com (their use of news articles resembles the early political uses of print) http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id2015/pg1/ the coming Napsterization of TV http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/035/business/The_television_industry_is_running_scaredP.shtml http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_06/b3769087.htm Microsoft Is Moving Into the Movie Biz http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=26139798 "Dirty Dozen" Bills Reveal a Tech-Activist Congress: Cato (compulsory licensing of online content, though, is a lesser evil) http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174175.html http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-423es.html Positive Intellectual Rights and Information Exchanges (I haven't studied this, though, so I don't know if the argument works) http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/aigrain.pdf politics Washington Times attacks them -- then offers to sell them ad space to rebut! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18447-2002Feb3.html the desolate state of media discourse, e.g., about "bias" http://www.dailyhowler.com/h020202_1.shtml jargon watch: study Mitch Daniels' "mad cow disease" quote (this exact pattern is extremely common) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/05/national/05ASSE.html jargon watch: study the quotes by spokesman Steve Drachler (he's working a repertoire of jargon devices that we've grown numb to) http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20020202cmup2.asp everything else Smithsonian Benefactor Cancels $38 Million Gift (she pretends that objections were political rather than principled) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23724-2002Feb4.html Past Talks Snarl Hughes-EchoStar ("approval to become a near-monopoly provider of satellite TV to US consumers") http://www.msnbc.com/news/699324.asp http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=26139093 brief interview with the new CEO of Google http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/035/business/Eric_SchmidtP.shtml articles about the ethical use of e-mail for advertising http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/brs13/Marketing/E-mailMarketing.htm http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3098.txt http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/manage.html Army's Huge Distance-Education Effort Wins Many Supporters in Its First Year http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i22/22a03301.htm Telepresence Sparks a Virtual Revolution in Science Education and Research (yes, it's good work, but do we have to call everything a revolution?) http://www.msnbc.com/news/695357.asp International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors http://public.itrs.net/ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/04/technology/04CHIP.html?pagewanted=print Ultra Wideband http://www.business2.com/webguide/0,,70465,00.html end
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