Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war "reasons why Mr. Bush may prefer to whip up irrational war hysteria" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2002062638,00.html Bush's Comments Bolster Old Guard in Tehran http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/international/middleeast/08IRAN.html Is North Korean Threat Overstated? (it's a bad place, no doubt about it, but extreme language doesn't help anyone) http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-020702norkor.story the United States' not entirely admirable history in the Philippines http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/05/eguillermo.DTL the war on terror lets us admit that military aid to Colombia is about oil (next stop: Venezuela) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/06/international/americas/06COLO.html?pagewanted=print Is a US Bioweapons Scientist Behind Last Fall's Anthrax Attacks? (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/02/08/anthrax/print.html Computer Wins Afghan Battlefield Spurs http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020206001717 Robot Weapons Convince Sceptics http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020205001456 US Military Might Gains Greater Power From Anti-Terror Campaign http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020207002004 New Weapon Systems Are Budget Winners http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42716-2002Feb7.html indictment of John Walker Lindh http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uswlindh020502cmp.html images purporting to show an Army attack on a Taliban tank (they're interesting images whatever they are) http://www.nbcnco.com/taliban.jpg article about scrounging for old Russian hardware in the Kandahar airport http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/06/savidge.day6.otsc/ No Oases for Saudi Youths http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009590feb07.story civil liberties and security Airport Security Revamp in the Works in Boston http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36158-2002Feb6.html Michael Moore on his book almost not getting published (this is why media concentration is dangerous) http://www.michaelmoore.com/2002_0205.html "presence awareness" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/technology/circuits/07HERE.html?pagewanted=all Experts Vote Down Internet Elections http://www.msnbc.com/news/701210.asp Microsoft Taunted With "Trustworthy Computing" Web Page http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23966.html the Bush scandals "Bush lawyers have an aggressive strategy to advance presidential authority" (the word "republican" used to mean something, and it wasn't this) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZHN4RPDXC Bush's Executive-Privilege Two-Step (see also Douglas Kmiec's wildly deceptive op-ed in Thursday's WSJ) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/02/07/bush_records/print.html Cheney Goes From Asset to Albatross http://www.nj.com/opinion/ledger/index.ssf?/columns/farmer/15c4531.html a graphic account of Thursday's Enron testimony (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/02/08/enron/print.html Former CEO Skilling's Testimony Elicits Disdain, Derision in Houston http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42762-2002Feb7.html Lay's Ties to Bush Go Back Years http://www.dallasnews.com/politics/statenews/stories/lay_07tex.ART0.Zone1.Edition1.15225.html Enron's Collapse and America's Crony Capitalism http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020206001932 Enron Payments to Top Journalists Sign of an Ongoing Trend http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5070 Enron controversy at Harvard http://www.harvardwatch.org/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349518,00.html Scandals 101: Lessons of the S&L Meltdown for Enron Law Firms http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZOG3JNCXC Enron Contributions to Current Members of the House, 1989-2001 (huge table may take minutes to load) http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/enron_cong_house_alpha.asp Mansion Loophole in Bankruptcy Laws Targeted http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009625feb07.story Credit Agencies Waited Months to Voice Doubt About Enron http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/business/08RATE.html?pagewanted=print Enron Workers Say They Faked Trading to Impress Analysts http://www.msnbc.com/news/701439.asp Lawyer Warned Enron Officials of Dubious Deals a Year Before Collapse http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/business/07LAWY.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35985-2002Feb6.html Enron Execs Touted Their Ethics on an Educational CD (what a coincidence: George Bush ran for president on his character) http://www.khou.com/news/local/khou020205_nh_enroncd.13d4b0d.html why so many people want Andersen shut down http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/02/07/arthur_andersen/ politics Republican and Democratic views of the budget http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/index.html http://www.senate.gov/~budget/democratic/ some good measures of the budget's awfulness http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/opinion/08KRUG.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000009217feb06.story jargon watch: Rush Limbaugh announces that liberals in general are evil (projection is a positive feedback loop, and it can get much worse) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_02_03_archive.html#9484426 jargon watch: "we need to execute Walker to physically intimidate liberals" http://pages.ivillage.com/partisanwitchhunt/action.html jargon watch: blanket accusations of "relativism" were always a caricature (but pundits somehow turn the counterevidence into more grounds for attacks) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001831 jargon watch: "controversial nominees often are political fodder for Democrats" (wow) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/pickering_020502.html everything else NPR Tunes In to Multimedia Reporting http://news.com.com/2100-1023-832020.html circuit court says that thumbnail photos not covered by copyright http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZF07DWDXC Advanced Radio Technologies, Boulder, 4-6 March 2002 http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/meetings/art/ "Digital Divide" Report Criticized http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/02/06/digital-divide.htm cool press release about evidence for the genetics of early evolution http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mchox.htm The Chowhound Passport (it says "bring me the serious food, not the tourist stuff" in eight languages) http://chowhound.safeshopper.com/18/cat18.htm?837 end
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