[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 22:17:05 PST

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
    
    
    war
    
    US Footprints in Steppes of Central Asia
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48200-2002Feb8.html
    
    Searching for Osama
    http://chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0202080013feb08.story
    
    more on Otto Reich, now ass't secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,646835,00.html
    
    Patten Lays Into Bush's America
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,647554,00.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    The Balkans: One Brought to Justice, Many at Large
    http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=975892
    
    Nominations for the Dutch Big Brother Awards 2002
    http://www.bigbrotherawards.nl/index.en.html
    
    Lessons from the NarcoNews Defamation Case Ruling
    http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=696
    
    "Three Strikes" Ruled Unjust in Shoplifting Convictions
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/02/08/MN218794.DTL
    
    The Threat to Patriotism by Ronald Dworkin
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15145
    
    peaceful protest defined as terrorism in a Utah bill
    http://www.kwru.org/updates/utahbill100.html
    
    Modernizing the State Identification System
    (but with dysfunctional DMV's, biometrics just mean better false identities)
    http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=140&subsecid=290&contentid=250175
    http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=140&subsecid=290&contentid=250075
    
    Cyber Security Research and Development Act, HR 3394
    http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_bills&docid=f:h3394eh.txt.pdf
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/z?cp107:hr355p1:
    
    Problems with the Technology Export Control Bill
    (danger to international communication about cryptography)
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/exportbill.html
    
    New York Challenges McAfee Software Covenants
    http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZJG63BFXC
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-832221.html
    
    George Orwell's "1984"
    http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
    
    
    the astounding variety of institutions that Enron allegedly corrupted
    
    jargon watch: Fleischer's use of the Constitutional Convention as a precedent
    ("he selected one narrow fact to make a misleading point")
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/57493_means1.shtml
    
    Enron, Preaching Deregulation, Worked the Statehouse Circuit
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/business/09GIVE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    background on Enron and the Gramms
    http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2002-02-07/feature.html/print.html
    
    Enron Probe Expands to Wall Street
    http://www.newsday.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-enron-wall-street0208feb08.story
    
    Defense Department Included In Effort to Save Enron Data
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48189-2002Feb8.html
    
    State Senator Questions Connecticut Enron Deal
    http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-enron0205.artfeb05.story
    
    Enron Makes Big Money Off California Power Crisis (January 2001)
    http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/enrn25.shtml
    
    Enron Donations a Source of Discomfort for Many Texas Politicians
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48593-2002Feb8.html
    
    Enron Took Role in Florida Policies
    http://www.heraldtribune.com/frontpage/story.cfm?ID=61780
    
    Florida Investigating Enron Stock Purchases in Pension Fund
    http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000009887feb08.story
    
    Jeb Bush Should Recuse Himself From Any Enron Investigations
    http://www.publiccitizen.org/hot_issues/issue.cfm?ID=225
    
    Enron's effects on the computer memory market
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23982.html
    
    Astros Challenge Enron Agreement
    http://houston.astros.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/hou/news/hou_news_story.jsp?article_id=hou_20020205_enron_news&team_id=hou
    http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news/ap/20020207/ap-astros-enron.html
    
    "the SEC's proposed changes in disclosure may be worse than the disease"
    (and the WSJ reports that Harvey Pitt has organized major shredding at the SEC)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/03/business/yourmoney/03WATC.html
    
    Enron Was, in Layman's Terms, a Nest of Dirtballs
    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/2579554.htm
    
    
    everything else
    
    How to Make a $5.6 Trillion Surplus Melt Away
    http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Gene%20Sperling&touch=1&s1=sperling&tp=ad_topright_bbco&T=markets_fgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_bbco&bt=ad_bottom_bbco&s=APGQaChRZSG93IHRv
    
    Online Music Expands Its Audience
    http://cyberatlas.com/big_picture/demographics/article/0,,5901_966981,00.html
    
    Hollywood Lives and Dies by Internet Movie Database
    http://www.uniontrib.com/news/computing/20020206-1303-moviedatabase.html
    
    Columbia University Adds Corporate Training to Its Distance-Education Offerings
    http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002020801u.htm
    
    The Tidal Wave Bearing Down on Telecom
    http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/feb2002/nf2002027_9764.htm
    
    background papers for a conference on "Biotechnology and Global Governance"
    http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/conferences/biotech/Backgroundpapers.html
    
    "strange, peculiar or unexpected search results at Fortune 500 Web sites"
    http://www.atomz.com/strangesearch/
    
    free sample copy of the excellent Chownews San Francisco edition
    http://www.chowhound.com/chownews/sf.html
    
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