Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Musharraf Takes on Spy Agency http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0222/p01s04-wosc.html "US retracting a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states" http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020222-77660232.htm Bush's War in Afghanistan: A Case of Big Mission Creep? http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=19 Europe Seethes as the US Flies Solo in World Affairs http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/international/europe/23NATO.html?pagewanted=all How the Left Undermined America's Security by David Horowitz (it's like a visit to another planet) http://bugler-john.50megs.com/HOROWITZ%20ON%20911.PDF%20FEB%2018%202002.pdf "National Guard units across the country fake troop level reports" http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/02/21/usat-guard.htm civil liberties and security Drivers Face Road Charge By Satellite http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,656107,00.html Report Reveals Serious Flaws in Safe Harbor Agreement http://europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=8608 The Video Surveillance Debate http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/feb/surveillance/020225.surveillance.html Risks Prompt US to Limit Access to Data http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58430-2002Feb23.html Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'? http://nytimes.com/2002/02/24/weekinreview/24BOHL.html Indonesia: Justice for East Timor Still Elusive http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/02/etimor0221.htm scandal Did Illegally Counted Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 Election? http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kimai/research/ballots.html Contracts So Complex They Imperil the System http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/business/yourmoney/24DERI.html?pagewanted=print A Fellow May Squirm a Bit in a Chair Endowed by Ken Lay ("reviled tycoons have long bankrolled the nation's finest universities") http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000014258feb24.story Enron Designed Fake Trading Floor http://www.click2houston.com/hou/news/stories/news-124836820020222-130220.html SEC Draws a Hard Line on Enforcement After Enron (we'll wait to see if they actually clean the stables) http://netscape5.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5DF7959E-CFBE-44B1-A918-9BC1B937FDBB%7D Tech Firms Fight Shift in Rules on Options (distorted accounting rules on options a major factor in the dot-com bubble) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35660-2002Feb19.html radio story about Al Haig's allegedly fraudulent public TV program (kind of pathetic actually) http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20020222.atc.06.ram http://www.wnyc.org/new/talk/onthemedia/transcripts_022302_wbr.html politics Overdue Reform: The Need For Statewide Computerized Voter Registration Systems (I haven't read this carefully and don't have an opinion about it) http://www.demos-usa.org/Pubs/Overdue/overdue_reform_final.pdf jargon watch: ethnic stereotypes are back! (study the contorted rhetoric that drags them out from under their rock) http://play.rbn.com/?wgbh/world/demand/fr8.rm jargon watch: pundit A hints at something false, pundit B out and says it (study how Gingrich breaks the association by projecting it into others' heads) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h022202_1.shtml intellectual property more on the woes of the music industry (which deserves them) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000014253feb24.story Webcasters, Analysts Survey Internet Radio's Post-CARP Landscape http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/022202/index.asp#story2 http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/022202/index.asp#story1 more on the settlement in the privacy-invasive CD suit http://www.techfirm.com/sunnk.pdf http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/22/1518243&mode=thread http://www.fahrenheitentertainment.com/newsreleases/newsrelease032201.htm http://news.com.com/2100-1023-272784.html Napster Wins One Round in Music Case ("these ventures look bad, smell bad and sound bad") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/technology/23MUSI.html everything else "a new mass-mailing worm is the first to use its own SMTP routine to propagate" http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002feb/gee20020222010390.htm Spam Worsens, Slows AT&T E-Mail ("unsolicited messages now 20 percent off all traffic") http://www.msnbc.com/news/713079.asp Web Site Helped Change Farm Policy ("in farm circles the site has the name recognition of Heinz ketchup") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/politics/24WORK.html Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library http://www.ils.unc.edu/ils/research/reports/TR-2001-03.pdf Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/wp42.html article on the bungled roll-out of HDTV (no, it worked fine -- the broadcasters got all the free spectrum they wanted) http://www.slate.msn.com/?id=2062270 scientist who studies self-medication in animals http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23315 Captain Euro http://www.captaineuro.com/ Commander Europe (halfway down the page) http://minorities.orf.at/austria/en/archiv02/010521_en.htm Chant to the OAS http://www.oas.org/children/chant.html end
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