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 Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-030902bombs.story http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-arkinmar10.story US Expands Its Presence Across the Globe http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,663947,00.html "Bush may pursue Al Qaeda even in countries that do not ask for a US presence" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/10PREX.html planning a war against Iraq http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020311fa_FACT US Military in Georgia Will Increase Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Security http://huknews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20020308670.2_e94e0005c4fa1ba6 The Big Guys Work For the Carlyle Group http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=206684 long article on the supposed "revolution in military affairs" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/magazine/10MILITARY.html?pagewanted=all DNA-matching of World Trade Center victims http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2002-03-06/smith.html/1/index.html "children attempted to build a barricade from stones and a burning tire" ("an Israeli jeep burst easily through the rubble") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/09/international/middleeast/09MIDE.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/international/middleeast/10MIDE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/medics030902.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Israel-Arafats-Office.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/opinion/10FRIE.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2228-2002Mar9.html civil liberties and security Civil Liberties Take Back Seat to Safety http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000017740mar10.story conservative comment on the surveillance state we're building http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/fri/opinion/news_1e8twight.html compendium of state open records laws (obtaining government records should be a graduation requirement) http://www.reporterscommittee.org/tapping2001/index.cgi Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops on Web Searches http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html antennas for hacking 802.11b http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html UK Big Brother Awards http://www.privacyinternational.org/bigbrother/uk2002/ legal conflict over governments setting up religious monuments http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20020305.html intellectual property news from the file-sharing universe http://www.slyck.com/ more on the mandatory copy-protection bill http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.07.html#I Disney, the Copyright Term Extension Act, and Eldred v. Ashcroft http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub104abst.html scandal Enron, Fed Meetings Stir Investigation http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/2817262.htm Lawyers Work on Enron Disclosure Rules http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZJ5VI5JYC The Enronization of Social Security http://www.aflcio.org/enron/spotlight_ss.htm politics review of a book about the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/books/review/10ELLIST.html?pagewanted=print Jerry Falwell Calls for "Conservative Revolution" http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/2002/03/030802_Falwell_Letter.html more on the case against Charles Pickering http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=express&s=crowley030502 jargon watch: study the paragraph beginning "what this is about" (and marvel at an artistic spinner clucking at the spinning of politicians) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=105001740 jargon watch: dissolve an issue into fragments to exaggerate its effects (a common pattern is pretending that regulating X means banning it) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2207-2002Mar9.html a rant about the symptomatic Norah Vincent and some of her friends (have you seen Tammy Bruce's book? "bad logic" doesn't begin to describe it) http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/16/cover-lewis.shtml it's astounding how weak the evidence for "liberal bias" is (its purpose is to enmesh its victims in an endless cycle of bogus uproars) http://www.dailyhowler.com/h030802_1.shtml everything else The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing http://www.weatherhead.cwru.edu/sprouts/2001/010301.pdf survey of basic concepts for studying transnational social formations http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/cmd0106n.pdf Information Technologies in International Finance and the Role of Cities http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb74.html World City Actor-Networks http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb71.html Globalization, Innovation and Human Resources, Bangkok, 17-19 December 2002 http://www.som.ait.ac.th/cere/conference/SOMCall_for_Papers_comp.doc Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Bill Jones' Web Site Yanked After Flood of E-Mail (California sec'y of state, he lost big in the Republican primary for governor) http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/1738515p-1818349c.html "Microsoft has the same disdain for law that Enron did" http://www.sumeria.net/politics/enronms.html World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets http://www.worldbank.org/wdr/2001/fulltext/fulltext2002.htm detailed guides to Scientology's new buildings in Clearwater, Florida http://clearwater-scientology.theflaglandbase.org/ http://scientology.fso.org/ Chat on Design for Interactive Communities and Technologies, March 13th http://techport.umbc.edu/chat/ jargon watch: deceptive title and lead that plays up a stereotype (if you read closely, you see that feng shui was actually a minor issue) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/03/07/building-feng.htm meanwhile, Orange County has opened a feng shui branch in suburban Beijing (they no doubt heard about Orange County from the huge Chinese community there) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000017503mar09.story end
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