Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: Charles Webster, Born on the 24th of July war "Sharon is obliterating the Palestinian Authority" http://www.msnbc.com/news/735254.asp an Israeli's war diary http://talg.blogspot.com/ Palestine Chronicle http://palestinechronicle.com/ The Danger in Lebanon http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23409-2002Apr10.html Israel and Occupied Territories: Joint Statement of Amnesty et al http://www.amnesty-usa.org/news/2002/israel04072002.html Amnesty Calls for Suspension of Weapons Transfers to Israel and Bombers http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2002/israel04092002.html Israel Runs Risks With Assault on Its "Deputy Sheriff" http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=357092002 jargon watch: "why the Europeans and Arabs hate America and Israel" (it's a formula: pick a symbol, X, and construct the strategy "they hate X") http://theweeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=1102&R=4FB822EC7 Why Isn't Burma on Bush's "Axis of Evil" List? http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0204.kurlantzick.html Improved US Accuracy Claimed in Afghan Air War http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/international/asia/09MISS.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security FOI Advocate http://foi.missouri.edu/newsletter/ Security Concerns Allegedly Force House to Limit Access to Documents http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/03/news0325a.html Action to Safeguard Information Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction http://www.fas.org/sgp/bush/wh031902.html Court Overturns Book Store Order http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/4-8-2002/200204081018283105.html http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=co&vol=2002sc%5c560&invol=1 Justice Department Refusing to Comply With Judge's Orders to Release Records http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16958-2002Apr8.html ID Cards for "Trusted Travelers" Run Into Some Thorny Questions http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/09/technology/09PASS.html Australian Terrorism Bill "Worst Legislation Ever Seen" http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/04/09/1017206318512.html Somali Grocers Lose Right to Use Food Stamps (extremely Ashcroftian) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/65785_usda09.shtml politics Widening the Enron Net http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZA6MA3TZC Army Secretary White -- It Gets Worse http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=borosage New Democratic Idea: Freeze Tax Cuts Just For Richest 2 Percent (they can't do it because they don't have five dozen pundits howling for it) http://www.rollcall.com/pages/columns/kondracke/ jargon watch: lifetime achievement award for distortion of the English language http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=105001896 http://talkingpointsmemo.com/april0202.html#040802910pm everything else Google's beta News Search feature http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/04/08/020408opwinman.xml Columbia Newsblaster http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/ The World's First Higher Education Simulation and Learning Tool (there's a whole world of organizational simulation) http://www.virtual-u.org/ Sun is talking about moving to a peer-to-peer model (they talk good) http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1020705 New Breed Spam Filter Slashes Junk E-Mail (does anyone have URL's with details of this?) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992141 Web Surfers Brace For Pop-Up Downloads http://news.com.com/2100-1023-877568.html Windows Messenger "Trojan Update" http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24668.html Anti-Trustworthy Computing http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/09/trustworthy/print.html Improvising an Alternative Music Scene http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/20/music-duff.shtml Second-Level Digital Divide: Differences in People's Online Skills http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_4/hargittai/ "independent forum for IT and development issues" http://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/solaris jargon watch: knocking down a series of vaguely phrased straw men (this is a massive genre of public-relations writing, called "myths and facts") http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2001/easterly.html bill in Washington St. to make politicians take the high school graduation exam (now that's accountability) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/65657_wasl08.asp Ivan Illich: Writing on the Web http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich.html attempts to evaluate the "broken windows" theory of policing http://www-polisci.mit.edu/BR27.2/harcourt.html Restating the '90s http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_13/b3776001.htm Nuclear Plant Operators Missed Warning Signs http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-08-06.html Blackwater Event Current Status Information http://www.floridamarine.org/features/view_article.asp?id=15348 forget the political thugs: this is what Jesus was talking about http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22621-2002Apr9.html end
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