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: Ali Farka Toure, Niafunke war reports from Jenin http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,684203,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/02/world_jarrar0412.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41228-2002Apr12.html http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/ny-wojeni132666773apr13.story http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0413-02.htm http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020413_259.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0412-04.htm Prince Sultan Affirms Kingdom's Support of Palestinian Funds http://www.saudiembassy.net/press_release/statements/01-ST-0401-Palestine-aid.htm http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,684113,00.html http://www.mostnewyork.com/today/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-147384.asp radio call-in discussion with Noam Chomsky on the Middle East conflict http://www.realimpact.net/rihurl.ram?file=realimpact/wnyc/raotl/otl041102c.ra Festival Drops Film Focusing on Sharon http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026589apr14.story Better Late Than Never ("rocking back and forth, a little bit scared and a little bit scary") http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,227503,00.html two conservative spins on the Middle East http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0405-12.htm http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/115boxcf.asp Battle for the Holy Land http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/holy/ Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire http://bitterlemons.org/ Operation Anaconda Leaves Bitterness in Its Wake http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026583apr14.story US Companies Hired to Train Foreign Armies http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026555apr14.story British reporter dissing the US 10th Mountain Division http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=back&issue=2002-04-06&id=1738 Before Taliban: Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/edwards2.xml some items on the chamber of commerce coup in Venezuela, now apparently failed (I'm no big fan of Chavez, but he was democratically elected) http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0412-08.htm http://narconews.com/venezuelacoup1.html http://narconews.com/siegel1.html http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=4/13/02&Cat=13&Num=009 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opinion/_13SAT1.html Sheriff Featured on TV Police Program Killed http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026773apr14.story America and the Age of Genocide http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/books/review/14SECORT.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security dangerous growth in detention of "material witnesses" http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=gerstein042202 Not That Easy: Questions About Nationwide Identity Systems http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10346.html?eb_15 Ministry Gave Man's Identity to a Murderer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/13/nident13.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/04/13/ixhome.html Is the United States a Haven for Torturers? http://www.msnbc.com/news/738094.asp radio story about the prison industry lobbying for longer prison sentences http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/corrections/laws1.html James Madison and Religious Liberty http://www.heritage.org/library/execmemo/em729.html review of "Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US History" http://www.yale.edu/ypq/articles/oct97/oct97e.html the Chicago Tribune's privacy policy (if I read it right you can't opt out of their e-mail or personal info sharing) http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/site/chi-privacy.story Windows XP Search Assistant Silently Downloads Files http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24815.html politics George W. Bush: Statesman or Dog Trainer? (he thinks he's king) http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12844 World History and the Texan Mind of George W. Bush http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2002/04-06-02.shtml http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2002/04-07-02.shtml http://www.theglobalist.com/nor/richter/2002/04-08-02.shtml Tom Ridge's Non-Testimony: Another Nixon-Style Move by the Bush Administration http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020412.html Enron's Empire http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2279 environment jargon watch: "it's not scorched earth and it's not devastation ..." (breaking issues into vague phrases, then breaking and building associations) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026553apr14.story jargon watch: study all the quotes from the government spokesperson (who uses several techniques to dissolve the issue) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/politics/11CHEN.html jargon watch: "Markey is particularly upset that ..." (make the liberal sound emotional, put twisted words in his mouth, etc etc) http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200204\POL20020412c.html White House Ends Environmental Fellowship (part of a broad-based attack on inconvenient science) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/education/14STAR.html Massive Coral Bleaching Strikes the Great Barrier Reef http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992164 papers by Bruno Latour Shifting from the World of Science to That of Research http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/artpop/UP-74%20SCIENCE.html "Do You Believe in Reality?" http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/Articles/PANDORAGBCH.1.html To Modernize or to Ecologize? http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/Articles/73-7thcity.html On Interobjectivity http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/Articles/63-interobjectivity.htm everything else E-Mails Open Window on Wall Street (does anybody have a URL for the attorney general's affidavit?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34557-2002Apr11.html Compulsory Licensing That Would Make Microsoft Compete With Its Past Self http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020410_edlin.html long article on the birth of rap http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-000026786apr14.story article ragging on the Guggenheim Museum's would-be global empire (the thing is, it'd make sense if it weren't being run by a carnival barker) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/arts/design/14MUSC.html?pagewanted=all Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.imls.gov/ discussion group for the "perestroika" reform movement in political science (registration required) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perestroika_glasnost_warmhome/ books on the former Soviet Union http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020415&s=kotkin041502 free trade is good; it's the unlevel playing fields that kill (and the high-minded international organizations that impose them) http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,682079,00.html end
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