Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war Problems With Iraq Invasion Plans http://www.msnbc.com/news/780434.asp http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,755059,00.html Rumsfeld trying to reduce Congressional oversight ("the proposals are the tip of the iceberg") http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Ddefense15jul15 Memorial Park Plays Large Part in Preliminary Trade Center Plans http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/nyregion/16REBU.html?pagewanted=print http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10136-2002Jul15?language=printer At Morgue, Ceaselessly Sifting 9/11 Traces http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/nyregion/14EXAM.html?pagewanted=print civil liberties and security a wide-ranging rant against the war on terrorism http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,754972,00.html Justice Department to Attempt Shutdown of 9/11 Evidence (I have no idea) http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00087.htm jargon watch: "journalist is detained because he questioned US Saudi policies" (WSJ editors resort to tendentious language even when they're in the right) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/?id=110001991 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63413-2002Jul12.html http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document071502.asp In China's West, Ethnic Strife Becomes "Terrorism" (not to mention "evil") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4215-2002Jul14.html former Gap executive freaking about suits against multinationals in US courts (did you know that Unocal is on trial for human rights abuses in Burma?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63990-2002Jul13?language=printer Will California Voters Opt for "Opting In"? http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2002/nf20020711_5915.htm?c=bwinsiderjul12&n=link7&t=email Linux Attacks on the Rise? (now we'll see whether open source systems really are easier to defend) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26177.html the criminal class Harken Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge (but all this was reported during the campaign -- it's only new to the Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1447-2002Jul13.html so maybe their logic-challenged editorial about Harken is no longer operational (they argued in 1994 for investigating Whitewater though it was clearly bogus) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58393-2002Jul11.html Secrecy Surrounds Bush Stock Deal (where are all the jokers who thought it crucial to investigate Whitewater?) http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/07/12/harken/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9841-2002Jul15?language=printer Bush's pattern of inside dealing began in Texas (and his inventive budget accounting has been Harkenesque from day one) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/opinion/16KRUG.html must-hear interview with James Doty on the SEC "investigation" of Bush (in which Bob Edwards tries not to laugh as he pulls out a letter) http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=07/12/2002&PrgID=3 Why Investigation of Bush's Stock Sale "Just Didn't Pan Out" (and the claims we hear that Whitewater hadn't been investigated were false) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dharken14jul14 Bush Signed Stock "Lockup" Letter http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&u=/ap/20020716/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_harken_2&printer=1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10786-2002Jul16.html Right on the Money: The George W. Bush Profile http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=431&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0&Task=Print http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=434&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0&Task=Print jargon watch: "only an hour and a half after the speech did the market decline" (standard device: break an association by putting something else in the middle) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63482-2002Jul12?language=printer jargon watch: "it's more about the policies than anything about the president" (a very basic example of the PR strategy of breaking and building associations) http://www.salon.com/politics/wire/2002/07/11/loans/ "at some point, Cheney is going to have to address these accounting questions" http://www.msnbc.com/news/780130.asp http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,320735,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10129-2002Jul15?language=printer http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer16jul16.column corporate crime task force is led by a past director of a corporate criminal http://www.canada.com/hamilton/story.asp?id={264BC6B1-135F-46CF-8DB6-BBC02B9CD829} Broad Skepticism Over Accounting Punishes the Stock Price of AOL (you may recall that AOL was famous for its accounting from its earliest days) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15AOL.html?pagewanted=print John McCain's speech on corporate criminals http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/07/12/mccain/print.html adjusting business incentives to prevent future scandals http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/449zsyik.asp An Idea Gone Haywire: Linking Executive Pay to Sales (it isn't just democracy that can get hammered by unanticipated consequences) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/business/yourmoney/14WATC.html?pagewanted=print Stocks' Slide Is Playing Havoc With Older Americans' Dreams (to this day I hear financial "experts" telling people to buy stocks) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/business/14INVE.html?pagewanted=print "1/3 of all profits in the boom years was the result of one accounting gimmick" http://www.msnbc.com/news/780027.asp politics Ottawa Says Bush "Texans" Tried to Bully G8 Host http://www.nationalpost.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=5CC39E73-A239-4A2E-9F5E-AA00AA900FF5 White House Chooses a Friday Afternoon to Project a Higher Budget Deficit (everyone knows the game: they're causing deficits as a political strategy) http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/07/12/budget.deficit/ jargon watch: "everything, everywhere is George W's fault" (the stupidity throughout this column isn't random; it's minutely cultivated) http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\\Commentary\\archive\\200207\\COM20020710b.html jargon watch: J. C. Watts' very sad comments on "tokenism" (don't face the truth; harp misleadingly about what you'll get "accused of") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4268-2002Jul14.html jargon watch: "liberals will do what it takes to keep control of the high court" (projection: to justify taking control, falsely allege the others have control) http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_3_why_the_battle.html jargon watch: what counts as a negative review of Ann Coulter's demented book (jargon afurl, he praises her calumnies but would fine-tune her politics) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26274-2002Jul4.html Pat Oliphant's editorial cartoons http://www.ucomics.com/patoliphant/ intellectual property Linker vs. Lawyer: The Deep Link Controversy Continues http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0716-linkcon.html economically illiterate article about concert tickets (prices up 11%, unit sales down only 3% -- bad for fans, but for the industry?) http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20020714_252.html new public interest group on intellectual property http://www.publicknowledge.org/ TCPA and Palladium: Sony Inside http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/9/17842/90350 everything else new cyberculture magazine http://www.21cmagazine.com/ Networking Knowledge for Information Societies: Institutions and Intervention http://www.comunica.org/netknowledge/ Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance http://wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC_frontmatter.pdf NSF Middleware Initiative http://www.nsf-middleware.org/ what carbon nanotubes can do http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/science/physical/16NANO.html?pagewanted=print Visiting Professorship in e-Democracy at the Oxford Internet Institute http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/demprof.shtml Search Engines Not Differentiating Ads From Results ("Google was the only engine that appeared to meet all the FTC criteria") http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/07/12/online-search-engines.htm "Yahoo's e-mail has long been replacing complete words in mail to its users" http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/ Stanford President Plugs Campus Into World of VCs and Start-Ups http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3647476.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp game site's review of the Army's online game http://pc.ign.com/articles/361/361145p1.html AOpen Announces AX4B-533Tube: World's First Vacuum Tube Motherboard (now this is something I'd never have heard of otherwise) http://club.aopen.com.tw/News/News_showAnswer_New.asp?RecNo=713&Language=English http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm http://english.aopen.com.tw/products/mb/Pax4b-533tube1.htm design consequences of fuel cells for the rest of the car ("the industry's sincerity in developing fuel-cell cars is hard to determine") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/15/technology/15NECO.html?pagewanted=print Switzerland confronts the conflict between competition and efficiency (and we thought they were the same) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/13/international/europe/13SWIS.html?pagewanted=print The Mystery of the Forgotten US Flag Revealed http://ddi.digital.net/~kenaston/Patr/USCivFlag.html the Washington Post's paganism is finally in the open http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/07/tapped-s-07-15.html#305pmzeus A Pesticide-Parasite Role in Frogs' Deformities? ("if common pesticides compromise the immune system of a vertebrate ...") http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4387-2002Jul14.html end
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