Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Iraq Bush speech http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html Detailed Analysis of October 7th Speech by Bush on Iraq http://www.accuracy.org/bush/ Doubt Among US Officials: Some Say Administration Is Exaggerating Threat http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/4236333.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Iraq War Crimes Dossiers in Works http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dwarcrimes6oct06004454§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection "why America's intelligence agencies just can't seem to get along" (the bigger conflict is between the intelligence agencies and the party line) http://www.msnbc.com/news/817647.asp interview with a German expert on human rights in Iraq http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=215930 quotes from J. William Fulbright on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution http://www.presentdanger.org/commentary/2002/0209arrogance.html US Misuse of the United Nations http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=19185 Iraqi letter to the UN claiming to oppose terrorism http://daccess-ods.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N02/586/28/PDF/N0258628.pdf?OpenElement information on Iraq http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/iraq.htm more bias at the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45771-2002Oct4?language=printer newspaper's readers want more war debate http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/columns/ombudsman/story/4687326p-5704731c.html armies of pundits attacking Gore for his Iraq dissent (which would be fine (a) if they made sense, and (b) Gore had pundit defenders) http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/100802a.html http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh100802.shtml liberals will keep losing until they answer some basic questions (such as: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/opinion/06FRIE.html?pagewanted=print war "research and facts about biological weapons and biotechnology" http://www.sunshine-project.org/ review of a book on the decline of Islamism http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n14/print/hard01_.html article about outbreaks of smallpox http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n17/print/penn01_.html US "Has Nuclear Hit List" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/1864173.stm US Solidiers Get Talking Translators http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/10/06/handheld.translator.ap/ The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1006/cuba.htm civil liberties and security study the "evidence" presented for denouncing a college student as a terrorist (and then jumping immediately to vast, ugly generalizations about campuses) http://www.campus-watch.org/pf.php?id=195 protesters in Oregon kept behind a fence as Bush spoke to supporters http://www.buckleyforcongress.com/News.asp?NewsID=16 mass arrest of innocent people at American political demonstrations (this same tactic has become routine throughout the country) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42867-2002Oct4?language=printer Armey Seeks Provision in Bill to Punish Hometown Paper http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56456-2002Oct7?language=printer article about abuse of automatic toll collection records (this is the first such article I've seen) http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-toll07.html more on the fingerprinting of shoppers in Colorado http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den/news/stories/news-169808620021002-081058.html similar program in Texas http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/3976347.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp details on the Belgian ID card (important because of the precedent it would set across Europe) http://www.ubizen.com/c_about_us/2_public_relations/2002/020927_e.html http://www.rijksregister.fgov.be/rrn_fr/cccie/CDCFABRICATIONCID__def_F100402.pdf testimony against the Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2002, HR 4678 (it doesn't protect consumer privacy at all) http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/hr4678testimony_92402.html http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.4678: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html United States Commission on International Religious Freedom http://www.uscirf.gov/prPages/pr0137.php3?scale=1024&SID=5417c52cc1981eff191b80659cec5c59 Nigerian Militias Wield Power Through Intimidation http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/international/africa/06NIGE.html?pagewanted=print US Trails Virginia Muslim Money, Ties http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52054-2002Oct6?language=printer Report Calls for Plan of Sharing Data to Prevent Terror (sharing data is harder than it sounds -- does anyone have a URL for this?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/national/07HOME.html?pagewanted=print Law Bars a National System for Tracing Bullets and Shells (bullets have more rights than people) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/national/07GUNS.html?pagewanted=print Microsoft: Users Must Pay for Security (I'm sorry I called them despicable -- I couldn't think of a stronger word) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/cgi-bin/uk/printerfriendly.cgi?id=2123526&tid=269 politics hilarious development in the New Jersey ballot controversy (read this, then pity the people who are raging as the radio tells them to) http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0201.html#100602137am http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0201.html#1004021236am Republican brief to the Supreme Court in the New Jersey ballot dispute (the Supreme Court declined to hear it without comment) http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/torricelli/frstrnjusct100302rq.pdf http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128695126 Governor Jeb Plays Rough http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/06/news_pf/Columns/The_governor_plays_ro.shtml http://www.floridacapitalnews.com/campaign/stories/1003classsize.htm WSJ mocks the Wash. Post for mentioning the diversity of the sniper's victims (notice the headline on the piece, falsely insinuating anti-white male bias) http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110002386 Massive Salmon Kill Stokes Water-Management Conflict in California http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51795-2002Oct6?language=printer corruption Ex-Official of WorldCom Pleads Guilty to Fraud ("following orders that originated 'at the highest levels' of the company") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/business/08TELE.html?pagewanted=print http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128699990 shut WorldCom down http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/opinion/08SIDA.html?pagewanted=print Financial Oversight of Enron http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/enron/senenron100702rpt.pdf http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1606260 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51753-2002Oct6?language=printer investigating Enron's bankers http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128692481 accounting industry trying to undermine new accounting standards board http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/opinion/08KRUG.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/business/01ACCO.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/business/04ACCO.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/business/08SEC.html?pagewanted=print intellectual property papers relating to open source software (in legal, organizational, and economic directions, respectively) http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/shah.pdf http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/neff-stark.pdf http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/osorio.pdf more on shrinkwrap licenses to prevent reverse engineering of software http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128694823 documentary about Linux http://www.revolution-os.com/ full set of documents in the Eldred copyright-extension case (scroll down) http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/docket/2002/october.html Alternative Weeklies Divide Turf (how is this market-dividing deal legal?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/business/media/07PAPE.html?pagewanted=print everything else some media are calling the west coast dock lockout a "strike" http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1605458 Report: Doctors Must Advise Automakers on Emergency Response Systems http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=562&u=/ap/20021007/ap_on_hi_te/emergency_technologies_1&printer=1 Global Crash Fears as German Bank Sinks (uh, what's going on with this?) http://www.observer.co.uk/economy/story/0,1598,805683,00.html Man Leads Machine in Chess Duel (first I'd heard of this -- does anyone have details?) http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992892 radio stories about the search for the origin of the burrito (1998) (search for "burrito" in each page to find the audio clip) http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980702.atc.html http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980717.atc.html http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980903.atc.html http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980731.atc.html http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980812.atc.html "wassup with CNN putting hip-hop phrases into its on-screen graphics?" http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/business/media/07CNN.html?pagewanted=print what happens when you throw a big chunk of sodium into a lake (don't try this at home) http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/ end
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