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kerry is so very...
"Roll Call's annual list of the 50 richest Members of Congress"
deans list
"Vice President Dick Cheney has thrown down the gauntlet. He has refused to give the General Accounting Office the very limited information they have requested about the work of his energy task force. (GAO, created in 1921 during the Harding Administration, has from its inception been an independent and nonpartisan agency of the Congress, charged with studying the programs and expenditures of the federal government.)"
hows 'bout now?
"Not only is the Friday-night "Now" far less ambitious than Mitchell first envisioned but the chaotic process by which it got on the air has alienated some public affairs producers and public TV stations--including Washington's WETA, New York's WNET and Boston's WGBH--whose leaders believe their ideas were shoved aside."
rocket from the...
cryptome
copvcia
my kingdom for a source
"Just off the path stands a massive stone gate that once marked the entrance to the city. A sign placed in front of it by Israeli tourist authorities reads "Solomonic gate, 970-930 B.C." Ussishkin looks at it and laughs. "This is nonsense, utter nonsense," he tells a visitor. "The gate is from 200 years later. Solomon must be turning in his grave." For the past several years, Ussishkin, along with fellow Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein and Near Eastern historian Baruch Halpern of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, has been co-directing an extensive dig at Megiddo. And some of the findings have set off a battle among archaeologists working in Israel. At issue is whether the biblical picture of a major Israelite state in Palestine, founded by King David and greatly expanded by Solomon, reflects the historical reality of Israelite settlement in this region."
he aint heavy
talking points photo flack at flak.
close shave
"Live chickens slaughtered during opera"
hard drives
"i love it when you reformat my discs."
professional athletes always wanting more
"Although at least eight players from both teams said they didn't know about the $100,000 Super Bowl fine, they were happy to find out that they hadn't violated the rule. All but St. Louis Rams wide receiver Az-Zahir Hakim said the cost of the fine should deter any player from wearing an unlicensed hat in the future."
"I'll wear some company's hat as long as they pay my fine," Hakim said. "Plus a little bit more, of course."
pentangle
the connection radio show talks up shifting focus at the pentagon (and lots of cash) for new expensive toys.
selling short
harvard university (and its $20 billion endowment) may have benefited from insider knowledge involving enron.
roll out the lawsuit
'lets roll' now a matter of litigation. makes you feel good.
inuition
atanarjuat
kurzweilding
ray kurzweil -- accelerating intelligence
frankie bones
"The Chairman of the Carlyle Group, Frank Carlucci, was not only a former Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, but a Deputy Director of the CIA during the Carter Administration. In fact, Carlucci's career in Washington provides some insight into the intersection between foreign and domestic policy in the Cold War years. Moreover, Carlucci's particular trajectory through the government and into private industry reveals much about the meaning and influence of the military-industrial complex in the past and continuing policies of the United States at home and abroad."
more and moore
"Today silicon is king. But if computers are going to keep up with Moore's law, they'll need something better."
developing news
sci dev net
get your war on
"Geraldo had to go all the way to Afghanistan to get lost in the "fog of war," and look how much that little episode cost all of us. If the self-hating self-promoter had really wanted to learn about confusion, at a more reasonable cost, he could have just stayed home and read the war blogs."
on wax
download this -- bootylicious v. smells like teenspirit
disruption
"What can all companies take away from your study of the newspaper industry and its response to the Internet challenge?
Again, disruption creates net total growth. As I work with so many companies responding to disruptive technology, their overwhelming response is to focus on the potential losses created by disruption. In fact, the time from when a disruptive technology initially emerges to the time it eventually attacks an established market can be quite substantial. In the mainframe computer example, minicomputers were launched in 1967, and even though unit sales quickly passed mainframe unit sales, dollar sales did not eclipse mainframe sales until the late 1980s. Mainframe dollar sales did not have double year declines until the early 1990s. Thus, both markets continued to grow for some time after the initial emergence of the disruptive technology."
zooted
"Carcass feeding, like other forms of enrichment, represents a change of philosophy for zoos, requiring keepers to give up some control so their animals can have more. Some Folsom City Zoo animals refuse to go inside at night while feeding on a carcass. Cats sometimes scuffle over meat, so far without injury. After gorging, animals shun their zoo diet for a few days."
shine on
sparklehorse live from kcrw
sorosport
"The billionaire financier George Soros was host of a party with Klaus Schwab, the Swiss business professor who created and rules over the World Economic Forum, on Wednesday in honor of "social entrepreneurs" — that's philanthropists, not climbers. When told of the Elton John extravaganza — seated dinner and a serenade by Sir Elton — his eyes widened in disbelief.
"I wasn't invited," Mr. Soros said. "Then again, the traffic is so bad I don't want to go anywhere."
spy games
"WASHINGTON -- Salt Lake City, which will host the Olympics next week, was the target of "meticulous" surveillance by Osama bin Laden's spies, according to a top U.S. intelligence official."
layed out
"As the General Accounting Office prepares to go to court to force Vice President Cheney to turn over to Congress an account of his secret meetings with energy industry executives, an interview with FRONTLINE last May shows Lay acknowledging that he told Cheney about Enron's advice regarding the government's new energy program. In the interview by journalist Lowell Bergman to be broadcast on NOW WITH BILL MOYERS tonight at 9:00 on PBS, Lay claims that he was unaware that he was the only CEO of a major electric energy company to confer privately with the Vice President as he formulated his national energy strategy."
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