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Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003

over well

"Over the past 15 years, with the acceleration of globalisation, this fourth estate has been stripped of its potential, and has gradually ceased to function as a counterpower. This is shockingly apparent when you look closely at the realities of globalisation. A new type of capitalism is on the rise, not just industrial, but financial, based on speculation. We are witnessing a clash between the market and the state, the public services and the private sector, the individual and society, the personal and the collective, egoism and solidarity."

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Saturday, Oct 18, 2003

potterville

"TULE RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- Local, state and federal law enforcement officials on Monday finished cutting down a marijuana garden worth an estimated $289 million that agents discovered last week in a remote location along steep hills here.
"This is perhaps the largest garden in the state this year, if not in history," said Tulare County sheriff's Lt. Donna Perry.

When agents finished counting about 4 p.m. Monday, they had cut down 72,321 plants. The discovery nearly doubled the total number seized in the county so far this year."

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Monday, Oct 13, 2003

rush to judgement

"Limbaugh’s own mother remarked on his somewhat passive-aggressive reticence as a child. Little Rush was “very quiet,” his mother, Millie, told the Southeast Missourian, a newspaper. At Halloween, “he really didn’t care much for trick or treating. He would rather stay at home. I found he was upstairs and he’d have water balloons. Sometimes when the little children would leave, he would drop them down."

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his noam is chomsky

"Dominance and Its Dilemmas : The Bush administration’s Imperial Grand Strategy"

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storyboarding

some of esquires best stories in their 70 year history. plus one.

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Friday, Oct 10, 2003

sign of the times

"Cambridge, Mass: Oct. 5, 2003…. “I came here to get an idea of how we can do this,” said Len Apcar, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Times on the Web. The “this” was the form we’re gathered in now, the modern weblog. Like hundreds of others, Apcar had come to Blogger.con, a conference featuring leading webloggers, front line troops, and assorted apostles, put on by the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. It ended today."

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Tuesday, Oct 07, 2003

blog bog

"Mr. President, I'm a blogger. I know blogs. Bloggers are friends of mine. And your site, sir, is not a blog."

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Monday, Sep 29, 2003

j blogging

The CyberJournalist List
The Internet's most complete directory of J-Blogs (aka Journalists' Weblogs)

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Thursday, Sep 25, 2003

crock star

that dixie chick is smokin sumpin again, methinks.

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Monday, Sep 22, 2003

deanosaur

1, 2 part dean profile in the boston globe.

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