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"Amy Fisher and Tonya Harding will box on Fox in a one-hour March 13 special (9 p.m. ET/PT). The three-fight card — When Celebrities Attack, perhaps? — also features a battle of the former network stars, as The Partridge Family's Danny Bonaduce dukes it out with The Brady Bunch's Barry Williams for three two-minute rounds. A yet-to-be-announced bout also is planned."
late news
"So if that WSJ editorial writer who invoked "evil" had been honest, he might have written, "it may well be that Danny Pearl was killed because his murderers held him responsible for positions on the Middle East conflict and on Islam oft expressed in these editorial pages. If so, then he died for principles that we honor and will always uphold", or something of that sort, while simultaneously emphasizing that reporters are not editorial writers and that Pearl bore no responsibility for the editorials."
responsible broadcasting
"Scripps said that under its "Democracy 2002" initiative, its nine network-affiliated TV stations will provide five minutes of free airtime to candidates nightly between 5 p.m. and 11:35 p.m. in the 30 days preceding this year's general elections. The stations also will provide free airtime as needed during the 30 days preceding primary elections."
feeling chipper
"WASHINGTON (AP) - A Florida technology company is poised to ask the government for permission to market a first-ever computer ID chip that could be embedded beneath a person's skin."
crumby drawings
The Religious Experience of Philip K Dick
bioware fair
"But it's not just the research data itself that is at the center of the tug of war between corporations and scientists. When working with data as complex and vast as the human genome, the software tools necessary to manipulate that data are as important as the genetic code itself. A whole new science of "bioinformatics" -- a flowering of software and hardware explicitly designed to analyze genomic information at blisteringly fast speeds -- has arisen, operating at the intersection of computers and biology."
liberty treats
"LibertarianParty runs provocative anti-War on Drugs newspaper ads"
delay game
"The previously undisclosed connection between DeLay and Enron offers a glimpse into how the Texas lawmaker and the corporate giant combined forces behind closed doors to deliver a bare-knuckled political punch aimed at breaking a legislative logjam frustrating efforts to deregulate the $300 billion-a-year electricity market, a top goal of both Enron and DeLay."
the gimme fund
"He had a marvelous, secret command center built for $13 million and 27 stories up at Seven World Trade Center. That center was high enough in the sky to fly when the attack hit. Giuliani staggered around looking for a place to become the boss. He called on fire commissioner Von Essen to leave the firefighters and come walking with him. High over the buildings a police helicopter was calling down that the towers were going to collapse as sure as the smoke coming out of them. Their calls fell on no ears. The firefighters were not equipped with radios for an emergency such as this. In fact, their communications were poor nearly everywhere. The fault was with Giuliani and Von Essen. Three hundred and forty three firefighters died. Most of them died because they didn't get out of the building because they couldn't hear anybody signal them in time."
hmm...you think?
"Is Disinformation Office Really Closing?
Remember the Pentagon's new we-can-hoodwink-the-world propaganda office? It seems to be toast:
"The Pentagon may eliminate a new office intended to influence public opinion and policy makers overseas, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today," the New York Times reports. "Proposals from the new agency, the Office of Strategic Influence, have caused an uproar in Congress and elsewhere in the government.
"Its director, Brig. Gen. Simon P. Worden of the Air Force, has proposed that the office coordinate activities ranging from public press releases to secret 'information warfare' in friendly as well as unfriendly countries, military officials said. In the past, such secret operations included the spreading of inaccurate or misleading information.
"Mr. Rumsfeld . . . said today that the disclosures about the office's potential activities may have doomed its credibility."
Maybe this is the ultimate disinformation plot – to say you're closing the office and then secretly keep it open?"
via media notes