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Wednesday, Feb 27, 2002

break his crown

"[Editor's Note: The following is a speech that Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman from Cleveland, Ohio, gave this past weekend at the University of Southern California. Rep. Kucinich is the leader of the Progressive Caucus and a longtime defender of free speech, civil liberties and international peace. This speech makes him the first member of the United States Congress to openly repudiate President Bush's war rationale.]"

dont cry for me

"It's already hard to be a whistle-blower. This incentive structure makes it even harder. One of the striking things about Enron is that no one came forward and blew the whistle on the company. (Sherron Watkins has been cast in the role, but all she really did is beg her boss to orchestrate an artful cover-up so she could continue to make lots of money.) Why will the people who work at the next Enron behave any differently?"

pettinest

my only problem with this story is that if somehow this effort by the saudis actually makes some progress in the middle east that ny times columnist thomas friedman will be given credit for initiating the talks. can you imagine what would happen to his already outsized ego if he could claim credit for bringing some resolution to the most troublesome spot on the globe?

please tell me this isnt happening

"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."

Tuesday, Feb 26, 2002

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"

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