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28351 Carnivore gets ravenous -- rank: 1000

At 12:15 PM -0400 5/29/02, Computerworld_Daily at Computerworld.com wrote: >FBI documents expose Carnivore glitch in bin Laden probe > >The FBI's Carnivore surveillance tool apparently intercepted e-mail >messages from people who were not the target of an agency investigation, >a privacy watchdog group said. > >http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0%2C10801%2C71518%2C00.html?nlid=AM

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Date:	Wed May 29 12:02:38 PDT 2002

28352 State of the art -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The novel as an art form tends to cease to be compelling in most >societies once they solve the "marriage question" in social reality >(if not in ideology) via abortion, contraception, no-fault divorce, >women's education, & women's de facto economic independence from men. > >You can write a great novel that is not about "female troubles" (= >women's troubles as well as anxieties of men troubled by women), but >such a novel ...

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Date:	Wed May 29 11:58:10 PDT 2002

28353 Fwd: Stay Free! | July 28 -- rank: 1000

From: Carrie McLaren <carrie at stayfreemagazine.org> Subject: Stay Free! | July 28 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 20:46:28 -0500 CALLING ALL ARTISTS, ROCKERS, AND CREATIVE TYPES Stay Free! is organizing an exhibit, to take place this fall in New York, of works that appropriate copyrighted or trademarked material. The event shall be known as "Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age." Perhaps the biggest name to throw out here is Negativland (who will be participating, yes ...

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Date:	Tue May 28 18:11:28 PDT 2002

28354 Vidal interview - available now! -- rank: 1000

Thanks to Jordan Hayes, proprietor of Infothecary.com, I've been able to put up my interview with Gore Vidal. There's a very simple page with links to the sound files up at: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Vidal.html>. There aren't any links to this page on the site yet - I'm doing some major updating right now, but it's not quite ready. The interview is broken into 3 parts, and the files are in streaming MP3 format. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 28 15:18:39 PDT 2002

28355 Dynergy CEO out -- rank: 1000

[Interesting how the whole "market" power sector is collapsing in scandal and insolvency. But we must press on with electricity dereg anyway!] Dynegy's Chief Executive Quits Amid Investigation of Trades May 28, 2002 Filed at 8:59 a.m. ET HOUSTON (Reuters) - Dynegy Inc. (DYN.N) said on Tuesday that Chairman and Chief Executive Chuck Watson has resigned amid controversy over sham trades with CMS Energy Corp.-- whose own CEO quit for the same reason four days ago. CMS, a utility holding c ...

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Date:	Tue May 28 13:28:13 PDT 2002

28356 Terror Advisory Map for Summer Travel -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >http://www.nationallampoon.com/terrormap/terrormap.asp Who's Jenna Elfman? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 28 12:49:49 PDT 2002

28357 Vidal and Doug -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >just trying to help out chris (and others in the same boat) with the >translation software and space at pulp to post the MP3. if you don't >want or need it, no worries. I was just curious, and I'm probably not the only one. It's a big damn pain to do transcripts, and it'd be great if software did most of the job. But there are so many errors in one of Michael P's short emails (and he speaks slowly & clearly, unlike me) that I have my doubts. Is clos ...

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Date:	Tue May 28 11:42:34 PDT 2002

28358 Vidal and Doug -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >i have access to the software to do the transcripts. What kind of software does transcripts? Does it work better than Michael Perelman's voice recognition software? DZoug

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Date:	Tue May 28 10:32:36 PDT 2002

28359 "dangling a cigarette" -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Ahhhh I see. For some reason I'd got it into my head that the author of >the original piece was trying to insinuate that Hitchens was gay. He once was - flamboyantly so, according to some reports. But in his appearance before Nation staffers and friends after he'd dropped the dime on Blumenthal, he responded to Alexander Cockburn's rather homophobic characterization of him by saying "I haven't slept with a man since I left England." Doug

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Date:	Tue May 28 09:33:15 PDT 2002

28360 Bush to gut Title IX? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 28, 2002 Federal Government Considers Major Changes to Enforcement of Title IX By WELCH SUGGS The Bush administration is considering suspending or significantly revising federal regulations governing gender equity in sports, according to sources close to federal civil-rights agencies. An announcement could come as early as Wednesday, when the U.S. Department of Justice must file a response to a lawsuit filed against the Department of Education by t ...

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Date:	Tue May 28 09:14:42 PDT 2002

28361 the WTO hoax -- rank: 1000

May 28, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: mailto:representatives at theyesmen.org ANNOUNCEMENT OF WTO CLOSURE GOES FROM SYDNEY TO CANADA'S PARLIAMENT Latest in series of WTO pesterings by The Yes Men On Tuesday, May 21, a representative of the World Trade Organization announced the dissolution of his organization to a shocked but supportive Sydney audience ( http://theyesmen.org/tro/disband.rtf, http://theyesmen.org/tro/cpa.html ). He stated the WTO would reconstitute as a new organization ded ...

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Date:	Tue May 28 08:35:08 PDT 2002

28362 Toking up after 9-11 -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Substance abuse increases in New York City in >aftermath of September 11th >Survey results indicate that smoking and alcohol and >marijuana use increased among residents of Manhattan >during the five to eight weeks after the terrorist >attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC). >Almost one-third of the nearly 1,000 persons >interviewed reported an increased use of alcohol, >marijuana, or cigarettes following the September 11th >attacks. Curio ...

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Date:	Tue May 28 08:31:32 PDT 2002

28363 Berezovsky -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Buyer beware: This magazine is owned by Berezovsky. How's he doing these days? Still mighty? On the ropes? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 28 08:24:16 PDT 2002

28364 Indonesia question -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Of course, this is a guy who has been in Russia four years, covers Russian >media and doesn't speak Russian. Of how many western journalists in Russia is that true? I guess you don't need Russian if you just take dictation from the US (or Australian, or...) embassy, though. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 28 08:21:41 PDT 2002

28365 Vidal and Doug -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >Is there a transcript? I would love to get a look at it if there is -- I >don't have access to computer-audio stuff. I wish. Transcripts take a lot of time to do, and I ain't got the time. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 28 08:10:14 PDT 2002