Archive for August 24th, 2003

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US Crime Rate Lowest in Recorded History

WASHINGTON (AP) — Violent and property crimes dipped
in 2002 to their lowest levels since records started being compiled 30
years ago, and have dropped more than 50 percent in the last decade,
the [...]

IRS in Riyadh for Terrorist Audits

Its a tough time to be a Saudi. Under increasing pressure
to deal with the popular, virulent anti-Americanism which is proving
to be such a fecund petri dish of terrorism for Saudi youth with too
[...]

New Yorkers Hit the Roof

The
New York Times reports that when the temps climb in the Big Apple,
so
do New Yorkers - to the roofs.
They charge through [...]

Closer to Home - Cambridge Carnival

 

Meanwhile, closer to home, today is the Cambridge
Carribean Carnival.  This
morning, our regular weekend meeting of the "Just Don’t Suck" tennis club
was interrrupted by the syncopated cadences of steel drums and the flash
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US Official: Free Software is Unamerican

"I don’t even know how to begin this story, so stupid and extreme
it is."  So begins Lawrence Lessig in a relevatory article
on the US reaction to a World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) [...]


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