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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will reportedly
announce an amnesty program next week aimed at individuals willing to
admit having downloaded and shared copyrighted music files. Those who
sign the amnesty form–admitting their past activity and promising to
delete copyrighted files and not to engage in future illegal file
trading–would be shielded from prosecution by the RIAA. The [...]

Cruel
and Unusual: a Benefit Exhibition for the West Memphis Three
September 6 - September 20, 2003
How did Arkansas’s West
Memphis Three go from death row [...]

Is That a Match?
Rosie O’Donnell (left), producer of the upcoming
Broadway musical "Taboo," and Boy George, the show’s star,
lyricist, and composer, meet the press at The Time Hotel in New York
on September
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U.S. illusionist David Blaine embarks on 44 days of starvation
and solitary confinement in a glass box hung from a crane by the river
Thames in London September 5, 2003. Blaine will go without food and will
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The other night I lay in bed, watching the Sox melt down in
Seattle, giving up yet another lead late in the game.  "This is
it," I said aloud, "I can’t take it anymore. If the Red Sox
[...]

Wine labels depicting Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Napolean and
Che are causing quite a stir in Europe.

BERLIN - Germany has complained to Italy about a winery
that labels its bottles with portraits of Adolf Hitler, the Justice Ministry
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I can remember when a "big" football player weighed over
200 lbs.  For awhile now 300 lbers are de rigeur (there
are more than 300 of them).  Pictured at left is Aaron
Gibson, [...]

In his ever expanding drive towards global dominance, Bill Gates and Microsoft are constantly searching for new worlds to conquer. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Microsoft has signed an agreement to design, fund and construct a revolutionary new high school, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Public Schools, from the ground up, including everything [...]

The United States and 10 of its allies wil press on with plans to intercept vessels suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction despite a warning from China that the move could be illegal.
The 11 countries have agreed to board ships, force planes to land and inspect cargoes if they suspect that chemical, [...]

I used to be pretty good at using one of these things, at least when I was
drawing staircases or Mayan pyramids. There always seemed to be one in
the car when the P’s loaded up for [...]