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How Books Have Shaped Bush…

The New York Times April 5, 2003 How Books Have Shaped U.S. Policy By MICHIKO KAKUTANI President Bush has never been known as a bookworm. An instinctive politician who goes with his gut, he has usually left the heavy reading in the family to his wife, Laura, a former...

Fashion Outbreak…

Strangely, no one in California that I’ve talked to this week really seems to care about SARS. No surprise, since there have been few cases and even fewer deaths, and since travel in the US is so widespread there are few clusters of cases, thus no real outbreak...

Selling to Saddam..

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/investing/articles/0,15114,438836,00.html FIRST: MILITARY SUPPLIES Who Sold What to Iraq? The U.S. aims to hunt down companies that supplied Saddam. FORTUNE Sunday, March 30, 2003 By Nelson D. Schwartz When the first wave of American...

Grey-Market Apple Clone…

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,58310,00.html Pizza Box or IMac? No, an IBox By Leander Kahney Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,58310,00.html 02:00 AM Apr. 02, 2003 PT A Minnesota man has plans to launch his own Macintosh-manufacturing...

Fundamentalism…

It seems that somebody forwarded a FOIB message from me to a bunch of Neo-Conservatives and so for the last few days I have been besieged by endless reams of all-too-familiar drivel from Pro-Bush supporters. Frankly, I’m not willing to spend much effort to...

NBC Sacks Peter Arnett for Giving Iraqi TV Interview

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/2903503.stm US network sacks top journalist US broadcaster NBC has sacked celebrated journalist Peter Arnett after he gave an interview on Iraqi television saying the US-led coalition’s initial war plan had...