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Few Takers On CD Price Fixing Rebates..

Few Takers for CD Settlement Cash By Associated Press Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57111,00.html 09:15 AM Jan. 07, 2003 PT OLYMPIA, Washington — Suppose someone was handing out $20 bills and almost nobody wanted one? That’s...

The I in Internet..

I have long been an advocate of making the “i” lower case in “internet”. To capitalize it, as Joseph Turow insists, is to imply that it is a place, thing, or brand; which can be controlled, owned or managed. It’s not. In fact, I would...

Veni, Vici, Vidi: Latin Lives On..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,580910,00.html Veni, vidi, vici: how Latin lives on Latin has survived the fall of empire, the rise of the vernacular and the incomprehension of generations of schoolchildren. In this exclusive online essay from the...

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam United by Common Threads..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,864994,00.html More a family falling out than a clash of civilisations Many intricate links bind Christianity, Judaism and Islam William Dalrymple Tuesday December 24, 2002 The Guardian In late December, the plains of...

Joe Strummer, Clash, Dies at 50

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,865018,00.html Punk’s rebel with a cause dies at 50 Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent Tuesday December 24, 2002 The Guardian Joe Strummer “Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world And ends up...