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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...

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...

Guantanamo Detainees Released…

http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid/03/30/16022146 Did anyone notice that eighteen detainees were sent home from Guantanamo? The NY Times and the Los Angeles Times decided it wasn’t newsworthy. Maybe it had something to do with the lack of sensationalism:...