October 25, 2002 -
The Palladium Paradox - Insight, By David Weinberger, Why
we have everything to fear about the next operating system out of
Redmond. When Microsoft announced its entry into the “trusted computing”
arena in June, the requisite witticism within the IT industry was that
putting “Microsoft” next to “trusted” is an oxymoron. Four months later,
many smirks have disappeared as the plans progress and the true
significance of code-name Palladium becomes ever more clear...
October 22, 2002 -
Unabomber’s brother speaks out
- NBC NEWS, David
Kaczynski on the decision to
turn in a family member, David
Kaczynski, brother of convicted
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, says a
suspicious family may be afraid
to come forward because of fears
of the death penalty for a loved
one. David Kaczynski, the
brother of convicted Unabomber
Ted Kaczynski, spoke to NBC News
about the Washington, D.C.-area
sniper and the heartrending
difficulties facing a family
that believes a loved one might
be a killer. Here is a
transcript of the interview...
October 26, 2002 -
Conflict that vaulted him to
presidency is now his biggest
test - By Peter
Baker, THE WASHINGTON POST,
MOSCOW, He thought it would
be a quick little war, won in a
matter of weeks: just rub out
the bad guys in the outhouse, as
he put it. Three years later,
Vladimir Putin came face to face
with the lingering consequences
of the not-so-quick,
not-so-little war that vaulted
him to the presidency...
October 08,
2002 -
Casus
belli -
Has
America gone to war only when provoked? -
By David Greenberg, SLATE.COM, Oct. 8 — Americans are enamored with our
own goodness. We like to think of ourselves as peace-loving,
law-abiding, virtuous — a model to the world. “America has not started
a war in this century,” Newsweek proudly declared at the end of the
last century, summarizing 100 years of warfare and encapsulating our
belief in our purity. One reason that many people have qualms about the
looming invasion of Iraq — in which the United States intends to strike
first without an unambiguous casus belli — is that we imagine that we
go to war only when provoked. As we debate commencing hostilities, it’s
worth reviewing our reasons for waging war in the past, for our
retrospective judgments about those conflicts should influence how and
whether we go to war today...
October 09,
2002 -
Hunting a different kind of
killer - Experts say
gunman doesn’t fit patterns of
other slayers. By Patricia Davis
and Carol Morello, THE
WASHINGTON POST, WASHINGTON,
Most mass killers relish
watching their victims die and
leave some aspect of their
personality behind at the crime
scenes. They are motivated by
anger or revenge and kill people
or categories of people they
hold responsible for their
problems...
