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Entries from March 2007

N.Y. Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention

March 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

What we’ve sacrificed for Bush’s war: our civil liberties.
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Tags: surveillance · politics · u.s.+news

Mystery creator of anti-Clinton ad identified, linked to Obama camp - Los Angeles Times

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

A Blue State Digital employee confessed, just before being outed by Huffington. Fascinating. I reckon he won’t go begging for work this election cycle.
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Tags: obama · media · politics · clinton · u.s.+news

Brain Injury Said to Affect Moral Choices

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Very interesting… scientists are beginning to identify the organic basis for some of our moral and emotional responses.
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Tags: science

Edwards and Wife Plan News Conference

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Early in the day, associates of Mr. Edwards said they had no reason to believe the check-up was anything to worry about, but late Wednesday evening two friends said they believed the news was bad.
After the campaign announced its intention to hold the news conference on Thursday, concern quickly spread among former and current aides […]

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Tags: politics · edwards · u.s.+news

Bush Clashes With Congress on Prosecutors

March 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

President Bush and Congress clashed Tuesday over an inquiry into the firing of federal prosecutors and appeared headed toward a constitutional showdown over demands from Capitol Hill for internal White House documents and testimony from top advisers to the president.
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Tags: politics · bush · u.s.+news · gonzales

Russia Gives Iran Ultimatum on Enrichment

March 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Russia has informed Iran that it will withhold nuclear fuel for Iran’s nearly completed Bushehr power plant unless Iran suspends its uranium enrichment as demanded by the United Nations Security Council, European, American and Iranian officials say.
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Tags: russia · iran · world

Write a Check? The New Philanthropist Goes Further

March 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

NYT on the emerging trend of engaged philanthropy.
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Tags: nonprofit · philanthropy

Make Way for Copyright Chaos

March 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Lawrence Lessig weighs in on Viacom vs. YouTube.
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Tags: grokster · dmca · lawrence+lessig · legal · scotus · lessig · copyright · tech · opinion · youtube · google · law · supreme+court · business