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...adoption. Rosie, it's not being gay that would make you a frightening parent Losers JOHN ASHCROFT Attorney General in trouble over student visas being sent to 9/11 hijackers. In his defense, they had nice extracurriculars and excellent essays RUSSELL CROWE Mr. Oscar's next film runs afoul of the Screen Actors Guild. Perhaps the film's title, Why Actors Make the Best Scabs, is the issue JERRY SPRINGER Bush says his talk show made terrorists think the U.S. was weak. Obviously they didn't see how far a midget hillbilly can throw a chair...
...energy monopoly. Its management was gutted, and most of its news staff jumped over to TV-6. Then the country's best news radio station, Ekho Moskvy, staved off a hostile takeover by Gazprom, largely thanks to popular support. But unruly journalists are not the only ones who run afoul of the law. On Christmas Day, after several unsuccessful attempts, the state was finally able to convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east. Putin denied any involvement in the case...
...territory, but they're usually too busy to care. Sklyarov's arrest changed all that. Since the DMCA makes it a criminal offense merely to make the tools that some hacker might use to crack security on a copyrighted document, hundreds of programmers suddenly feared they might also fall afoul of it. "I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time," says Evan Prodromou, one of the organizers of the Free Sklyarov campaign. "Interoperability, reverse engineering--this is our bread and butter...
...territory, but they're usually too busy to care. Sklyarov's arrest changed all that. Since the DMCA makes it a criminal offense merely to make the tools that some hacker might use to crack security on a copyrighted document, hundreds of programmers suddenly feared they might also fall afoul of it. "I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time," says Evan Prodromou, one of the organizers of the Free Sklyarov campaign. "Interoperability, reverse engineering--this is our bread and butter...
...radical decision Bush has recently made is to move full speed on a defense system that runs afoul of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which limits testing and deployment of new defensive systems. Critics say the rapid-fire tests that could bust the treaty are designed to do so; for some Bush advisers, getting rid of ABM is an end in itself...