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...lawyers can churn out. When you share songs online, you broadcast an address that your ISP can link back to you. But right now there are just too many services--and way too many users--for either the industry or your ISP to monitor them all. Subpoenas will aim for obvious targets on the most popular services--like that Kazaa user, who had put more than 600 pirated tunes online. Those who download in moderation should easily escape the RIAA's wrath...
...chilling disclosure. Until now, attacks against U.S. outposts in Afghanistan have been haphazard. Bands of pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda guerrillas would engage in shoot-and-run assaults, such as lobbing a single wildly aimed mortar round and then hightailing it over the mountains. These strikes typically caused more nuisance than harm. Ghani's confession, however, suggested that for the first time anti-U.S. forces were creeping back from their hideouts across the Pakistani border and regrouping in large numbers. Their aim is to pour heavy fire on the Americans, forcing them to retreat from their isolated bases...
...serve largely as a mere chronicle of events,” they wrote in 1923, is “an aim which is very estimable in itself but totally different from that which The Crimson believes to be the true end of university journalism...
...weight-loss efforts, however, show long-term success. So a new business is building for mainstream firms that aim to make a profit by accommodating XXXL Americans and making their lives easier rather than trying to change them. "I'm not handicapped by my body," asserts Elizabeth Fisher, 42, a 350-lb. computer programmer in Baton Rouge, La., who made headlines when she tried (and failed) to force Honda to provide her with seat-belt extenders for her new Odyssey. "I'm handicapped by stuff that's too small." That situation is beginning to change as more companies modify their...
...captors kill him? The Wall Street Journal, which last week published an investigation into the murder of its South Asia bureau chief, quotes Saeed telling investigators that "he was falling into my trap so easily, so I thought, 'I might as well do it.'" Saeed's aim, writes the Journal, was to "strike a blow against the U.S. and embarrass Pakistan's government...