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That the U.S. is pulling out of a major international conference comes as no surprise these days. It's the reason offered for Secretary of State Colin Powell's boycott of the U.N. conference on racism that's cause for alarm - concern that Israel and its ideology, Zionism, would be subjected to harsh criticism at the conference. Or as President Bush put it last week, the delegates were going to be "picking on Israel...
...home. The folks at Penney's say they meant no harm--they didn't even design the T, which had become popular in other stores first. But they yanked it from the shelves Aug. 8 after enraged missives poured in from home-schooling families, some of whom threatened a boycott...
...congressional Lothario dig himself deeper into shame by refusing to have any shame at all. We warned you that if you had any distaste left over from impeachment (which at least starred the President of the United States, and a great performer at that) to boycott the whole sham and rent a movie...
...After protests outside its San Jose headquarters and a vigorous "boycott Adobe" campaign, the company released a statement that said prosecuting Sklyarov was "not in the best interests" of the industry. Now Adobe says it did not ask the feds to arrest Sklyarov in the first place, but made a more general complaint against ElcomSoft. The U.S. Attorney's office will not comment on Adobe's role. Sklyarov's attorney believes the company has the outcome it wanted all along: to send a signal to ElcomSoft but end the protests...
...Indeed, the boycott is over. While Sklyarov will be arraigned on Aug. 23, most legal experts say the federal case against him will be tough to prove without Adobe's help. The charge filed by the government against Sklyarov is confusing enough: it is for "trafficking" software prohibited by the DMCA. This does not mean he went around selling it himself, but rather that Adobe was able to buy it through a third party--and his name was listed on that software's copyright page. Yes, that is as tenuous as it sounds. "I hope the government knows something...