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Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiss have already shaken the music industry to its roots with their Kazaa file-sharing software. Now Zennstrom, 37, and Friiss, 27, have turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system...
...officials say they are working to establish a court system that can prosecute the worst offenders from Saddam's regime. According to the plan, the tribunals will first try the 45 key Baathist leaders in custody, then move on to rank-and-file regime loyalists accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. But it could take years for such courts to bring former Baathist officials to justice. At a recent conference, Iraqi human-rights groups lashed out at a director of the reconciliation effort in Cambodia, where the process of trying members of Pol Pot's regime...
...year-old boy, walking with his aunt. He pulled up and shot the boy in the face. The boy's injury was minor, but the emotional trauma of having a gun fired in his face was not. His aunt went to the police and complained, but she did not file a written report - a frequent problem that renders anti-Roma attacks the most under-reported of any hate crime. The police found the man in a nearby park based on the woman's description. He was charged with inflicting bodily harm and illegal weapon possession...
...faculty and students at HLS seem to recognize the high stakes of the judicial decision, and their petition efforts encouraging Harvard to join the lawsuit should be applauded. Members of the Law School’s faculty have promised to file suit against the Pentagon; while this would be a momentous and significant step, such a suit ultimately cannot carry the weight that an official legal challenge from the University would...
Slater said he will return the documents to his Harvard site (blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings) if Diebold does not file suit against him within ten days of his counter-notice filing. After that time, the University cannot be held legally liable for the documents on Slater’s website, though Slater himself could potentially face litigation...