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...Clinton's impeachment trial. In mid-to late 2002, as the Iraq war loomed, the MoveOn e-mail list doubled, to 1 million. Wes and Joan hooked up with Zack Exley, whose parody campaign 2000 website, GWBush.com caused candidate Bush to declare, "There ought to be some limits to freedom"; and Eli Pariser, 22, a New Yorker whose post-9/11 e-mail petition for peace was signed by 500,000 people worldwide. All four still work out of their homes, communicating by e-mail, instant messaging and a regular Tuesday conference call...
...uninitiated, the concept of free-lancing might evoke words like freedom and flexibility. But those in the trenches often employ a different F word. "I live in constant fear," says Alicia Nieva-Woodgate, a former public-relations executive in San Francisco, who had to kiss health insurance goodbye and these days is struggling just to pay the rent. For the past two years, this thirtysomething has been juggling as many as six free-lance projects at a time while taking on survival jobs like handing out Pepsi samples in Wal-Mart. "I'm barely scraping by," says Nieva-Woodgate...
...Serbia, which came to power in 2000 after ousting strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has been riven by infighting and two weeks ago called early elections after losing its parliamentary majority. The presidential ballot was ruled invalid due to low voter turnout - for the third time in just over a year. Freedom, for Some ZIMBABWE A Harare court released 52 activists two days after their arrests for taking part in demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe. A call by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions for a two-day strike to protest the arrests had elicited a lukewarm response. More than...
...finally quelled by rescinding his order and declaring this a nonsmoking flight. If Klein had been captain, you could've smoked 'em if you had 'em. He calls the airlines' no-smoking rule "a sign of the dangerous lengths to which antismoking impulses will go to deny others the freedom to enjoy the consolation and mastery cigarettes provide in moments of stress or fear. Many people who do not normally smoke take up smoking during times of personal or public crisis, at moments of great anxiety when self-control and concentration are required...
...deploying a similar technique: first, convince people that the decision to abort is wrong, and then persuade them that the option to abort is wrong as well. However, if women get accustomed to pro-lifers telling them they should exercise their freedom to choose to carry a baby to term, they may be even less inclined to support efforts that would endanger that very right to choose...