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...Union and the American Library Association as well as dozens of other plaintiffs, including Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Watch, had argued that the statute was so vaguely worded and ill defined that discussions in online chat rooms about abortion or contraception could have attracted the vice squad. Says Ira Glasser, executive director of the A.C.L.U.: "It would have criminalized all sorts of speech that would never have been criminalized before...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Remember Ira Magaziner? He was Hillary Clinton's partner in formulating the extremely complex 1993 Clinton healthcare reform proposal. Web entrepreneurs who may have been a tad concerned to learn that Magaziner's next big challenge was formulating the White House Web commerce strategy announced today may be relieved to see that while President Clinton seems determined to control some forms of Web content, he's taking a hands-off approach to Web commerce. In presenting a policy paper designed to serve as blueprint for government control of the Internet, from copyright protections to privacy considerations, the President...
ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, 57, peace-spouting hippie guru who escaped to Europe 16 years ago after fatally beating his former girlfriend and stuffing her mummified remains in a trunk; at his home in Champagne-Mouton, France. A favorite of Philadelphia's intelligentsia in the 1970s, Einhorn was convicted of first-degree murder in absentia in 1993. He faces extradition...
...varsity's win over Yale and Princeton was its second in three weeks. These three crews should lead the field at the IRA Championships, May 29-31, on the Cooper river in Camden...
LONDON: Labour's landslide election win has Irish Prime Minister John Bruton talking up peace prospects in Northern Ireland. Bruton called for an IRA cease-fire and urged the organization to take advantage of Labour's control of parliament to jump-start talks. "Here, the basic feeling is that there is a new sort of urgency and enthusiasm for trying to restart the peace process," reports TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "After being elected last week, Blair seems willing to try new initiatives and arrangements which may bridge the impasse and get the parties talking. The huge majority...