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...American imperialist practice has usually been more benign than Britain's. (The R.A.F. bombed Iraqi villages that were late in paying their taxes, which even the Colonial Office in London thought was a bit much.) And America's ostensible motives today are pure (so long as we don't mention oil). "Liberty for the Iraqi people," said Bush, "is a great moral cause." It doubtless is. But just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so imperialism is in the mind of the imperialized. The motive of imperialists is irrelevant. (France justified its past colonial policies...
...here's one important security measure the report failed to mention: check your hard drive for spyware. Spyware is any kind of program installed in your computer without your consent to gather information about you or your organization. A typical piece of spyware will watch over your shoulder while you browse the Web, record your mouse clicks and broadcast all that information back to another computer (ostensibly for marketing purposes). It's part of a class of increasingly surreptitious software that includes adware (which serves up commercials you didn't ask for--as if pop-up ads weren't enough...
...beginning to look a little too eager for war. Just a day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair released a new dossier of infractions by Saddam Hussein--a dossier that made no mention of the Iraqi leader's links to al-Qaeda--both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were cranking up new accusations of links between Saddam and the al-Qaeda terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. That night, as the Daschle explosion ruled the evening news, Rice appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and said "high-ranking detainees" had told the U.S. that...
...lift the trade embargo on Cuba that the White House would never go along. Bush's position was based on policy, not politics, Rove promised, but the Congressmen didn't buy it. The Cuban-American lobby is key to Bush's hope of winning Florida in 2004, not to mention his brother's tough re-election bid in November to be the state's Governor. Says anti-embargo Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona: "Everyone recognizes there is a political element to this...
...third first-year featured in the same story said his proctor informed him that the Freshmen Dean's Office was aware of his mention in the article, but that the deans didn't require a meeting...