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Metallica also hired NetPD, a consulting firm, to monitor Napster for users who illegally traded its music. Metallica brought the resulting list of more than 300,000 users to Napster's attention and insisted that these users be banned from its service under the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law passed in 1998 to deal with digital media...
...that last July ultimately gave the rebels amnesty, a share in government power and a piece of the country's diamond wealth. It apparently wasn't enough, so violence has erupted again in poor, shattered Sierra Leone. And this time it has engulfed the very U.N. troops sent to monitor the peace. Soldiers from the unrepentant R.U.F. swooped down on U.N. personnel across the tiny country last week. By Friday, four Kenyan peacekeepers lay dead, more than 300 others were held hostage, and brazen rebels were reportedly "on the move" in 13 captured U.N. armored personnel carriers...
...force in the world. Yet last week Holbrooke acknowledged that Sierra Leone cast a "potential shadow" on all U.N. operations as he and a Security Council delegation met with Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa to sign the agreement to send 5,000 U.N. troops to monitor a tottering peace deal there. Holbrooke says the Congo war, which pits Angola- and Zimbabwe-backed government troops against Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebel groups, is far too complex for the U.N. to do much more than try to negotiate among the warring parties. But as events in Sierra Leone...
Grassi says the committee needs to "monitor" the restructuring, as well as the elementary school merger...
Intelligence sources also said that the laptop may have been missing for two weeks before anyone noticed. After that, another two weeks passed before State's in-house security service was called in. The congressional committees that monitor intelligence (and which by law must be informed of potential espionage) were only notified in mid-April. "Security is synonymous with the conduct of an effective foreign policy," says Benjamin Gilman, chairman of the House International Relations Committee. "This serious lapse calls that into question...