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...really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter, and an IRA statement that it was talking again with the international body in charge of putting paramilitary weapons beyond...
...interest rates in the early '90s. Greenspan has made it perfectly clear (by his standard, anyway) that he prefers debt reduction to a big tax cut. And the meeting came a day before Greenspan and the FOMC meet, at which time they are likely to restore the Fed's neutral bias toward interest rates headed into the winter...
Africa is being threatened by its own culture of male pride, intimidation, sexual entitlement, carelessness and gender- neutral cruelty. Don't blame the West for the epidemic of AIDS. This particular crime against humanity is being perpetrated by a culture in which the criminal is also the victim. Prevention should be the key strategy, but until the African culture opens its eyes to its part in this tragedy, it will be a losing battle. PATTI LAMB Richmond, Texas...
...contributory infringement, it fortunately reiterated the Supreme Court's standard that devices capable of substantial non-infringing uses are still legal. The Napster protocol, which is merely a set of instructions for sending and receiving files, is no more illegal than the Windows "copy file" function. Beneficial, content-neutral technologies can easily be hijacked by pirates who find them useful, but they should not be banned for that reason alone. Otherwise, VCR's and tape decks would have been banned long ago for contributing to copyright infringement--as they almost were until the Supreme Court stepped in. Even if their...
...cost of this constant monitoring will be measured in lost innovations. What engineer would have been willing to design the content-neutral HTTP protocol that undergirds the Web if it had been viewed with the same suspicion as the content-neutral OpenNap protocol is today? Both protocols are capable of non-infringing use, and new ways of sharing information, regardless of the motives of their developers, offer the potential for vast social benefits...