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...Railway. Declaring that God doesn't want the Métis to use guerrilla tactics, Riel disastrously waits for the soldiers who promptly end the Métis rebellion. The final issues recreate Riel's trial for treason where he must reluctantly submit to being defended on an insanity plea. Found guilty, he dies at the gallows...
...Note to TIME.comix Readers Fantagraphics Books, the Seattle-based comix publisher, has issued a desperate plea for readers to buy their books. Their book distributor went belly up, owing them tens of thousands of dollars, the publishers say. According to their press release they need to sell off $80,000 worth of books in the next month to remain solvent...
...HAKIM, 66, Iranian-born Silicon Valley businessman and financial guru behind the Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s; of a heart attack; in Inchon, South Korea. Hakim masterminded the web of bank accounts used to funnel U.S. weapons and funds to Iran and Nicaraguan rebels. As part of a plea bargain, he paid a $5,000 fine and served two years of probation...
...legal fight is far from a sure thing. Copyright laws are slippery and subjective--the judge in the Grokster case made a special plea in his ruling asking Congress to fix gaps in the laws that cover file sharing. Enforcing those laws is also tricky. Colleges, where a lot of the downloading goes on, like to think of themselves as bastions of privacy and free speech, not copyright police. The international reach of the Internet makes enforcement even dodgier. Case in point: in 1999 Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager, figured out how to break the copy protection on commercial DVDs...
...petition delivered to the law school administration and faculty last week shows beyond doubt that improving HLS’ sub-standard environmental law program is much more than a pet cause of enviros. Signed by 350 law students, the petition is a vital plea for rapid improvements in Harvard’s long-suffering environmental law curriculum, and the administration must heed its call...