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...pressure alive on the observer issue, particularly because the fate of Jerusalem's holy sites is a pan-Arab concern. Clashes in Jerusalem inflame anger on the streets of Arab capitals, whose regimes are then compelled, in the interests of domestic stability, to press Washington to do more to rein in the Israelis...
...what Wahid was advocating. Wahid, in his own feeble way, was restraining the army from going in to the breakaway provinces and and committing the sorts of human rights abuses we saw last year in East Timor. I think Megawati is going to give the army a free rein to go in and crush the separatist uprisings in Aceh and Irian Jaya...
...books, but electronic content like E-Books, that has publishers worried. Libraries, like the rest of us, have long been governed under the "First Sale" doctrine, which basically allows the purchaser of a book free rein - you can sell it, loan it out, or use it as kindling. But you can't make multiple copies for distribution. And as digital publishing becomes more common, the duplication of content keeps getting easier and more practical. Instead of standing at the photocopier for hours to make an illicit copy of a John Grisham novel, you can in theory now just copy...
Arafat is in a tough position. His promise of a cease-fire raises expectations that he will rein in his own gunmen and jail Islamic terrorists. But the mood among Palestinians is unforgiving, and Arafat will find it hard to justify arrests when most Palestinians favor more attacks against Israelis. Sharon promises to defend Israeli citizens, and his Cabinet ministers talk darkly of "removing the immunity" of senior Palestinian Authority officials. With almost 600 people dead in the eight-month Aqsa intifadeh, no one expects the youngsters at the Dolphinarium to be the last to pay the price for peace...
Moreover, because broadcasters and advertisers hate how PVRs can fast-forward and rewind programs still being broadcast (thereby letting viewers skip the ads), they are trying to rein us in. According to London tech consultancy Datamonitor, the next-generation boxes will permit viewing to be monitored and allow broadcasters to either prevent viewers from fast forwarding ads or offer us rewards for agreeing to watch them...