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...RIAA began actively policing peer-to-peer file-sharing networks in 2003. In just over four years, no one has yet tested the association’s claims in court, with everyone choosing instead to settle before going to trial. “Pre-litigation” letters warn illegal downloaders that they could be fined more than $750 per song if found guilty...
...Business leaders-the ones busy hiring Indian and Chinese college graduates-warn that judging by America's current education efforts, the nation is already falling behind. "The competitiveness of the U.S. workforce depends on a strong educational foundation, particularly in the math and science skills required to succeed in the information-technology industry," says Craig R. Barrett, chairman of Intel. "We need to raise our sights and not tolerate the mediocrity we already have." John Chen, the chairman and ceo of Sybase, a California software company (and a man whose parents fled Shanghai for Hong Kong after the communists took...
...mato oput. LRA leader Joseph Kony was indicted, along with three other commanders, by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...
...President Nicolas Sarkozy, known to be closer to the U.S. and more supportive of Israel than his predecessor, Jacques Chirac. "The extremist websites and forums are buzzing with belligerent language calling for punishment of the supposedly pro-U.S., pro-Israel Sarkozy," says one French intelligence official. But others warn against overstating the Sarkozy factor, noting that France has always been a target of al-Qaeda and related jihadist groups, and that the election of Sarkozy - who inspired hostility in France's crumbling suburban ghettoes, and whose support for the U.S. and even the fact that he had a Jewish...
Beyond the risks of addiction, however, officials warn that there are dangerous links between the drug business and funding for terrorism - an argument that U.S. authorities use to press European governments to crack down on drug networks. They point to the fact that the explosives used in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, which killed 191 people, were bought with hashish. "We are seeing increasing incidents of the use of drug barter for munitions in terror attacks," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Karen Tandy told international law-enforcement officials at a meeting in Madrid...