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  • Free Speech is alive and well in the US of A

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    Doonesbury dropped by Continental Features for anti-Iraq sentiments. Linda Ronstadt gets booed, escorted off premises of Aladdin hotel-casino for calling Michael Moore a “great American patriot.” Slim-Fast drops Whoppi Goldberg as spokesperson after cracks she made about George Bush

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  • Induce

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    Under much protest from technology companies and internet providers, Senator Orrin Hatch intends to move ahead with the controversial Induce Act. The Induce Act, would make “whoever intentionally induces any violation” of copyright law legally liable for those violations. Ostensibly a way to outlaw P2P Networks and designed to overturn an April 2003 ruling that…

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  • IHT: Saddam’s people are winning the war

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    Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998 on Iraqi resistance since the transfer of sovereignty to the new Iraqi government. “We will suffer a decade-long nightmare that will lead to the deaths of thousands more Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis. We will witness the creation of a viable and dangerous…

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  • Christina Blizzard – Taking from the middle

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    The Ontario Liberals may have come to power on a slogan of helping “working families,” but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the new Liberal credo is “make the middle class pay” — for everything. You only have to look at this week’s announcement from Universities Minister Mary Anne Chambers that in future, refugee claimants will…

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  • iPods for Dukes

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    Duke University freshmen will be getting a brand new 20Gb iPod loaded with all kinds of useful information like orientation schedules, calendars, campus tours and the Duke fight song.

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  • Toronto Sun: Health smoke & mirrors

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    How nice that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government wants to buy out seven private MRI and CT clinics across Ontario. Now for the big questions. How much is it going to cost us and how will it improve public access to MRI and CT scans? As a health ministry spokesman noted yesterday, these clinics…

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  • I don’t kick puppies!

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    I am a computer nerd with interests in art, philosophy, music, and world domination. I am good at the things I do, and always try to make myself better. … Also, I don’t kick puppies. I am attracted to all sorts of girls, and prefer intelligence and sense of humor over bust size. I want…

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