• Changing the World 101 (Fran Quigly, NUVO)

"Today's protesters are emboldened by plenty of 20th century examples of successful non-violent resistance: India's struggle against colonialism, the U.S. civil rights campaign, Poland's anti-communist Solidarity movement. To White, the example that best applies to the current protests is the widespread resistance against the U.S. war in Vietnam."

• The CIA Is Back on Campus (David N. Gibbs, CounterPunch)

"While pundits never tire of the cliché that American universities are dominated by leftist faculty, who are hostile toward the objectives of established foreign policies, the reality is altogether different: The CIA has become "a growing force on campus," according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. The "Agency finds it needs experts from academia, and colleges pressed for cash like the revenue." Longstanding academic inhibitions about being publicly associated with the CIA have largely disappeared: In 2002, former CIA Director Robert Gates became president of Texas A & M University, while the new president of Arizona State University, Michael Crow was vice-chairman of the Agency's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel Inc. Current CIA Director George Tenet delivered the commencement address at the Rochester Institute of Technology.3 The CIA has created a special scholarship program, for graduate students able and willing to obtain security clearances. According to the London Guardian, "the primary purpose of the program is to promote disciplines that would be of use to intelligence agencies."4 And throughout the country, academics in several disciplines are undertaking research (often secret) for the CIA."

• Mystery over Saddam as Battle Rages (Jim Miklaszewski, MSNBC)

"As U.S. officials tried to determine whether Saddam Hussein survived a massive bombing in Baghdad, the battle for control of the Iraqi capital raged Tuesday with American forces blasting government targets and foiling an apparent Iraqi counterattack. A U.S. warplane dropped four bunker-buster bombs and blasted a smoking crater 60 feet deep at a building Monday in the capital where U.S. officials believed the Iraqi president was meeting with at least one of his sons and other members of his inner circle."

• Intel Coder Not Going Anywhere (Leander Kahney, Wired News)

"Intel programmer Mike Hawash, detained as a witness by federal authorities in what appears to be a terrorism probe, will be held until at least the end of April, according to a court order released on Monday afternoon."

• Latest Bin Laden Tape Urges Suicide Attacks (Staff and Agencies, Guardian)

"A new cassette tape purporting to be from Osama bin Laden urges suicide attacks calls on Muslims to rise up against Arab governments that support the attack on Iraq."

• Moral Clarity: An Unauthorized Glossary of War (Cynthia Cotts, Village Voice)

"Instead of improving their argument against Saddam Hussein, Pentagon briefers use patois to deflect sharp questions and camouflage the trail of blood from Basra to Baghdad. Herewith a glossary of war euphemisms, plus some slang terms that tag along."

"In urban warfare, commanders could tell their officers on the street where Iraqi soldiers and Fedayeen guerrillas are hiding—which rooftops they're crouched on, which windows they've been firing from, which alleyways are clear and which are death traps. Without the drones, the Iraqis would enjoy a geographic advantage; with the drones, this advantage is, while not entirely overwhelmed, considerably stripped away. The drones also allow the U.S. forces to maneuver in coordination, to retain the initiative, and to achieve tactical surprise—none of which are Iraqi forces able to do any longer."

• 9-11 Geopolitical Analysis (MP3) (Chris Cowan and Natasha Todorovic, NVC Consulting)

"We . . . are strongly opposed to President Bush's preemptive war against Iraq. We believe it is being undertaken without credible evidence, lacks adequate justification under international law, sets a terrible precedent for other nations going into the future, and is a precursor to global turmoil that need not be. In short, we think that Mr. Bush is dead wrong, that his advisors have misdirected him and the nation, that he is turning the US into a rogue state and bully, and that the long-term repercussions of this primitive approach will be horrific."

• An Analysis of the RIAA's Complaint Against Dan Peng '05 (Joseph Barillari)

"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued Dan Peng, a Princeton sophomore, for direct and contributory infringement of their members' copyrights. This essay analyzes that contributory infringement claim. Peng allegedly operated a computer service called "wake" which cataloged the publicly-shared files on the campus network. The RIAA draws a parallel between "wake" and Napster, and calls upon the court to apply the reasoning from the Napster case."

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