Archive for January, 2003
Israeli officer blocks raid that would harm civilians.
“An Israeli officer has been removed from his post for obstructing an air attack against the Palestinians.
According to the Israeli newspaper, Maariv, the military intelligence officer held back information "for reasons of conscience" because he believed the raid would harm civilians.”
BBC NEWS
Keynote crashes iBooks with 10.2.3
Looks like Keynote has a bug specific to the video cards on iBooks running 10.2.3.
“This issue has been reported most often when using 500 MHz iBook computers with Mac OS X10.2.3, but other models may be affected.”
AppleCare Document: 61858
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
This article explains where the Wortheim Study (the place where I work on my dissertation) is on the pecking order of rooms for writers at the NY Public library.
“Although many New Yorkers are vaguely aware that the library sets room aside for writers, fewer know that there is a hierarchy when it comes to the […]
U.S. Claim on Iraqi Nuclear Program Is Called Into Question
“Bush cited the aluminum tubes in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly and in documents presented to U.N. leaders. Vice President Cheney and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice both repeated the claim, with Rice describing the tubes as "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs."
It was by far the most prominent, detailed assertion by […]
What About Those End Times, Mr. President?
“Critics of the Christian Right say the IFCJ’s appeal to "prophesy" in their infomercial is a thinly veiled reference to Armageddon, the Second Coming of Christ and the moment when nonbelievers — Jews included — will be cast into the lake of fire. Jewish critics of the IFCJ say the group demeans the dignity of […]
Amazing Headlines
You have to read to the very end of this post to find out!
“So what’s remarkable about these headlines?”
WampumBlog
Affirmative Action does not hurt white students chances of admission
“But overall, the trend is clear: at combined SAT scores of 1300 and above, the presence or absence of affirmative action makes no significant difference at all to the odds of a white student being admitted. At lower scores, the difference exists, but is tiny. A white student with a combined score below 100 has […]
Cheney and the privatization of the US military
This is an interesting LA Times article on Cheney’s links to the company that is one of the largest contractors of an increasingly privatized US military.
“Vice President Dick Cheney was defense secretary when the first Brown & Root study was done, and he became chief executive of its parent company, Halliburton, when he retired, providing […]
The protest-crowd numbers game
Sociology professor revises protest figures downwards for DC rally:
“Clark McPhail, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of America’s preeminent authorities on protest crowds. His award-winning 1991 book on crowd behavior, "The Myth of the Madding Crowd," is required reading in his field. When the Washington Post wanted to […]
Row erupts over English teacher plan
Seems the MOE may not even have the right to block the hiring of English teachers from other countries!
“Can the MOE halt the import of Filipinos and Indians to teach English in Taiwan?”
Taipei Times
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
