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Digital Nostalgia
Both Sony and Universal Music will reissue classic recordings in digital form. Long out-of-print work from the likes of Jacques Brel will turn up in online stores in coming months.
Asset Management
Spurred by articles in The Des Moines Register, Iowa homeland security officials decrease their list of 11,600 “critical assets” that need protection from a terrorist strike to 1,360. Even that number includes many targets of dubious value, such as county courthouses.
Police Action
A federal appeals court rules that a D.C. police official who ordered the summary arrest of 400 people in Pershing Park in September 2002 can be held personally liable for the action. Police tried to contain an anti-globalization rally by stuffing protesters and passersby alike into buses for up to 36 hours.
Speech Talk
DePaul University reverses a ban on “propaganda.” The original rule had been deployed to stop College Republicans from handing out flyers featuring quotes from an upcoming campus speaker, 9/11 apologist Ward Churchill.
Blog Splitting
Microsoft clarifies its policy on blog content. It’s still willing to remove a blog after an official legal request from a country with jurisdiction, but the content will be blocked only inside the offended country, not in the rest of the world.
Scary Politics
The spirit of Jesse Ventura lives on! Jonathon Sharkey is running for governor in Minnesota under the banner of the Vampyres, Witches, and Pagans Party.
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