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U.S. Aid Post Earthquake Shaky
The Washington Post reports: Last night, more than 24 hours after the quake struck, Bush administration officials were unable to say what else the United State…
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Excessive Lawyer Regulation
The website of the New Delhi law firm Anand and Anand Associates provides only contact information about the lawyers at that firm, with the following explanatio…
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Blogging from India
What if V.S. Naipaul would have blogged his travels, rather than set them down for future publication? I'm sure his writing was better for being in print.…
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Subservient Chicken Exposed!
It was natural language processing after all, with stock footage. From Steve: How the chicken works: "It's automated. They have about 3 or 4 hundred…
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Order Chicken Around
One of the more surreal uses of the web that I've witnessed. Apparently a live webcam on a guy in a chicken outfit. You can order him to do stuff and he d…
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Vote for Top Legal Thinkers
The magazine Legal Affairs is conducting an online poll of the top 20 Legal Thinkers in America. Of course, they recognize the poll is unscientific, but it'…
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Richard Sanders' Stanford Law Review Affirmative Action Study Critiqued
Goodwin Liu of Boalt Hall has a nice rebuttal to Richard Sanders' bizarre claim that affirmative action hurts blacks by leading them down a primrose path:…
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Poll Suggests Quarter of Americans Want Muslim Americans to Register Location
A new poll conducted by Cornell researchers finds: About 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location…
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Robert Zoellick Likely World Bank Head
The Bush Administration seems likely to appoint U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick to the Presidency of the World Bank. Colin Powell had been mentioned…
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Just When Did We Loan Saddam $4.1 Billion?
The U.S. has kindly agreed to cancel the $4.1 billion dollars that Iraq owes to us. But the news stories don't explain what this debt consists in. When di…
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Please Someone Explain "Physics" to Rumsfeld, and then "Incompetence"
In his response to soldier Wilson, Rumsfeld said that the failure to produce more armored Humvees was a matter of "physics." It seems hard to imagine…
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Kerik Fathered and Abandoned Daughter in Korea
As reported in the Korea Times, Kerik fathered a daughter with a Korean woman while he was stationed as a policeman in Korea in the 1970s. New US Homeland Chie…