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The Battle for Peace

General Anthony Zinni, the former commander in charge of U.S. Central Command, was on Meet the Press a week ago, speaking about the Iraq war and his new book, T…

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Colin Rule

Note New date Monday April 10, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 95 Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served As people around the world increasingly interact with e…

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My threshold or yours?

Two Wednesdays ago, on March 22, the Supreme Court decided Georgia v. Randolph, a criminal procedure case where police searched a house owned by two people: one…

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Authoritarian Capitalism

Since last summer the assistance of companies like Yahoo and Google in Chinese censorship practices is a much debated issue. Last week Yahoo again has been accu…

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Podcasting the Classrooom

As noted earlier on my blog, Elizabeth Townsend Gard and I are presenting at the Higher Ed Blog Con on the topic of podcasting in the traditional classroom. The…

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Religious Identity Isn't Destiny

Amartya Sen has a piece on Slate talking about the limitations of Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" thesis.  In fact, it's an essay drawn…

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TC @ Harvard

Trusted Computing Between Closed and Open Architectures. Audio version of a talk at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, March 7,…