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POLITICAL ESSAYS
Memo 08 03-04 05
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August 3, 2005
Washington Post
New York Times Merges Staffs
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"The integration...mean[s]
that a single set of editors
will be responsible for both
digital and print versions of
articles, which should...lead
to creative new ways of pre-
senting information...."
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SELF-CONDEMNATION ?
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August 2, 2005
Financial Times
Italian connection puts EU
laws to test
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"[The simplified extradition
warrant] was issued more than
2,600 times across the EU in
the first nine months of last
year."
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SELF-CONDEMNATION ?
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August 3, 2005
Reuters
Treasury brings back 30-
year bond sales
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"Wall Street executives
advising the Treasury De-
partment on borrowing
issues said a proposed
lending facility to re-
duce 'fails' in the debt
repurchase market had
merit."
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"The Treasury Department
is seeking to cut the
number of fails episodes,
which occur when one party
to a repo transaction
fails to deliver the
securities required to
complete the transaction."
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SELF-CONDEMNATION ?
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August 3, 2005
Washington Post
Shooting Our Own Foot [edi-
torial]
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The Post says the upshot of
"the Chinese bid for Unocal"
presents two lessons.
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That China can blunder is
one.
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That "the United States is
capable of shooting itself
in the foot" is the other.
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SELF-CONDEMNATION ?
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August 3, 2005
Washington Post
National Oil Firms Take Big-
ger Role - Governments Hold
Most of World's Reserves
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"Oil analysts said that own-
ing reserves or producing
oil does not assure supply
for any country.
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"If there were a global
scramble for oil, there
would be nothing to stop a
country with a strong mil-
itary from seizing oil en
route to its owner."
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Simplified extradition sans
phrase!
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Needed: creative new ways
of presenting this informa-
tion.
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August 4, 2005
Washington Post
Under Siege in Dulles By
New-Generation Hackers
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In Dulles? At "Veri-
Sign's global network
operations center in Dul-
les [VA]."
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Scoop:
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"The most famous [distri-
buted denial of service]
was launched...in October
2002, briefly bringing
down more than half of the
[Internet's] 13 master ad-
dress directories....
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"...a second, unpublicized
attack occurred later that
night,...characterized as
'five times worse.'"
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Unpublicized?
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Lost 'em all.
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Creative new way of pre-
senting that information:
"five times worse."
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August 3, 2005
Associated Press
Commuter Train Snaps Elec-
tric Line
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People are wearied with
the falling-tree crap.
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Creative crap: "a commuter
train snapped an electric
line"; and "Many Amtrak
and commuter trains were
stopped...."
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Offstage: Philly Provos.
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Ploys aren't confined to
the likes of London.
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August 4, 2005
Wheeling [WV] News-Regis-
ter
...Application a 'Ploy'

"Notice of a state beer
license application to
operate another tavern
in the city was nothing
but a stunt to shed light
on the spread of video
gambling...."
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