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A very interesting

June 1, 2004 by Michael Boyle

new site from Cam Barrett and Joe Stump: TodaysPapers.com. Adding community features to news stories from all over the web. I wonder if Aaron’s NYTimes stuff could add something to this? Trouble is Aaron has been so very coy about his /knows/ stuff that I’m not sure I follow what it is.

Tags: Aaron Straup Cope, Community, Newspapers

Important (if dated) news

June 1, 2004 by Michael Boyle

from the world of pizza: Italy sets strict guidelines for pizza-making. Of course this has little to do with the practically unrelated dish we call ‘pizza’ in North America.

Tags: International Affairs

David Crosby:

May 28, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Frontline interview from PBS’ The Way the Music Died. I don’t know that I’d so blithely use Woodstock as any kind of benchmark – the execs certainly knew about CSNY as a purely commercial undertaking – but nevertheless there’s a lot to glean from any interview with Crosby on this subject.

Tags: Media

On May 26, Al Gore

May 28, 2004 by Michael Boyle

made a speech that has been widely noted since. The full text has been published by MoveOn. “…from its earliest days in power, this administration sought to radically destroy the foreign policy consensus that had guided America since the end of World War II. The long successful strategy of containment was abandoned in favor of the new strategy of ‘preemption.’ And what they meant by preemption was not the inherent right of any nation to act preemptively against an imminent threat to its national security, but rather an exotic new approach that asserted a unique and unilateral U.S. right to ignore international law wherever it wished to do so and take military action against any nation, even in circumstances where there was no imminent threat. All that is required, in the view of Bush’s team is the mere assertion of a possible, future threat – and the assertion need be made by only one person, the President.”

Tags: US Politics

Josh Marshall then reported

May 28, 2004 by Michael Boyle

that the filming was later called off. I guess shining the light of day on such practices can have an effect.

Tags: US Politics

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