You might think that every musical artist would want to be signed by a major label, and you might think that any artist signed to a major label would be making a decent living -- a far better one than anyone could make selling records on their own. But the truth is that it doesn't always work that way.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say on Tuesday: "The Constitution just sets minimums ... Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires." According to Scalia, during wartime, "the protections will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum."

Justice Scalia says rights excessive, can be scaled down in wartime

] CNN Ordered Out of Baghdad - Accused of being propaganda machine.

Yahoo! News - CNN Ordered Out of Baghdad

Whitney Pastorek's chronicle of her inaugural adventure in broadcasting. With zero experience, she produced a feature about the "White Stripes" for Morning Edition, start to finish. In these chapters, Whitney, in her honest and expansive way, tells how she made order from chaos and what an edit is like.

Radio Journalism: Enter The White Stripes

]Achieving Rapid Dominance
]Written By: Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade
]With: L.A. "Bud" Edney, Fred M. Franks, Charles A. Horner, Jonathan ]T. Howe, and Keith Brendley

No matter how much the media wants to throw around this newest buzz-term, hardly any of them either know or care to mention where it comes from. This book supposedly proposes some if not most of the strategy being used by the military in iraq.

Shock & Awe, The Book

] Reaction has been coming in from around the world
] following US President George W Bush's deadline for
] President Saddam Hussein and his two sons to leave Iraq
] by 0100GMT on Thursday 20 March or face war.

Quotes from a variety of countries: France, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Canada, China, Russia, Philippines, Iran, the Arab League, Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), New Zealand, and the Vatican. All over the scale, from "we're for it" to "we're against it," to "we're staying out of it and minding our own business".

BBC NEWS : In quotes: Reaction to Bush ultimatum

question: Why can't there be a movie that tells a strong story, is full of humor and pathos, is packed with powerful performances, and features a lot of explicit sex — hard-ons, cum and all?

Sex is a conversation. Why can't a scene with two people having real sex be as dramatically interesting as a scene with them talking in a restaurant? Why can't there be a film that makes you say, "I laughed, I cried, I came!"

There's also a series of articles by someone going through the audition process in the salon sex section, Naked on the Set.

http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/03/13/festa/index_np.html

The Sex Film Project

] THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of
] peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with
] Iraq were not backed by international unity.
]
] Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991
] Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that the brief flowering of
] hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never
] have happened if America had ignored the will of the
] United Nations.
]
] He also urged the President to resist his tendency to
] bear grudges, advising his son to bridge the rift between
] the United States, France and Germany.
]
] %u201CYou%u2019ve got to reach out to the other person.
] You%u2019ve got to convince them that long-term
] friendship should trump short-term adversity,%u201D he
] said.

Bush Sr warning over unilateral action

] DEARBORN -- A Dearborn High School junior was sent home
] from school this week for wearing a T-shirt emblazoned
] with an anti-war message.
]
] Bretton Barber, 16, said he wanted to express his opinion
] Monday when he wore a T-shirt he bought over the Internet
] that shows a picture of President Bush and reads,
] "International Terrorist."
]
] Concerned the shirt could spark tensions in a district
] where more than 50 percent of students are Arab-American,
] school officials told Barber to turn the shirt inside
] out, take it off or go home.
]
] Barber said he decided to go home rather than surrender
] his freedom of expression. He returned to school Tuesday
] without the shirt.

Student gets sent home over his anti-Bush T-shirt - 02/19/03

So are you more likely a terrorist if you have a small bank account with lots of NFS's or if you have millions of dollars and large transactions? More dangerously "Unlike the current system, in which data stays with the airlines' reservation systems, the new setup will be managed by TSA. Only government officials with proper security clearance will be able to use it.". This means if you keep getting flagged as a problem, you cannot review the information and make corrections. Disturbing.

U.S. plan: Threat level for every flyer - Feb. 28, 2003