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...Berman lost that race, but he has used his big-tent style to become a major political operator as head of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. As a proponent of free speech and privacy on the Net, Berman helped overturn the Communications Decency Act of 1996, Congress's attempt to outlaw pornography on the Internet. Now Berman and his nonprofit center are fighting for legislation to protect consumer privacy on the Internet. The very corporations he often opposes, including America Online and Microsoft, finance his $1.25 million annual crusade. Says Berman: "Being an advocate...
...their misuse is developing at the speed of a tortoise." Still, the law may catch up. The California legislature is reintroducing a notification bill that was vetoed in October by Democratic Governor Gray Davis. Last month Senator Charles Schumer of New York introduced the federal Notice of Electronic Monitoring Act, which has a similar...
SCHOOL: Bronxville H.S., N.Y. SCANDAL: Photo of football players simulating a sexual act, with the caption ONE TIME, AT FOOTBALL CAMP... UPSHOT: A facultywide memo of apology from editors; negative publicity for a school named fifth best...
...ducked work in order to spend time with his soon-to-be wife--his first holiday since 1996. Nhung was onstage in the Long Phung Culture Center, singing the songs of Trinh Cong Son to a rapt audience. And Huy was back in the Hot Club, coaxing another new act, looking for that smile...
...enforcement authorities and the government did not respond to repeated requests for a comment on the apparent leak. But the incident follows reports from the State Department and Congress criticizing Greece for failure to act against 17 November, a Marxist-Leninist group that has operated with impunity since 1975. Some former U.S. officials now allege that past high-ranking members of the country's ruling Socialists have had links with the terrorist group. Since then, the group has killed an additional 22 Greek and foreign nationals, including four American officials. Saunders, 53 and the father of two, was the first...