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...Supreme Court decision finding "numbers dialed" to be unprotected by the Fourth Amendment relied heavily on the technical details of the existing telephone network. The Court noted that the numbers dialed did not reveal the purpose of the call, the identities of either caller or recipient, or even whether the call was completed and a communication took place. Yet none of these qualities are shared by e-mail addresses or Web links, both of which the FBI would like to include under Carnivore's surveillance. A phone number might tell me who called you, but not what they said...
...region-wide fire that could torch much of the progress all sides have made thus far. The current violence illustrates just how untenable the deal on Jerusalem offered by Israel at Camp David would be for Palestinians, and yet Barak will likely be forced now to retreat from even that offer...
...Arafat may not have to answer to a parliament, but even once he commits to it, he'll find it increasingly difficult to rein in a Palestinian street long skeptical of the value of his negotiating efforts. The attacks over the Lebanese border by the guerrillas of Hezbollah on Saturday may be more of a headache for the Palestinian leader than for Barak. Ever since Hezbollah's victory was acclaimed throughout the Arab world in the summer after Israel withdrew from Lebanon, young Palestinians skeptical of Arafat's peacemaking efforts have admiringly cited its example. Arafat is facing a direct...
...Bill Clinton is almost out of office, without the Nobel. Is the Middle East too much for even Clinton's resilient and conciliatory shmooze? I think of the shrewd imperialist Kipling: "At the end of the fight is a tombstone white/ with the name of the late deceased./ And the epitaph drear: A fool lies here/ Who tried to hustle the east...
...gold standard for civilized political discourse in their debate last Thursday night, but with the Main Event, Part II just two days away in the heat of a race that just won't budge, no one in either camp seems to have any interest in keeping it up. Not even Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman...