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...doubt that? Then listen to Muzammal Shah, a member of the Kashmiri radical group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in Islamabad. "Thousands of Kashmiris have been martyred," he says. "We cannot let the blood of those people go to waste." To touch those who define life as a blood feud, diplomacy, however skillful, is a trembling wand...
...Forward Spin: Napster will have to prove it is significantly better than free services. The challenge is to offer music at acceptable prices with the features people want most, like the ability to listen to downloaded songs on any device...
...writers assert, “The sit-in was a strategy in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest actions that have forced the powerful to listen to the dispossessed.” The last time I checked, a group of students forcibly entering the confines of the administrative offices at a private university, demanding that it give up its right to decide how its endowment will be spent, was not “non-violence” but, rather, criminal theft...
...simply cannot e-mail or Instant Message an MP3 file to a friend. Even worse, they can extend the per-use model of the public performance companies to end users, forcing individuals to pay miniscule amounts—say 10 cents—every time they want to listen to an MP3. The enabling technology is called digital rights management (DRM), which codes the rules of use favored by the record publishers and forces users to adhere to those rules if they wish to listen to the music files. The record labels are now setting up competing download sites?...
...Taliban's morale won't crack until it suffers heavy battlefield losses. So long as the U.S. limits its ground operations to commando raids, the job of inflicting those casualties lies with the Northern Alliance. Alliance commanders have provided their strategy for toppling the regime to anyone who will listen: once American bombs softened Taliban forces, the Alliance planned to make its move into the key northern outposts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz and Taliqan, cutting a swath through the heart of Taliban country. As the Alliance rolled back the Taliban in the north, the thinking went, the certainty...