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But Rudenstine--formerly the provost of Princeton University--said that although he has purchased a house there, he has not yet decided where to live.
Russian commanders had boasted that Grozny would fall within days after a concerted effort to seize the city began on Christmas eve. But mounting Russian casualties in the face of ferocious Chechen resistance signaled that Moscow would pay a heavy price to capture the city. Despite a six-week siege...
The popularity of the Chechnya campaign has made Putin the hot favorite in presidential elections scheduled for March, but the specter of mounting Russian casualties in a Caucasian quagmire could eat away at his support. Still, suspending the assault - out of a sudden concern for the city's civilian population...
How do you protect private property in cyberspace? A California judge will try to tackle that question next week when the latest potentially groundbreaking cyberspace case hits the chambers. This one's a class-action suit by electronics makers against web sites that enable Internet users to download pirated DVDs...
The 72 web sites named as defendants in the suit don't carry the software but have links to sites that do. The plaintiffs, huddled into an industry group called the DVD Copy Control Association, claim that the sites guide users to software known to be illegally pirated. The illegality...