Despite this fresh evidence, Pakistani police working on the Pearl case notice a distinct cooling in their superiors' interest. Saeed and his co-defendants are appealing the verdict, and Karim's testimony may weaken the government's case that Saeed was both ringleader of the plot and Pearl's executioner. Until the Pakistani Supreme Court rules on Saeed's appeal, say police, it is doubtful that kidnapping charges will be brought against Karim, who is in custody. Meanwhile, the search is on for Mohammed, who investigators think is still hiding in Pakistan.

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Thomas Olson, an attorney for the corporations, complained that since that order, Purdy has registered new names such as "washingtonpostspeaks.com" and "lovemcdonalds.com" that direct Internet users to Web sites that feature photos of what purport to be aborted fetuses. Purdy had previously been ordered to surrender names such as "mycoca-cola.com" and "mymcdonalds.com" that did the same thing.

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Elections Canada has charged him with "premature transmission" of results because he posted results available in Eastern Canada and through international media before the polls closed in the West.

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"All I know is for hours on end I said 'No, I had nothing to do with it.' Next thing you know I'm sitting here going 'Sure, why not. I did it.' More or less it's like they kill your spirit or something," he said.

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Fretting that not enough peer-to-peer pirates are already in the slammer, a band of congressmen asked Attorney General John Ashcroft last July to begin some NET Act prosecutions, pronto. Their letter complained of "a staggering increase in the amount of intellectual property pirated over the Internet through peer-to-peer systems." The 19 politicos--including Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.--urged Ashcroft "to prosecute individuals who intentionally allow mass copying from their computer over peer-to-peer neworks."

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However, she's fairly certain about one line that won't move. "Death," says Ms. Znak. "People don't want to watch that, because that's not what reality TV is about."

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ICommune differs from Apple's concept, however, in that it enables music downloads. Services such as Napster, Aimster, Morpheus and Kazaa have incurred the legal wrath of the music industry for enabling users to trade song files, which record companies say has resulted in mass piracy and declining CD sales.

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Instead, let's automatically divide our payment among all of the writers we read, based on how often we read each one. In other words, if you read Jill more than Jack, Jill gets that much more of your payment. If you never read Sam, Sam doesn't get any of your payment.

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Stripped of their identities, the girls were given numbers instead of names. They were forbidden to speak, except to pray. If they broke any rule or tried to escape, the nuns beat them over the head with heavy iron keys, put them into solitary confinement or shipped them off to a mental hospital.

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"Part of our business strategy is to focus on products with real technical roots," Ricci says. He has a steady grin and a way of holding his head motionless for so long that you can't tell if he's injured or enlightened. He also possesses the serenity of someone who has gotten what he wants. He has, of course, gotten what he wants. The Dragon code, sold to ScanSoft for $40 million, a half billion less than it was presumably worth last year, is a dazzling inheritance. Not just profound but enduring.

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"He's seven times been nominated as best actor, which puts him in extremely rarified air for a performer," Pierson said. "The Board of Governors felt it was time for him to hold his own Oscar in his hands."

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World number one chess player Garry Kasparov crushed the champion computer program Deep Junior in his trademark aggressive style on Sunday in the first game of their six-game ``Man vs Machine'' match in New York.

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