In an exclusive interview with CBS News Anchor Dan Rather, Saddam Hussein denied his al-Samoud missiles were in violation of U.N. mandates and indicated he will resist demands that he destroy them. He also challenged President Bush to a live broadcast debate on the looming war.

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Taken away from their homes, across an international border, left with no other means of support, the victims of sex traffickers are kept as virtual prisoners and frequently physically abused.

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Naomi Klein is a celebrity. The author of the bestseller, "No Logo", is a pied piper to a generation of anti-globalisation protesters. In that book, she argued that corporate brandlords exploit the world's poor to provide the products rich westerners have been trained to crave. She married Veblen's views of conspicuous consumption to Marx's analysis of capitalist exploitation, thereby connecting the dissatisfaction of the spoiled children of the west to the ills of global inequality, corporate power and environmental degradation. The argument was arrogant, paranoid and wrong. But it was also an intellectual coup.

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Conversations with victims' families about these motions are not easy for prosecutors, said Joshua Marquis, co-chairman of the National District Attorneys Association's capital litigation committee. "Every prosecutor dreads making a phone call to a victim after the victim thinks the case is over," Mr. Marquis said. "You're reopening the wound."

"To make sure we are clear on this," Judge Michael A. Wolff of the Supreme Court replied, "if we find in a particular case that DNA evidence absolutely excludes somebody as the murderer, then we must execute them anyway if we can't find an underlying constitutional violation at their trial?"

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What would therapy look like if repression came back into vogue? Here's Dusty Miller. She lives and works in Northampton, Mass. She's well into her 50's, with blue eyes and moccasins. Her office is small and spartan. On the wall there is a picture of Audre Lorde and the words ''When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision -- than it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.'' Miller knows this to be true.

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This week, however, Berman said he may not revive the measure. For one thing, copyright holders may not need extra protection to combat file-sharing piracy, he said. And though Berman wasn't deterred by complaints from consumer advocates, the concerns voiced by Hollywood studios -- among the biggest beneficiaries of the bill, given their active anti-piracy efforts online -- suggested that Berman was climbing out on a limb by himself.

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The Senate report also provides some fascinating insight into marijuana consumption in Canada -- and the failure of current laws to curb it. The committee estimates that about three million Canadians, ages 14 to 65, smoked pot at least once during the previous 12 months, and pegs the costs of trying to enforce Canada's pot laws at $300 million annually. Yet only 20,000 people are arrested on cannabis possession charges each year. How many more billions of dollars, ask the senators, would it cost to truly enforce the law? And couldn't that money be better spent targeting the illicit trade in more dangerous drugs such as heroin and cocaine and funding overall drug use prevention and treatment programs?

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That's not bad money, but it's split four ways, or $40,477.25 each, about the same as a city sanitation worker with two years' experience, without health benefits, vacation and retirement fund. But with, of course, groupies.

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The controversy stemming from ACPA cases do not stop with the technodome.com decision. In a case that will be the subject of an appeal to be heard later this week, the City of Barcelona sued the long-time owner of the Barcelona.com domain name by invoking the ACPA. The U.S. court asserted jurisdiction over the dispute despite the fact that the city did not hold a U.S. trademark in the name Barcelona. Rather, the court concluded that the ACPA could be applied equally to foreign trademarks.

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To test his hunch, Pashley removed almost all the gas from a water-oil mixture by repeatedly freezing and thawing it while pumping off the gases as they evaporated out (Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol 107, p 1714).
What he saw then was completely unexpected. "The mix spontaneously formed a cloudy emulsion. I was as surprised as anybody," says Pashley. The result suggests that dissolved gas may be involved in how the force acts.

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"Because of Cubbie's support for our troops, we no longer serve french fries. We now serve freedom fries," says a sign in the restaurant's window.

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I do have a high personal opinion about most if not all the current and past Directors. But, like it or not, probably the clearest truth about ICANN is that the Board does not work as it should. There are many reasons for that, and none amounts to any "conspiracy" whatsoever, but this is the reality: the Board discusses too little, too often it's done too late, most of the times on topics that have nothing to do with DNS or any other "core topic", and relate instead to "structure" and "process"; at the end of the day, we approve whatever comes from the staff (twhere all of the "intellectual processes" take place, as we all know).

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A bow hunt could offer a quiet, unobtrusive and safe way to thin the deer population, McKenzie says, but public resistance and a city bylaw banning the discharge of firearms or bows, even in rural areas of the city, present major roadblocks.

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This site aims to be the primary Internet resource for any and all references to the aforementioned quote.

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Although there are no guarantees that Dutch legislation at some point in time might impose restrictions on file sharing services that operate from the Netherlands, there are now great business opportunities. The Netherlands has a very hospitable climate for businesses plus we have a history of setting liberal precedents in various fields. Based on our Dutch standards it is fair to assume that the Netherlands will remain one of the preferred, if not the best country, to operate your file sharing service from. The Netherlands is viewed as the gateway to Europe. For Internet file sharing services, the Netherlands might very well prove to be the gateway to the world.

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I tell Burrows that if he is willing to submit to an interview, I am willing to review his book at length in The Washington Post. The only catch, I said, is that I am going to say that it is, in my professional judgment, the worst novel ever published in the English language.
Silence.
"My review will reach 2 million people," I said.
"Okay," he said.

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Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a staff member of the National Security Council during the Nixon administration, said there has been a natural progression in attitudes overseas. "It was antiwar, not anti-American. Now it's anti-Bush, not anti-American," he said. "That image is stuck in people's consciousness."

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After receiving an anonymous call of an "inappropriate snow figure," Lynn was told by a Kent police officer to remove the breast of the snow woman or face possible disorderly conduct charges. Lynn decided to cover the breast of her snow woman with a cloth, a decision that satisfied the police officer.

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Sony has today announced its first foray into the compact prosumer market since the excellent DSC-S85. The DSC-V1 is designed to battle against Canon's hugely popular PowerShot G3, Nikon's Coolpix 4500 and Olympus's C-5050 Zoom. The DSC-V1 has a five megapixel sensor and a four times 'Carl Zeiss' zoom lens. It has all the major manual controls you would expect, as well as various shared enhancements including MPEG VX (VGA, 16 fps), USB 2.0, color saturation / tone adjustment, Smart Zoom and MS Pro support. All this plus a flash hot-shoe, metallic case and it measures just 99 x 65 x 57 mm (3.9 x 2.6 x 2.2 in) - about the same size (from the front) as Canon's PowerShot S330 (Digital IXUS 330).

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The reason I love The Simpsons? Not just the hilarity, not just the even-handed way they skewer everybody. What gets me is that alone of all the shows in the history of television, let alone animated programs, they've managed to present both an amazing amount of sexual habits and preferences, and a married couple who have never strayed. Homer and Marge have both been tempted in their time together, but their love is more than a match for such petty delights. It's inspiring, it is, and it's good to know that a balding fat man can elicit such joy in his bride. God knows Homer needs to be good at something...

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Turns out that nearly half -- 46 percent to be precise -- of the duct tape sold in this country is manufactured by a company in Avon, Ohio. And the founder of that company, that would be Jack Kahl, gave how much to the Republican National Committee and other GOP committees in the 2000 election cycle? Would that be more than $100,000?

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Bush and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer went out of their way Thursday to cite a new survey by "Blue-Chip economists" that the economy would grow 3.3 percent this year if the president's tax cut proposal becomes law.
That was news to the editor who assembles the economic forecast. "I don't know what he was citing," said Randell E. Moore, editor of the monthly Blue Chip Economic Forecast, a newsletter that surveys 53 of the nation's top economists each month.

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