29 August 2001

  • Violence intensifies on both sides in West Bank; U.S. calls for Israeli withdrawl from Beit Jala.
  • NATO calls arms-gathering in Macedonia a success; government sees it as a "theatrical harvest."
  • Australian troops board Norwegian freighter loaded with 438 refugees.
  • U.S. warns Israel that use of American-made weapons must be in self-defense.
  • The fight in Washington over broadband has Bell companies and AT&T lobbying like mad.
  • Industry Standard owes $10.4M to its 20 largest creditors.
  • 459M people have Internet access at home.
  • Novelist Richard Russo finds his characters by following small-town routines.
  • An analysis for why the U.S. failed to respond to Rwandan genocide.
  • How to lane-split with a bike.
  • Correction: A TMN headline yesterday labeled Alberto Fujimori as a former President of Japan; he is a former President of Peru.