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| | December 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The United States Congress passes the Can Spam Act of 2003. | | | Following electoral success in the Northwest Territories general election, 2003 Joe Handley is unopposed for election as premier of the Northwest Territories by the legislature. | | | The Federal Bureau of Investigation issues a memo instructing police to be alert of people carrying almanacs, stating that information in these reference works could be used to aid in the planning of terrorist attacks. |
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| | Afghanistan timeline December 2003 - definition of Afghanistan timeline December 2003 in Encyclopedia |
| | During the fourth day of the Loya Jirga of 2003 a proposal made by interim president Hamid Karzai to confine debate to a draft constitution that would give the president sweeping powers was met with protests and interruptions from delegates, mainly supporters of the Northern Alliance. | | | Afghan President Hamid Karzai stated during a press conference that he would not run in future elections if the constitutional loya jirga opted for a prime minister as well as a president. | | | Also Malalai Juya denounced some of her colleagues as war criminals, prompting some delegates to demanded her removal from the council and sparking some death threats. |
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| | Slant Point: December 2003 Archives |
| | The Mark Geragos of France is stepping up efforts to defend Saddam in a court of law. | | | Being a Republican and mostly conservative blogger, I find my cohorts in blogland rallying to the defense of free speech after the Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance limitations. | | | A UN committee headed by Chilean ambassador Heraldo Munoz issues a report on the progress of sanctions against Al Qaeda. |
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| | December 12, 2003 |
| | The number of autistic children in one West Michigan county is on the rise. | | | December 8, 2003 - Commonwealth Meeting Ends With Zimbabwe Row - IRIN via www.allafrica.com | | | Flu in the West: Clinics Filled, Schools Empty |
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| | Cursor Link Archives, December, 2003 |
| | In early December, the Detroit News reported on a study which found that just 23 post-9/11 terrorism-related cases have led to prison sentences of five years or more, "about the same number as in the two years before the attacks." | | | The Black Commentator calls a December 7 speech by Howard Dean, "the most important statement on race in American politics by a mainstream white politician in nearly 40 years." | | | The Center for American Progress debunks claims made in a White House document titled "2003: A Year of Accomplishment for the American People." |
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| | Newmark's Door: December 2003 Archives |
| | Cliff Sjogren, former director of admission at the University of Michigan (1973-1988) and dean of admission and financial aid at the University of Southern California (1989-1993), now 75 and retired, presents an original, profound proposal for reforming college admissions, "A Radical Plan For A Simplification of the College Admission Process." Among his ideas: | | | Tyler Cowen notes the extraordinary goings-on at William & Mary and concludes, "I expect that over time, for better or worse, many state universities will in effect become privatized. | | | Richard Posner, interesting as usual, presents his solution to how the law should treat gay marriages. |
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| | News Releases - Office of the First Minister & Deputy First Minister |
| | The Secretary of State, assisted by his team of Northern Ireland Office Ministers has assumed responsibility for the direction and control of the Northern Ireland Departments. | | | 10 December 2003 - Law On Religious And Political Discrimination Strengthened | | | 2 December 2003 - Public Appointments — Forthcoming Vacancies |
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| | GamersCircle :: December :: 2003 |
| | Wayne Hsieh, one of Asustek Computer’s founders and the largest shareholder, resigned from the board and left his post as vice president of the manufacturing division last Friday and wrote an emotional email to former colleagues yesterday explaining his reasons to leave. | | | The winners will be determined by Web voters at the TV special's official homepage. | | | And, since you're a superhero, you can do all sorts of otherworldly things, and the particle effects for that are well-implemented, even in the beta state. |
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| | ringtonia.com: December 2003 |
| | For Textually 2003 - The Year in Review, here is a roundup of this year's ringtone highlights, some random stats, innovative ideas and... | | | MERRY CHRISTMAS I'll be offline for a few days, until Monday December 29. | | | The Mobile Data Association predict £ 70m ($ 120.7 million) worth of ringtones will be sold in 2003, up from £ 40m ($ 69 million)... |
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| | NathanNewman.org: December 2003 Archives |
| | The New Jersey Supreme Court granted Pelletier the right to sue Skanska in 2003. | | | Skanska had argued that Pelletier shouldn't be able to sue them because he worked for one of its subcontractors. | | | Minimum Wage as Campaign Issue - Finally, a bit of press on a candidate making raising the minimum wage a core campaign promise, in this case... |
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| | Microsoft Monitor: December 2003 Archives |
| | I have to ding HP for the 60-day trial. | | | This despite Microsoft’s official no security patch release plans for December. | | | As I blogged in October, knowing that Office 2003 would release this year, many Office customers made the decision whether or not to upgrade last year. |
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| | December 2003 Articles |
| | Rush to Judgment: The Wen Ho Lee-ing of Capt. James Yee | | | In Samarra - for which read Fantasyville - he was shot in the back as he tried to protect himself with his parents in his home in the Al-Jeheriya district of the ancient Abbasid city. | | | Father Bill O'Donnell's life was devoted to "speaking truth to power" and he did it with a sparkle in his eye and a smile on his face. |
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| | News Releases - Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety |
| | The Secretary of State, assisted by his team of Northern Ireland Office Ministers has assumed responsibility for the direction and control of the Northern Ireland Departments. | | | 15 December 2003 - Appointments To The Mental Health Commision | | | 11 December 2003 - Minister Announces Outcome Of Consultation On GP Contract Legislation |
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| | Glutter(.org): December 2003 |
| | Beijing's high court had also declined to allow dissident He Depu to lodge an appeal against a November 6 ruling, which sentenced him to eight years in jail for releasing four essays on the Internet, it said. | | | Posted by: tyler at December 17, 2003 02:37 PM Richard. | | | The death penalty is too good for this man, he should be paraded around and humuiliated as much as possible - by his own country men. |
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| | 2003 § December § Unqualified Offerings |
| | Unqualified Successes 2003 - It’s that time of year, as it has been twice before. | | | Unqualified Fanboy Successes 2003 - This blog’s split personalities fought over who got to go first, and the comics geek won. | | | Once again: new categories are asterisked; repeat categories will list previous winners in parentheses; the Unqualified Successes are not blog awards as such - while some awards go to blogs, others don’t, and you should assume I love you even […] |
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| | TAPPED: December 2003 Archives |
| | The diplomatic history here has been somewhat forgotten amidst the trenchant political discourse, but here's what The New York Times reported about the negotiations for a second UN resolution on March 14, 2003: | | | The White House said today that President Bush would meet on Sunday with the leaders of Britain and Spain, his staunchest allies in demanding that Iraq disarm, to determine if there is a last-ditch way to bring the United Nations together on an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. | | | (The Kwanzaa 2003 presidential message was followed by installments for Christmas and Hanukkah, in case anyone was wondering.) |
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| | » 2003 » December The Blog Herald: more blog news more often |
| | Remarkably a few facts we were unaware of were mentioned: Andrew Sullivan raised $100,000 USD last year from his blog, Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points memo […] | | | They state “Blogging: 2003 was the year in which weblogging — a.k.a. | | | BBC show names 2003 the “Year of the Blogs” |
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| | Dance Paradise - web-log.nl |
| | Number of valid voters: 1733 from dec 4 to dec 21 | | | or her votes, selected his personal top 5 of 2003 of tracks, | | | This list is a true and accurate reflection of all votes and purely |
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| | Print on Demand: December 2003 Archives |
| | Joel Quadracci, Quad/Graphics' Senior Vice President of Sales and Administration, was named a new director. | | | Hatch is also a corporate senior vice president, appointed October 1999. | | | Burke's election as Quad/Graphics' Chairman of the Board was confirmed at the December 19 Board meeting at which time Joel Quadracci, Quad/Graphics' Senior Vice President of Sales and Administration, was named a new director. |
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| | Wendy Knits!: December 2003 Archives |
| | What did Wendy bring to her office Christmas party last year? | | | Which according to Section 11(c) of the Yarn Diet Act of 2003 is allowable. | | | The Government is open, so off to work I go. |
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| | AIDS Epidemic Update 2003 |
| | Launch of the 2005 AIDS Epidemic Update, Speech by Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, New Delhi, India, 21 November 2005 | | | The annual AIDS Epidemic Update reports on the latest developments in the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. | | | With maps and regional summaries, the 2003 edition provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic's scope and human toll, explores new trends in the epidemic's evolution, and features a special section examining stigma and discrimination. |
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| | weaksauce: December 2003 Archives |
| | President Reagan cared desperately, obsessively about the American hostages in Beirut. | | | Spoon Sports of Japan has a long history of modifying and racing Hondas. | | | Suprisingly, the Honda chassis they are using is not the RSX (DC5) or the new Civic Si (EP3) but the European Accord Type-R (CL7), known in the US as the Acura TSX. |
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| | The Scoop » 2003 » December |
| | The Star’s review of about 100 of the roughly 31,000 delinquent properties in Jackson County found that nearly one-third were granted waivers totaling more than $180,000 since 1999.” State officials questioned whether waiving such fees was legal, and the county is now reviewing its practices. | | | Tim Smith of the Greenville News reviewed spending on travel by state employees during the first 10 months of 2003, finding a total of $3.7 million in out of state trips even as services were cut in departments due to a budget crisis. | | | Tom Weir and Erik Brady of USA Today, with assistance from database editor MaryJo Sylwester, combed through media database services to collect information on athletes who have faced allegations of sexual assault since 1992. |
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| | Netcraft: December 2003 Archives |
| | This type of loan must be repaid prior to pre-bankruptcy financial obligations. | | | Morris Miller joined Rackspace Managed Hosting in 1998 as chief operating officer, and now serves as Managing Director as well as co-chairman along with Graham Weston. | | | Posted by Rich Miller at 04:31 PM UTC on Dec 12, 2003 in Security |
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| | Deinonychus antirrhopus: December 2003 Archives |
| | This is the last entry for 2003 for the Carnival of the Capitalists. | | | At its core, the issue with Bush's "16 little words" in his 2003 State of the Union address was really a debate about who got what intelligence memo when and whether it was actually read. | | | But Drezner drops the ball with regards to the Defense Deptarment memo barring non-coalition members from recieve contracts and the timing of its release with the push for Iraqi Debt relief. |
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| | December 2003 |
| | After looking at it for years I finally broke down and ordered myself a couple of boxes of what is known as the betamax of construction sets: Fischertechnik. | | | Has a longer (or more labyrinthine) sentence ever been written? | | | As I delve deeper into the world of Lovecraft and other writers of the 19th and early 20th century I'm becoming more and more impressed by the role of the mythos -- the fact that various authors set their works in "shared worlds" referencing the same names for gods, locations, and artificts. |
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| | Peaktalk - December 2003 Archives |
| | I scored a nomination in the category “Best Foreign Blog” so if you want, check into Kevin’s well designed ballot box and throw in a vote for the Peaktalker, judging from the interim results I could use a few votes. | | | There’s no way I am going to dislodge Merde in France from collecting the Best Foreign Blog award, but there still is time to vote for Peaktalk and help it to at least an honorable defeat in the 2003 Weblog Awards. | | | Andrew Sullivan is having his annual pledge week and I am contemplating what to contribute. |
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| | Holy Shmoly! |
| | Hoffmania has a great picture of Bush, no, err, Saddam, no, Bush, serving turkey to the troops! | | | wow, gah, yeah, you had a tear up 2003 too… here’s to a mindblowing blissfeeding 2004! | | | I think you can use the space bar to ’scroll’ through the current message. |
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| | December 2003 |
| | The press release is right: it had to happen. | | | The sounding element here is dense microtonal drone - Veliotis uses his custom-built bachbow to play three, sometimes all four, cello strings at once - but Malfatti would be the first to argue that the silences are just as important. | | | The bad news, folks, is Joëlle Léandre is likely to return to the States again, which means there'll soon be even more albums of this quality hitting the streets; the good news is you'll be able to enjoy this spectacular musicianship for the rest of your life. |
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| | WhatReallyHappened.com: December 2003 Archives |
| | This ultimatum represents the summation of the Israeli government's skillful media strategy throughout 2003. | | | Last week, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon declared that if the Palestinians did not soon take significant steps to curb "violence", he would begin a unilateral "separation plan" to disengage entirely from any negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. | | | Just one short year ago, at the start of 2003, the handwriting of an illegal and immoral war was being clearly scribbled on the wall. |
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| | Deltoid » 2003 » December |
| | Yet, both references clearly stated that much more than murder was included in the reports that they used from the Baghdad morgue. | | | Reviewer: A reader from Washington, DC This book is a fast read, and it serves a useful niche taking the research done by others and presenting the work in such a way that it is easily understood by a wide audience. | | | The Blurbs Say It All, March 16, 2003 |
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| | 2003 December archive at Binary Bonsai |
| | I'll see you in the new year, have a good one. | | | Published late in the morning on Monday, December 29th, 2003 | | | Plenty more thoughts on the Powerbook are slowly making their way to the surface and will probably end up here in a day or two. |
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| | Engineeringtalk: the Newsletter |
| | In May 2003 the UK Government published proposals to legislate against death caused by management failure. | | | For the seventh successive year, Southern Manufacturing will bring together hundreds of exhibitors with thousands of visitors when it opens its doors on 18th and 19th February 2004. | | | Serigraphia Formiginese has won an award for its work using Capillex CP in the launch of Campari Mixx. |
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| | The LambCutlet Disorganisation » 2003 » December |
| | Come 9th of December, I’ll be working at RS Components as a Media Content Editor. | | | It’s going to be a pretty fun packed role, since the 6 month long project I’ll be working on is a major core revamp of how RS Components presents information to the public to sell it’s wares and to lay down some key systems and methodology in work for future projects within the company. | | | As people seem to have been referencing through this post to one of the three segments… I’ve split them of into entries in their own right: |
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| | MBR: Internet Bookwatch, December 2003 |
| | Flight Patterns is a compilation of the best of her work and will admirably serve to introduce an outstanding Wisconsin poet to an appreciate generation of readers. | | | Micro-soft Office Access 2003: The Complete Reference also provides an understanding of basic database concepts as well as intermediate to advanced database design and programming. | | | Noel Jerke's Microsoft Office Access 2003 Professional Results (0072229659, 400 pp, $34.99) is an advanced guide which authoritatively shows how to create and manage a robust Access database. |
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| | somefoolwitha.com » 2003 » December |
| | Ive not been to Pixelgirl for a while and Id forgot how truly great the desktops (wallpapers for PC fiends) there are. | | | Posted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2003, early evening. | | | Posted on Saturday, December 27th, 2003, early evening. |
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| | December 2003 · MarketingVOX |
| | « November 2003 : DECEMBER 2003 : January 2004 »; | | | At Least One Spammer Says He'll Comply with Can-Spam | | | Acquisition Flurry of 2003 Sign of Maturing Industry |
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| | seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog: December 2003 Archives |
| | To me, though, nothing about Office 2003 is as exciting or as immediately useful as XML support. | | | In fact, in my opinion XML support is the most dramatic change in Office since Word and Excel first got bundled together for marketing purposes oh-so-many years ago. | | | Woody's Office Watch, one of the newsletters produced by Woody Leonhard for users of Microsoft products, recently published a good series of articles on XML and how it's incorporated into the professional edition of Microsoft Office 2003. |
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| | aMMusing » 2003 » December |
| | One of the things that has made 2003 truly remarkable for me is that I have never before had so many friends, acquaintances and relatives simultaneously going through the same thing: […] | | | I made it pretty clear last year that I’m no fan of Christmas. | | | I’ve been reticent to blog about this topic until now, but I’ve come to the point where I feel the need to do so. |
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| | Monthly Calendar |
| | List of years that use the same calendar as 2003 | | | Customize this calendar - change appearance, period and more | | | Printer-friendly format - look at the Printing Help page to get better print results |
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| | Choosing a Digital Stage Piano - December 2003 - Including Reviews of the Korg SP-200 and Logitech Z-3 |
| | At the age of five and a half in mid 2003, my oldest daughter started pestering her mom and me (okay, bugging us nearly daily) for piano lessons. | | | I went to a few music stores in September of 2003, where the salespeople have said good things about models from Yamaha, Roland, Korg, and Kurzweil. | | | Finally, at the end of 2003, Casio introduced the PX100, a hammer-action digital piano with speakers, key splitting, multiple sounds, and even a mini-sequencer—for about $625 Cdn street price, brand new. |
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| | Harper's Index for December 2003 (Harpers.org) |
| | This is Harper's Index for December 2003, a Harper's Index, published Thursday, January 1, 2004. | | | From the teaching materials for federally funded high-school abstinence programs, collected for a report commissioned by Representative Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and published in December 2004. | | | It is part of Harper's Index for 2003, which is part of The Harper's Index, which is part of Harpers.org. |
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| | December 2003 New Arrivals |
| | December Shipping Special - US Mail Economy Ground Shipping. | | | This month only, $2.00 for the first item and $1.50 for each additional item. | | | Browse through our huge list of new software titles added in December 2003. |
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| | Overclockers Australia - December 2003 |
| | Designtechnica walk us through their favorite products from the year 2003. | | | Microsoft "accidentally" included a font in office 2003 that included two swastikas! | | | It seems that IE isn't the only browser which leaves the door open! |
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| | December 2003 |
| | I collected sixpence every week from relatives and friends all year, and in December, I would order these great big boxes of assorted chocolates. | | | We opened them Christmas day and spread the boxes over the rooms for anyone to nibble on. | | | Thelma was especially excited to tell about the chocolate catalog club, “That was my job. |
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| | ...:::mikecpeck:::...: December 2003 |
| | MacMinute states that Apple sold 1.79 iPods per minute in 2003. | | | I'm glad to know that I am one of the 939,000 lucky new users this year. | | | Look at how easy it would be to hook up the pod on the go. |
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| | Ned Batchelder: December 2003 |
| | During Decembers, though, there's a new way to find unnoticed possibilities: the Perl Advent Calendar. | | | ¶ Tate's 2003 Web Advent Calendar, a sweet story about a cat, one day at a time. | | | Every day, a new flap is enabled, revealing an interesting contribution to CPAN. |
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| | Ensight - Jeremy Wright’s Personal Blog » 2003 » December |
| | BBStats report: Bad Behavior has blocked 7032 access attempts in the last 7 days. | | | I figured I’d just do one long big post. | | | Ensight - Jeremy Wright’s Personal Blog » 2003 » December |
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| | Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Official website |
| | I play the clarinet and I hope to join the band someday...but I'm still young so I have to keep practicing! | | | I can't want for December 4th because I get to come and see the band LIVE!! |
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| | Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Official website |
| | What an amazing show that was on the 25th at Mohegan Sun, I saw TSO back in December 2002 with my friends. | | | I loved the show so much this time that I am going again and bringing my friends and family for Dec. 16th at Hartford Civic Center Show!! |
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