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laissez-faire

(Encyclopedia) laissez-fairelaissez-fairelĕsˌā fârˈ [key] [Fr.,=leave alone], in economics and politics, doctrine that an economic system functions best when there is no interference by government.…

Goodbye, Napster

Appeals court rules against Internet music site Napster by David Johnson   This article was posted on July 28, 2000. Napster co-founder, Shawn Fanning, after a federal judge shut down…

September 1999 News and Events

1999 News Month-By-Month World NATO and U.N. Agree on K.L.A. Role (Sept. 2): Part of Kosovo Liberation Army will be allowed to survive as lightly armed civilian emergency force. Middle East…

Men of Niagara

by W. E. B. DuBois The men of the Niagara Movement coming from the toil of the year's hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread…

June 1997 News and Events

1997 News Month-By-MonthWorldFrench Vote for Leftists (June 1): In setback to President Chirac, Socialists and Communists gain allies. Vote is a mandate to reject economic austerity and press…

November 2001 News and Events

World Five Bosnian Serbs Convicted (Nov. 2): Found guilty by UN tribunal for actions in notorious prison system set up by Serbs during Bosnian war. Moderate Protestant Reelected in Ulster (Nov. 6…