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RIAA defies new ruling

By April Seipp · Thursday, March 25, 2004

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed more lawsuits Tuesday against individuals who use peer-to-peer networks to download copyrighted music files for free, including some D.C.-area college students. A total of 532 people are included in this new round of lawsuits.

Satirical news no match for serious news

By Zehra Rizavi · Thursday, March 25, 2004

AU senior Nellie Ghandar settles back into the sofa and laughs as Jon Stewart, host of the "The Daily Show," describes in mock seriousness the signing of an interim constitution by the Iraqi Governing Council as the first step in the American "Operation Get Us the Hell Out of Here.

Metro Brief

By Kate Oczypok · Thursday, March 25, 2004

Metro brief on water filters being distributed in D.C.

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Photos highlight film festival

By Stokely Baksh | March 25

Conservationist and photographer Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, 37, remembers when she took the photo entitled "Breastfeeding" - the picture of a Cuban woman breastfeeding a small animal called a hutia. She recalls when she and two other conservationists were in the rural area of the Zapata region outside of Havana, Cuba, in 1999, when they came upon a town.

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Strossen speaks about rights, Ashcroft, gallbladder

By David Hodges | March 25

According to Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the only thing she and John Ashcroft have in common is that they have both had gallbladder surgery. On Tuesday, Strossen spoke at AU in Ward 1 about freedom, civil rights and the PATRIOT Act.

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Breaking News: McNair officially hired

By Keith F. Shovlin | March 25

Mike McNair, acting director of Public Safety, can put aside his acting career after being named the permanent director Thursday. Pat Kelshian, executive director of Risk Management and Safety Services, released a memo Thursday, announcing McNair's appointment after a four-month search to replace Colleen Carson, who left the University just prior to Thanksgiving.

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