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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: November 02, 2003 - November
08, 2003 Archives 11/04/2003 08:44 AM
modified a transcript of President Bush's remarks .. scrubbing its transcripts .. Josh Marshall

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Execs & Accounts for May 14, 2004

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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: October 26, 2003 - November
01, 2003 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: October 26, 2003 - November
01, 2003 Archives 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
The White Sheet Republicans are At It Again in Kentucky! 10/28 .. attempts at voter suppression .. more than enough money .. Josh Marshall reports .. asked for donations .. This is very ugly .. all over

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COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Media Preview
Panel To Take Place At The Aladdin Hotel
Sunday, November 16, 2003

COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 Media Preview
Panel To Take Place At The Aladdin Hotel
Sunday, November 16, 2003 11/04/2003 05:19 AM
COMDEX Nov 4 2003 3:59AM ET

Office 2003 Critical Update: November
11, 2003

Office 2003 Critical Update: November
11, 2003 11/05/2003 12:11 PM

November 03, 2003

November 03, 2003 11/03/2003 02:32 PM

Fog Creek's website has been redone to use our new Sam Sherwood-designed logo. The cutting edge page design is thanks to superstar web designer Dave Shea, famous for the CSS garden and the eye-popping new Mozilla home page, with additional programming and graphics by Fog Creek's own Dmitri Kalmar. It's about 99% standards-compliant (with the exception a couple of stray FONT tags left over from old content that hasn't been updated... oh the horror!).

November 14, 2003

November 14, 2003 11/14/2003 07:32 PM

Time for the next Book of the Month.

Almost any argument about managing the software development process inevitably deteriorates into anecdote-ping-pong. “We did wawa and everyone quit.”

“Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Company X? They wawa regularly and their stock is up 20%!”

If you have even the slightest bit of common sense, you should ask: “Where's the data? If I'm going to switch to Intense Programming I want to see proof that the extra money spent on dog kennels and bird cages is going to pay for itself in increased programmer self-esteem. Show me hard data!”

And, of course, we have none.

One set of people will tell you you gotta have private offices with walls and a door that closes. Another set of extremos will tell you everyone has to be in a room together, shoulder-to-shoulder. Neither of them have any hard data whatsoever, where by “hard data” I mean “data that wouldn't be laughed out of a sixth-grade science classroom.” The truth is, you can't honestly compare the productivity of two software teams unless they are trying to build exactly the same thing under exactly the same circumstances with the exact same human individuals, who have been somehow cloned so they don't learn anything the first time through the experiment.

Tom DeMarco was so frustrated at the inherent impossibility of providing any kind of hard data that he went so far as to write a novel in which he fantasizes about a bizarre land in which programmers are so cheap you actually can do experiments where, say, half the people have offices and half the people have cubicles.

But we don't have the data. We don't have any data. You can give us anecdotes left and right about how methodology X worked or didn't work, but you can't prove that when it worked it wasn't just because of one really, really good programmer on the team, and you can't prove that when it failed is wasn't just because the company was in the process of going bankrupt and everybody was too demoralized to do anything at all, Aeron chairs notwithstanding.

But don't give up hope. We do have the collective wisdom of fifty years of building software to draw from. Or at least, it's somewhere. Your typical startup with three pals from college may not exactly have the collective wisdom, so they're going to reinvent things from scratch that IBM figured out in 1961, or go bankrupt failing to reinvent them. Too bad, because they could have read Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, by Robert L. Glass, the best summary of what the software profession should have agreed upon by now. Here are just a few examples from the 55 facts and 10 fallacies in the book:

• The most important factor in software work is not the tools and techniques used by the programmers, but rather the quality of the programmers themselves.
• Adding people to a late project makes it later.
• Reuse-in-the-small (libraries of subroutines) began nearly 50 years ago and is a well-solved problem.
• Reuse-in-the-large (components) remains a mostly unsolved problem, even though everyone agrees it is important and desirable.

You can read the others in the table of contents on Amazon. One of the best things about the book is that it has sources for each fact and fallacy, so you can go back and figure out why we collectively believe that, say, code inspection is valuable but cannot and should not replace testing. This is bound to be particularly helpful when you need ammunition for your arguments with people in suits making absurd demands (“Can we make a baby in 1 month if we hire 9 mothers?”).

November 06, 2003

November 06, 2003 11/07/2003 12:56 AM

Two questions and a font

Question one, for you telecom mavens out there. If you buy DSL service in New York from Covad, aren't they just going to get Verizon to install the actual DSL circuit? If so... why is it cheaper to get it from Covad?

Yes, we seem to be in the market for a new DSL provider. And I'm tired of playing the blame game where your DSL provider blames everything on Verizon and Verizon blames everything on the DSL provider, so I'd be willing to pay the monopoly tax if it meant when our DSL went down there was nobody left to blame. If you know whether Covad uses Verizon, post an answer here.

Question two, for you reliable SQL Server mavens out there. Suppose I wanted to build a Win2K-based web service using SQL Server to store the data. But I'm a reliability nut. So obviously I'll use industrial strength servers with RAID, two power supplies and network cards, etc, and they'll live in secure colocation facilities.

To further minimize failure points, I'll have a hot backup. But the twist is that I figured as long as I'm paying for a hot backup, it would be more reliable if it was somewhere else, say, on the other coast.

So here's the plan I'm working on. Server A in New York, with IIS and SQL Server. Server B in Vancouver, with IIS and SQL Server. Server A is somehow "writing through" any database changes to server B. I know I can do this with transaction log shipping; is this a good way to do it? Is there a better way?

Then if Server A blows up, I simply ask my ISP to route the packets intended for Server A to Server B. (I assume they can do this if it's their backbone).

What do you think of this scheme?

Might I please kindly request in advance that you do not suggest using Linux instead of Windows 2003. Yes, I concede that Linux is "more secure," but not when I'm the one pushing the buttons. Last time a flaw was discovered in Windows, it took me two clicks to patch it. Last time a flaw was discovered in SSH, it took me four hours of compiling and messing around to patch it. I apologize but I don't have the skilz to keep a Linux box secure, so please, let's talk about how to make this particular configuration reliable, not about whether Linux is a better OS than Windows. Or, actually, if you do want to talk about whether Linux is more secure than Windows, do so here.

And a font

Back in the days when I did Mac development (System 6) the biggest monitors available for the Mac were maybe 9", and the only way to see a reasonable amount of code on screen was to use a tiny font. Now that I have two 18" LCD panels, the only way to see a reasonable amount of code on screen is to use a tiny font. The world is awash in lovely TrueType fonts but none of them are monospaced, which is a nuisance for programming because things which should line up won't.

Fortunately, I have found ProFont, and all is well again.

November 07, 2003

November 07, 2003 11/10/2003 11:08 PM
Toronto group forming. Any others?

November 22, 2003

November 22, 2003 12/02/2003 01:29 AM

Tidbits

My incoming spam is running at over 200 junk emails a day, but SpamBayes is catching them all, with virtually no false positives. Bayesian filtering, invented by Paul Graham and available in many open source implementations, is the best answer yet.

November 30, 2003

November 30, 2003 12/02/2003 01:29 AM

I spent the long weekend grinding through the backlog of Joel on Software translations. There are a bunch of new articles in various languages including new sections for Esperanto and Greek. All in all there are 264 translations in progress in 32 languages thanks to 242 volunteers around the world. 177 translations are complete and have already been posted.

There are a few articles, already translated, which just need copy editors before I can post them. If you read and write one of these languages fluently and are willing to help out, I'd really appreciate it! What's involved is just looking for typos and errors and improving the translation wherever possible. If I don't find anyone to edit the articles I will probably just go ahead and post them unedited but it would be nice to have a second set of eyes improving the quality of the translations.

Languages I need editors for: Chinese (Trad), Esperanto, Estonian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese (Port.), Russian, Swedish, and Tamil.

A frequently asked question: why bother with these translations? Surely any real programmer knows English! And my frequently answered answer: First of all, not every programmer knows English, and if they do, they may not know it that well, so they may not really enjoy reading things written in English if they don't have to. Second, even if the programmers have learned enough English to decipher online documentation, their pointy-haired bosses from management may not have.

Another frequent question: why not just use Babelfish or Google Language Tools or another similar translation tool? Answer: They are seriously little. You cannot include/understand simply the exit. Er, what I meant to say was, they are seriously inadequate. The quality of translations produced by automatic software is so horrible that you really can't understand the output. Try asking Google to translate http://french.joelonsoftware.c om from French to English for some real howlers. "Then why does nobody make planning? Two principal reasons. Firstly, it is really difficult. Secondly, nobody believes that that is worth the sorrow of it. Why give so much difficulty to be worked on a planning if it is known that it will not be correct?"

SMS 2003 FAQ: Software Distribution
Accounts

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Accounts 04/12/2004 04:47 PM

SMS 2003 FAQ: Installed Accounts and
Groups

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K5 Monthly Update, November 2003

K5 Monthly Update, November 2003 12/04/2003 01:20 AM
Pay no attention to that timestamp above. To be perfectly honest, I have little to say about K5 for November. Besides the fiction contest, which I'm sure you're all aware of already, nothing very interesting happened here behind the scenes. So instead I'm going to use this bully pulpit to call for a vote on an issue which has come up with increasing frequency and which I do not know the right answer to. The short question is, should people be given the tools to delete everything they ever posted here if and when they decide to leave, and if so, how? Read on for more background, and please vote. I will hold to what the vote shows two weeks from today. Update [2003-12-4 0:39:38 by rusty]: See update at the bottom of the story for an additonal point.

IAR Bits and Bytes for November 6, 2003

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November 2003 Web Server Survey

November 2003 Web Server Survey 11/06/2003 10:03 AM
Apache has a significant percentage gain this month as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a domain parking system serving responses for over one million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously. Barely weeks ago its largest rival, Network Solutions made a similar switch from Microsoft-IIS back to SunOne, nee Netscape-Enterprise, for its own domain parking system. During 2001 and the first half of 2002 several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS. Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform, and Microsoft-IIS share is now in line with its long term pre-summer 2001 level of around 20%.

TOP500 List for November 2003

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TOP500™ SuperComputer Sites List for November 2003
http://www.top500.org/list s/2003/11/

The 22nd TOP500 List will be introduced during the Supercomputer Conference (SC2003) in Phoenix, AZ. The BOF session will be held Tuesday, November 18, 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Room 36-37 at the SC2003 conference. A comprehensive list of the top 500 supercomputers throughout the world.

"TOP500 List for November 2003"

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This Week on perl5-porters (17-23
November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (17-23
November 2003) 11/25/2003 10:31 PM
Due to my laziness, or perhaps to the lack of traffic on perl5-porters this week, this summary will be rather short, but hopefully long enough to provide your weekly dose of perl core information. Read on.

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16
November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (10-16
November 2003) 11/17/2003 03:03 PM
For some reason, (maybe the approach of mod_perl 2), one of the main topics this week was interpreter cloning and the problems it may cause. But the release of perl 5.6.2 is an event that is not to be neglected. Read on.

Linux Advisory Watch - November 7th 2003

Linux Advisory Watch - November 7th 2003 11/07/2003 10:00 AM
This week, advisories were released for bugzilla, apache, fileutils, postgresql, CUPS, and thttpd. The distributors include Conectiva, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Linux, Gentoo, Immunix, Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, and SuSE.

This Week on perl5-porters (3-9 November
2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (3-9 November
2003) 11/10/2003 11:32 PM
This week was undoubtedly a maintenance-oriented week, as it has seen the release of perl 5.8.2, and of perl 5.6.2 RC1. But of course and as usual this wasn't the only topic on the always active p5p list. Read below for the full details.

Google Update Florida - November 15,
2003

Google Update Florida - November 15,
2003 11/15/2003 09:56 AM
With all the changes in the Google update process the last six months, it is hard to tell what is and isn't a major update. By-all-accounts, this appears to be a major update - it is an old school dance.

This Week on perl5-porters (24-30
November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (24-30
November 2003) 12/02/2003 01:03 AM
A quiet week for the Perl 5 porters, but some threads are worth noting. Notably, I have now a reason to mention Leon Brocard in the summary without appealing to any running joke.

Latest Bios and Drivers updates! -
November 06, 2003

Latest Bios and Drivers updates! -
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Apple Store Event on November 28th, 2003

Apple Store Event on November 28th, 2003 11/19/2003 08:03 AM
As previously hinted, Apple is planning a Special in-Store Event on Friday, November 28th. The Music oriented in-Store event is aimed to take advan...

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November 15, 2003

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CBS News | If I Were Bush's Speechwriter
... | November 3, 2003 08:36:15

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Linux Advisory Watch - November 14th
2003

Linux Advisory Watch - November 14th
2003 11/14/2003 09:13 AM
This week, advisories were released for thhtpd, cups, ethereal, mpg123, xinetd, hylafax, postgresql, conquest, epic4, glibc, and and zebra. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE.

This Week on perl5-porters (27 October /
2 November 2003)

This Week on perl5-porters (27 October /
2 November 2003) 11/03/2003 08:52 AM
The big news of the week is of course the first release candidate of perl 5.8.2, the problems it solves, and the new problems it causes.

Linux Advisory Watch - November 28th
2003

Linux Advisory Watch - November 28th
2003 12/02/2003 12:44 AM
This week, advisories were released for BIND, Ethereal, Glibc, Libnids, phpSysInfo, Stunnel, EPIC, iproute, Pan, and XFree86. The distributors include Guardian Digital's EnGarde Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Red Hat.

Blueprint For A Mess - New York Times
Magazine, November 2, 2003

Blueprint For A Mess - New York Times
Magazine, November 2, 2003 11/01/2003 03:06 PM
Despite administration claims, it is simply not true that no one could have predicted the chaos that ensued after the fall of Saddam Hussein... What went wrong was not that no one could know or that no one spoke out. What went wrong is that the voices of Iraq experts, of the State Department almost in its entirety and, indeed, of important segments of the uniformed military were ignored. As much as the invasion of Iraq and the rout of Saddam Hussein and his army was a triumph of planning and implementation, the mess that is postwar Iraq is a failure of planning and implementation (pdf). See also, from June 24, 2003: A marred follow-up to a brilliant military campaign by Tim Carney. (Added to illustrate a very slow learning curve indeed.)

Cumulative Security Update For Internet
Explorer November 2003

Cumulative Security Update For Internet
Explorer November 2003 11/11/2003 04:27 PM

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Jean Rougeron: The French (Internet)
Connection

Jean Rougeron: The French (Internet)
Connection 12/31/2003 08:30 PM
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Violence Spreads in Haiti; Toll Is Put
at 41

Violence Spreads in Haiti; Toll Is Put
at 41 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
An armed uprising spread to nearly a dozen towns in western and northern Haiti, the strongest challenge yet to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard 04/22/2004 05:20 PM
Aimez-vous Godard? That Is, If You've Actually Seen One Of His Films. Gilberto Perez's view of Godard is strictly personal, as all opinions of his work must be. It does highlight, however, how neglected the restless author's films have lately been. For people of my generation, he was absolutely essential. The supreme cineaste, both with an accent on the &quot;e&quot; (as a film-maker) and without (as a film enthusiast). Whatever became of the Nouve lle Vague? It seems to me that the contemporary cinema could well do with another blast.

"Tanna Jean"

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Creating a DVD for Wyclef Jean

Creating a DVD for Wyclef Jean 01/26/2004 04:13 PM
“The best DVDs will be made by directors who originate a concept, shoot it, post it and author it,” says Jim Swaffield. That’s how he created “The Preacher’s Son: Vibe Session,” starring hip-hop artist and former Fugees frontman Wyclef Jean. [Jan 23]

Jim Swaffield: Creating A DVD For Wyclef
Jean

Jim Swaffield: Creating A DVD For Wyclef
Jean 01/26/2004 06:31 PM
"This DVD is a comprehensive demonstration of Apple's pro capabilities and workflow from start to finish." By Bija Gutoff (Apple via MyAppleMenu)

Jean Paoli (co-creator of XML) on XML in
Office 11

Jean Paoli (co-creator of XML) on XML in
Office 11 11/17/2002 09:46 PM
Our goal is to enable end-users to use XML properly. The result is not for developers. We are for the masses. That's why we had to invent this mode where the XML guy or Web developer would be able to introduce a schema into something an end-user can understand, a template, and then the end-user is going to use that template. I know that in general the XML developers do not think about this kind of thing. But we are not here to enable XML developers to be happy creating XML. We are putting XML generation into the hands of people who do not understand XML at all.

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Jean Tourrilhes On Linux Wireless LAN

Jean Tourrilhes On Linux Wireless LAN 06/21/2004 02:19 PM

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, ICANN

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, ICANN 05/17/2004 07:42 AM
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"Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook"

"Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook" 09/27/2004 11:17 AM

"because Michael Moore is no Jean Paul
Sartre."

"because Michael Moore is no Jean Paul
Sartre." 06/27/2004 02:39 PM

XBurn 1.0 Osax from Jean-Baptiste Le
Stang

XBurn 1.0 Osax from Jean-Baptiste Le
Stang 12/25/2003 12:46 PM
Osax for Mac OS X10.2. XBurn is an osax that enables you to burn CDs or DVDs from AppleScript without using a third party application. XBurn is based on the DiscRecording framework provided by Apple.

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Nominating
Committee Chairman, ICANN

Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Nominating
Committee Chairman, ICANN 05/14/2004 12:18 PM
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Kathryn Jean Lopez on March for Women's
Lives on National Review Online

Kathryn Jean Lopez on March for Women's
Lives on National Review Online 04/27/2004 08:09 PM
"Pro-life is to Christianity as al Qaeda is to Islam." .. Katherine Jean Lopez on NRO

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European Premiere: French Prime
Minister's Jean-Pierre Raffarin First
Live Chat with Electorate by SMS & WAP

European Premiere: French Prime
Minister's Jean-Pierre Raffarin First
Live Chat with Electorate by SMS & WAP 05/28/2004 12:36 AM
Belga Direct Press Releases May 28 2004 3:23AM GMT

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Haiti Uprising Spreads As PM Seeks Help
(AP)

Haiti Uprising Spreads As PM Seeks Help
(AP) 02/17/2004 07:45 PM
AP - Haiti's prime minister warned Tuesday of an impending coup and appealed for international help to contend with a bloody uprising that has claimed 57 lives. But the United States and France expressed reluctance to send troops to put down the rebellion.

Scores Are Dead After Violence Spreads
in Iraq

Scores Are Dead After Violence Spreads
in Iraq 09/12/2004 09:41 PM
The attacks, the most widespread in months, seemed to demonstrate the growing power of the insurgency across the country.

Death Toll From Haiti Floods Tops 1,070
(AP)

Death Toll From Haiti Floods Tops 1,070
(AP) 09/23/2004 02:23 AM
AP - Trucks dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in this flood-ravaged city still littered with corpses, as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could double again.

Haiti Death Toll Hits 691 After Storm
(AP)

Haiti Death Toll Hits 691 After Storm
(AP) 09/21/2004 08:23 PM
AP - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 691 Tuesday, with 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.

Death Toll in Haiti Floods Rises to
1,650

Death Toll in Haiti Floods Rises to
1,650 09/26/2004 04:41 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 26 2004 7:36PM GMT

Haiti Flood Death Toll Could Reach 2,000
(AP)

Haiti Flood Death Toll Could Reach 2,000
(AP) 09/22/2004 09:01 PM
AP - Workers used dumptrucks to empty scores of bodies into a ditch Wednesday — the first mass grave for more than 800 flood victims — as bystanders shrieked and the government raised the toll to more than 1,070.

Haiti Storm Toll Tops 1,500; 900 Missing
(AP)

Haiti Storm Toll Tops 1,500; 900 Missing
(AP) 09/25/2004 11:38 AM
AP - The staggering death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne shot upward to an estimated 1,500 people Saturday, with 900 Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm drenched the homeless who are living on rooftops and sidewalks.

Haiti flood death toll nears 600

Haiti flood death toll nears 600 09/21/2004 01:19 AM
Flooding in Haiti kills at least 556 people in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, UN officials say.

Death Toll Nears 700 from Haiti Flooding
(Reuters)

Death Toll Nears 700 from Haiti Flooding
(Reuters) 09/21/2004 11:03 AM
Reuters - The death toll in Haiti from flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose above 660 on Tuesday and government officials were still struggling to reach areas cut off by flood waters.

Death Toll in Haiti Floods Rises to
1,650 (Reuters)

Death Toll in Haiti Floods Rises to
1,650 (Reuters) 09/26/2004 04:56 PM
Reuters - The death toll in disastrous flooding in Haiti has risen to some 1,650, with about 800 people still missing, a government official said on Sunday.

Dominican, Haiti Floods Death Toll Nears
2,000

Dominican, Haiti Floods Death Toll Nears
2,000 05/27/2004 01:41 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 27 2004 5:26AM GMT

Flood Toll Rises to 1,950 in Haiti and
Dominican Republic

Flood Toll Rises to 1,950 in Haiti and
Dominican Republic 05/27/2004 01:31 AM
More than 1,000 bodies were found in Mapou, a rural southeastern Haitian town where communications are poor.

Haiti Storm Toll Could Reach 2,000; Many
Are Still Stranded (Los Angeles Times)

Haiti Storm Toll Could Reach 2,000; Many
Are Still Stranded (Los Angeles Times) 09/23/2004 04:51 AM
Los Angeles Times - GONAIVES, Haiti — The death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne threatened to reach 2,000 Wednesday, as tens of thousands of survivors wailed for food and water from rooftops, where they were marooned by knee-deep moats of mud and sewage.

Violence Against Iraq Troops Takes Toll
(AP)

Violence Against Iraq Troops Takes Toll
(AP) 12/30/2004 09:40 PM
AP - Key measures of the level of insurgent violence against American forces in Iraq, numbers of dead, wounded and insurgent attacks, show the situation has gotten worse since the summer.

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