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Re: [noise]Re: The grey lady puts on some boots and rides a horseman or two...
Another interesting connection is that John Aristotle Phillips
is the former Princeton student who designed an atom bomb
as his junior physics project. (He wasn't a brilliant physicist -
he was trying to save his grade point average by doing a good paper :-)
Senator Feinstein, of course, is a leader in the "Bomb Info Off Lists"
movement....
At 07:45 AM 8/22/96 -0700, Declan wrote:
...
>I met Polly's father at the "Kids off Lists" press conference in front of
>the Capitol in June. He's an irascable fellow, and there's more to the
>story than you might think at first.
...
>http://www.muckraker.com/muckraker/96/24/index3a.html
....
>The report drove Representative Bob Franks (R-New Jersey) and Senator
>Dianne Feinstein (D-California) to introduce the "Children's Privacy
>Protection and Parental Empowerment Act." The idea is to keep kids'
>names off direct marketing lists. It's a good concept, but it's short
>on focus and long on fear - the fear that gathering such information
>can lead to child abuse or worse.
......
>But there's a subplot here. The actual driving force and financial
>backer of KOL is John Phillips, who runs Aristotle Publishing, a
>political software company in Washington, DC. Phillips, as it turns
>out, has been in a kind of run-and-shoot legal battle with Donnelley
>for the past five years, according to an article in the Washington City
>Paper, an alternative weekly published in DC.
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