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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