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...drizzly Tuesday night, and six armed police are manning a checkpoint on one of the main access roads into seaside Cronulla, in Sydney's south. It works like this: an officer waves approaching cars to the side of the road, where an expressionless colleague with a torch takes over: "Hi. How are you? Where are you going?" There's a brief exchange, a license checked, whereupon the driver's either waved on or turned back. Nearly everyone is good-humored?some are clearly pleased to see the police out in force. But the officers are on edge...
...country out. "Gazprom is Putin and Putin is Gazprom. By taking this job, Schröder has made himself a salesman for Putin's politics," alleges Reinhard Bütikofer, a leader of Germany's Greens. Now there are calls for a code of conduct governing former politicians' access to the private sector. Schröder brushed off the criticism as "a lot of nonsense," reportedly suggesting he might sue one German tabloid for allegedly overstating his salary. Still, Russia seems to be courting pols in the West. Reports claim Putin earlier this month offered the chairmanship of Russian state...
...profitable brewery-that was 'honorable and unexceptionable, like so much of Canada' ... In the late '70s, Black found his true calling as a Toronto financier. He stitched his family holdings into a conglomerate with interests in mining, retailing and oil as well as journalism. He revels in the access he enjoyed to Canada's 'elites,' even as he gives some of his dinner companions the back of his hand. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he says, turned Canada 'into a people of whining, politically conformist welfare addicts' ... He describes the late Robert Maxwell, kleptocratic owner of the Daily Mirror...
...times. “You don’t have to go to the website,” Quinn said. “This saves me valuable seconds.” Malan also developed the original Shuttleboy, a Unix program on fas.harvard.edu, in 1998. This program allows users to access full route information. Malan wrote in an e-mail that he conceived of the idea after taking Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science” and Computer Science 51: “Introduction to Computer Science II”. “He [Shuttleboy] was actually...
...least one senator has vowed to filibuster the measure, and a bipartisan group of senators, including four Republicans and five Democrats, released a letter Wednesday criticizing the act’s failure to adequately address civil liberties concerns, especially those pertaining to the FBI’s access to library records. Under current law, the FBI could demand that libraries release the record of what books an individual has checked out, as well as patron internet and e-mail usage information, according to FBI spokesman William D. Carter. But that information must pertain to a specific individual involved...