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...What's happening with youth prosecutions is what's happening in the field of adult crime," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders. "There's a general get-tough approach to crime in America right now, and the experts have been telling us for years that in the case of youth violence, this response isn't borne out by the numbers." To wit: The chance of getting killed in school is one in 2 million, while seven out of 10 people think that school shootings are possible in their neighborhood. "Schools' main response to public perceptions of crime is to expel...
Charles Rutstein, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, agrees. In the past, Internet start-ups might have brought in a few gray hairs as window dressing for the road show before a public offering, he notes, but these days, VCs are bringing in seasoned managers much earlier. "If I am committing $10 million to two guys and a plan, I am going to insist on adult supervision," Rutstein says...
Pavlovsky dismisses the vote-fixing charges and plays down his reputation as the Kremlin's electoral wizard, describing his role as that of a modest analyst. But it is a sign of the times that Putin's election is not credited to a business tycoon or Kremlin staff member but to a professional political organizer--a former dissident and political exile who scorns the "intellectual poverty" of the Gorbachev years and is bullish on the Internet. His consulting firm, the Fund for Effective Politics, avoids the limelight but enjoys a reputation for achieving the impossible. One would-be client...
...Could this have been prevented? Roy Krieger, a lawyer defending one of the reprimanded managers, doesn't think so. "The result may have been tragic, but the failure was systemic, and the remedy cannot be retribution," he told the Washington Post. But there were warning signs: One analyst, not with the CIA but assigned to the agency at the time, was personally familiar with that part of Belgrade and persistently questioned the target, twice trying to warn the on-the-scene targeting command. Even more fundamental, though, is that if the failure is indeed systemic, the fault surely lies with...
...powerful special interests. It also explains why the Washington lobbyists would want to spread their gospel beyond the Beltway. "The judge will always instruct the jury that they're only to base their judgment on the facts of this case and not accept any outside influence," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders. "But jurors are people, and it would be foolish to assume they're not influenced by the world around them. And that could include an intense lobbying effort by the tobacco companies...