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WICK: My favorite stock and largest position is Symantec, the leading company in antivirus software and a contender in things like vulnerability assessment. Symantec is a very well-run company, extremely profitable. They've been buying back stock religiously, and it's very cheap. I'd make the argument that security is growing as a percentage of corporate information technology spending, and it's more resistant to recessionary cutbacks. Another software company that we like is Autodesk. If you're an architect and want to translate your thoughts or drawings into a computer-generated model, you use Autodesk's drafting...
...preserving the option to seek the death penalty in the case. That's against the advice of many in the FBI and the intelligence community--among them, the sources say, CIA Director George Tenet, who has personally lobbied Ashcroft several times, including in a conversation last week. Tenet's argument: the national interest is better served by a plea, a full debriefing and, as an intelligence official put it, "an arrangement so we can have access to Hanssen should questions arise down the road...
...magistrate, but there's no form that says so because I wasn't when I joined." Tory M.P. Charles Wardle has taken up the Masonic issue and recently introduced a bill requiring anyone elected to public office to register their membership in any secret society. Wardle dismisses the Masons' argument that they are not a secret society. "They are required to keep the membership secret, even if they are at liberty to divulge their own," he says...
...capital case, the stakes are by definition as high as they can be. With this latest misstep, the doubts about the process are threatening to help reshape the whole death-penalty debate. The prospect of McVeigh's execution had already made every argument get up and dance. Just as capital punishment was losing support with each new innocent man freed by DNA evidence, along came the perfect villain: so clearly guilty, unrepentant and pitiless that at least 75% of Americans agreed with his sentence, including 22% who say they oppose the death penalty but would make an exception...
This familiar mantra surfaced last week in the Justice Department's mea culpa letter to the McVeigh defense lawyers. Justice floated it in hopes that the media would pick it up and repeat it. And we did. But the government's argument is laughable. How would a prosecutor know what's important to a defendant's case? Prosecutors use the excuse to minimize their misconduct under the theory "no harm, no foul," but the courts should punish those who deliberately hold back important evidence. Yet judges too often look the other...