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...Over the last 10 years, the U.S. and its allies have increasingly used criminal cases at home and abroad to augment diplomatic and military pressure in their fight against terrorists, war criminals and other foes. That in turn has meant that secrets traditionally circulated only among a tight group of senior decision makers are increasingly ending up in courtrooms. Once there, a troubling question often arises: If information like Giaka's is unreliable when put to the test of a trial, why is it so convincing...
...good news for Boston viewers is that things can only get better, and the good news for Boston's newscasts is that improvements will likely only augment their Nielsen showings, which of late have not been particularly rosy for WCVB and WBZ. The question is exactly how the stations ought to go about making improvements...
...Online learning clearly won't be toppling the ivory tower anytime soon. But I now can see how it might augment it. Fairleigh Dickinson University, which announced in September that it would be the first-ever school to require its full-time unders to take one course online each year, may be onto something. Imagine if you could take that required science gut course online as opposed to in a 500-person lecture or polish off that one nagging credit over the summer. Or if two classes conflicted, you could complete one over the Internet on your own time...
...name registry was transferred several years ago to a for-profit corporation, Network Solutions, whose high profits and monopoly control prompted the government to transfer control once again to ICANN. In coming years, the group will decide on the creation of new, publicly available top-level domain names to augment the familiar .com, .net and .gov. However, it will do so with little public input...
...augment security, the FDO had requested that the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) increase its presence in the dining hall...