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John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University, says the Bear Stearns hedge-fund case, which jurors decided in less than a day, will make prosecutors think twice before bringing a case that hinges on e-mail. Coffee once called e-mail evidence "the biggest advancement in law enforcement since the two-way radio." But the Bear Stearns case and others have caused Coffee to reconsider how powerful e-mails are in court. "The jury was totally unconvinced," says Coffee. "It does not mean all white-collar cases will not go forward, but I do think it will cause prosecutors...
...think one of our biggest frustrations is how unclear this administration has been and how behind the scenes they have been [about Sudan policy],” Amjadi said. Many STAND members campaigned for Obama last fall and are now frustrated with the administration’s lack of initiative in Sudan, she said...
...Though Bamfield says theft by organized criminals for the purpose of resale remains the biggest segment of shoplifting, there's been a noticeable increase in the number of middle-class people stuffing their pockets - people who are not "stealing necessities to keep themselves and their families alive," he adds. Worse still, more than a few of these individuals regard this kind of stealing in the economic crisis as fully justified, as the researchers discovered through interviews with shoplifters and police...
...massive blackout that plunged huge swaths of Brazil into darkness - as well as the whole of Paraguay - underscores the challenges facing South America's biggest nation as it prepares to modernize its infrastructure in time for the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in Rio two years after...
Tuesday night's blackout brought chaos to some of the region's biggest cities and frightened many of its residents. It started at around 10 p.m., when lights flickered for a few moments and then died. It lasted more than two hours. Power returned to São Paulo, a metropolis of more than 20 million people, around midnight, before going off again a few moments later. Lights came back on shortly before 1:30 a.m. (See TIME's photo-essay "A Long History of Olympic Politics...