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...Ministry of Justice can make "disappear." Start with a ridicules "shops" themselves, and then the gray, pseudo-Bauhaus, bureaucrat-infested, architectural travesty known as "Holyoke Center." Then move across the yard and snatch up cell blocks A-D of the Canaday Penal Colony. Finally, squash Le Corbusier's odious bug of a building, the ineptly named "carpenter center...
...another persuaded a client to arm every employee with a can of Mace. Another told workers to keep their doors open at a 45 degrees angle so as to deflect bullets. In one case an investigator hired by a company to follow an employee ended up attaching a tracking bug to the person's car, and in another case security consultants simply broke the law by checking a worker's arrest record in a state that allows employers to verify only convictions...
...When you get into a sport like this, when you spend to much time doing it at practice, it's a bug--if you lay off it for two days, you're dying to go back on the ice and shoot a puck. And if I go to a pro game at night, it drives me crazy--I want to go straight to the rink that night...
America's romance with real-life mass murder is going mainstream. Two years ago, serial-killer trading cards sparked national outrage. Now Jeffrey Dahmer and Charles Manson co-star with Diane Sawyer and Jane Pauley. Even eggheads have got the bug, thanks to a serial-killer cover on the New York Review of Books. Hey, there's gold in them thar psychos...
...agents probably tapped into Ames' computer with a variation on old- fashioned bugging. One way would have been to enter his home and plant a device in the computer that would broadcast every keystroke. A more efficient method would have been to plant a bug enabling them to turn on the computer from another location, call up the internally stored files and transmit them by either radio or telephone modem to the FBI's waiting machines; the computer and modem would have been turned off by a remote signal. While in his house, the FBI might also have copied...