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...first and most basic underscored lesson is that Americans are frustrated with government. This angle can be put into any story, pitting an innocent David against the Goliath-like government. A closely-related variant of this first rule--one that should catch the eye of any college student--is the talk of how youth are divorced from politics...
...Lockerbie trial's star witness, Libyan double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, was a good catch. "He wasn't just a one-time asset," says a U.S. intelligence official. "He was providing information to us on other matters." But to the Scottish judges in Camp Zeist, he was hopeless. "We are unable to accept Abdul Majid as a credible and reliable witness," they ruled. For his contradictory and unconvincing performance on the stand, they rejected Giaka's testimony linking the Libyan defendants to the bombing; as a direct result, one of the two accused, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, walked free...
Everybody involved stresses that this was a test, not a serious attempt to catch bad guys. For the police, it was a chance to gauge FaceTrac's effectiveness as a crime-fighting tool. For Graphco and its partners, it was a chance to see whether the system could capture tens of thousands of faces in difficult lighting and random angles and process them in real time--while grabbing a little free publicity. "It was a phenomenal success," says Colatosti. "If you had told me the day before that we'd get one, that would be great. The fact that...
...hoards climbed on top of snowbanks to catch a glimpse of the star as she rode slowly through the Square in a silver convertible before accepting her award...
Though DeGreeff says he has never gone to the Grille to catch students, if he ever ran into one of his students there, he would not be able to ignore them...