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While the staff's concern for undergraduate safety is laudable, the three recent incidents do not represent a newly-arisen targeting of students as victims. Students should always exercise caution and the police should show vigilance but the staff should consider broader trends before shouting fire. Muggings of students on Cambridge streets represent no greater threat than attack on Cambridge citizens, which occur with greater regularity...
...TIME was chasing the same story and never had it to throw away, so hats off to the competition. Furthermore, Newsweek's "mistake" was in being more cautious than Drudge about publishing extremely damaging allegations about the President of the U.S. Even if those allegations are true, was the caution misplaced...
...maybe Newsweek was right to get it second and Drudge to get it first. Maybe both staked out their proper places in the media food chain. There will be plenty of times when caution will be rewarded and uncritical insta-printing will look foolish. Or maybe they were both wrong: Newsweek to spike a great scoop and Drudge to publish it. The former view is more appealing, and I'm 80% sure it's right...
...general matter we believe that the e-mails are not material to the case. We came across the e-mails during our investigation and do not think they are material but thought we would err on the side of caution and provide copies to Microsoft and the courts," the official said...
That said, I must caution against expecting too much. Raises won't be anywhere near the 30% threshold being doled out (again) to millionaire thirtysomething bankers and brokers. That's Wall Street. We at least pretend to live in the real world...