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...prison give prosecutors enormous leverage, says Larry Ribstein, a law professor at the Uni- versity of Illinois, and they don't shy from using it in cases involving "common business practices" like structuring tax shelters, in which "the line between merely wrong and criminal interpretations of the tax code are hazy." And if a crime occurred, "you need to know who up the line had responsibility," he says, "and that is extraordinarily difficult to determine in the context of a large corporation." Especially in a criminal case, in which witnesses can plead the Fifth rather than incriminate themselves with explanations...
...turns out that despite its 1.7 million lines of computer code on board, there was nothing telling the jets what to do when they crossed the International Date Line. That sent their avionics into a electronic tailspin. GPS receivers on the planes use signals from orbiting satellites to determine their location, altitude and speed, and require precise time and dates to work. "The International Date Line is the imaginary line on the Earth that separates two consecutive calendar days," the U.S. Naval Observatory says on its website. "That is, the date in the Eastern hemisphere, to the left...
Then there is what Publishers Weekly senior religion editor Lynn Garrett calls the Da Vinci Code effect. "Speculative histories were out there before Dan Brown wrote," says Garrett. "But they didn't make the best-seller lists and their authors didn't go on The Daily Show." Or receive a million-dollar paycheck, as was rumored in a recent case...
Kajeet's success may well have little to do with phone calls. What the company is really selling is a multimedia networking platform in an edgy package. In other words, a toy. A few weeks into my daughter's beta testing, she roamed the house barking into her handset, "Code Red Alert. Code Red Alert." The phone wasn't even switched on. "I'm just playing," she said. "None of my friends have cell phones, so I don't actually have anyone to call." If Kajeet's homework pays off, that won't be the case for much longer...
...with Fincher to make the film as accurate as possible. The director recreated everything from the wiring of the ceilings to the trailer of the main suspect, and even the clothes on Gyllenhaal’s back. “I loaned most of my stuff…the code books were my actual books,” Graysmith recalls with enthusiasm. “Jake was wearing my clothes. Those were the clothes I wore...