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DIED. CHARLES CHIBITTY, 83, last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who sent messages for the Allies during World War II; in Tulsa, Okla. "It's strange," said the war vet in 2002. "Growing up as a child I was forbidden to speak my native language at school. Later [it] helped win the war, and that makes me very proud...
...talked of Roberts' emerging from Harvard with honors and summers working in a steel mill, introduced his family, talked of his heart, which is Bush code for "he's my kind of guy, so I don't need to get into specifics." To focus more on where the man comes from than on anything he has argued in 24 years as a government and corporate lawyer is not just a political smoke screen. It is a reminder, first, that it is a lawyer's art to offer arguments detached from beliefs; and second, that whatever issues the court faces...
Almost as soon as he began, people began contacting him about their experiences; Plotz became a part of their search for families. Finally, a benevolent sperm donor, code-named Donor White by the Sperm Bank, contacted Plotz about an article he had written. With Plotz’s help, White, assisted by a birthmother whom Plotz nicknamed Beth, began a grandfatherly relationship with one of the children born from his sperm...
...British national arrested with a false passport in May 2005 in the frontier town of Peshawar; he eventually confessed he was part of a plot to bomb pubs, restaurants and rail stations in Britain. Siddique wrote a cryptic note saying one of his comrades told him that an operation code-named the "Wagon" had been postponed - which may have referred to the bombing that eventually took place on July 7. For all the talk of British flintiness in the face of tragedy, the realization that the attack was carried out by homegrown militants cast an added pall over London...
Five investors—including John G. Palfrey Jr. ’94, the executive director of Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Berkman Center for the Internet and Society—are banking on a “really simple” code, popularized in the last year by bloggers, to power the third big wave of the Internet revolution...