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...have to take it for granted that art patronage, as once understood, no longer exists in today's world, especially in America. People collect art, buying it for their own enjoyment. But spending millions on an inflated comic by Roy Lichtenstein or outbidding a rival heavy hitter at an auction isn't public patronage. Such patronage suggests some intent of public edification, and in the U.S. - thanks to its barbarously ignorant politicians and its media-sodden public - that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various...
Probably not. To the degree that there were any warnings, they were lost in the fragmented world of the agencies that collect and analyze intelligence--none of which will be under the new department's jurisdiction. The Homeland Security Department will create an in-house analysis unit, but its output will be only as good as the information it gets from the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency. Those agencies could stand to improve their own operations. The New York Times reported last week that the FBI's second-in-command, Bruce Gebhardt, recently fired off a memo complaining...
...down barriers between intelligence gathering and law enforcement. But civil libertarians are worried that the new department, with its souped-up databases, will step over the line. Just as scary is the possibility that it won't go far enough. "We need national guidelines for using information that we collect and accessing databases," says Philip Zelikow, who directs the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. "The people who work day in and day out need to know what they are allowed to do, not just what they are not allowed...
What the Drexel three knew, say prosecutors, is that Pick 6 bets collected at off-site locations such as Catskill OTB aren't transmitted to the host track until the fifth race. Reason: the computer matrix that handles wagers nationwide was not designed to collect such exotic bets in real time. That time warp would give someone with access to the system a chance to change bets on the first four races after the results were in. Harn showed up unexpectedly for work at Autotote's Newark, Del., offices on Oct. 26 and logged on to the Catskill OTB site...
...policies created under the Bush administration threaten our fundamental right to privacy. The first would give the administration the freedom to monitor and interrogate any or all Iraqis or Iraqi-American dual citizens living in the United States. The second would allow the government to collect individual consumer information gathered by the private sector to create profiles of citizens to identify potential terrorists. In the pursuit of national security, the Bush administration has shown a blatant disregard for the protection of civil liberties...