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CONTEXT There is a 32-character crack that disables the digital lock that prevents HD-DVDs from being copied--dangerous for the $24 billion DVD industry. After a website posted the code in February, lawyers demanded its removal. The online reaction then boiled over: the crack suddenly popped up everywhere. A song has even appeared on YouTube with the code as its lyrics...
...definitely going to take a crack at it,” Barrett said of next weekend’s race. “My career’s on the line, so that’s plenty of extra motivation...
...It’s sad, but it’s true: Marion Shepilov Barry Jr. really is an iconic Washingtonian. Presidents and senators come and go, but Barry is in the District to stay.Back in 1990, while mayor, Barry found himself in Washington’s Vista Hotel smoking crack cocaine with a female friend. As he soon learned, the room was under video surveillance, so that when the FBI and D.C. police confronted and arrested Barry, his immortal words—“Bitch set me up”—were captured, broadcast, and rebroadcast...
...spend the country back to fiscal health with massive public-works projects, the gangs siphoned off funds by delivering bribes to politicians to secure contracts for yakuza-linked construction firms. But in recent years, Japan's huge budget deficit has forced politicians to cut back on spending and crack down on bid rigging. "The construction industry is tight even for legitimate companies," says Takashi Kadokura, an independent researcher who specializes in the underground economy. "There's less money, and the pie is getting smaller-especially outside of major urban areas, where the yakuza still largely depend on traditional businesses...
...Inconvenient Truth,” Governor Schwarzenegger had put regulatory teeth behind carbon controls, and the Supreme Court had scolded the Environmental Protection Agency for its indifference to carbon emissions. The wall of obstructionism that has long faced climate change activists has begun to crumble, or at least crack...