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...some ways an open trial is what they fear most. That could dump a flood of classified information onto the public record. To obtain a conviction for espionage, the government must prove that the information passed to a foreign power affects national security. To say it was classified is not enough. The defense can call in still more classified information. So right now the intelligence community is also taking a deep breath. "The one thing they really want is a confession, so they can avoid a trial," says a retired CIA official...
...next go-round. So it was with the recent arrest of 46 illegal stock promoters in New York. The FBI, U.S. Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission and National Association of Securities Dealers collaborated to knock out a ring of hustlers who use high-pressure sales tactics to dump inflated stocks on unwary investors. Who was in charge? "That's a hot potato," an official confides...
Students at Stanford University are attempting to organize a nationwide movement to convince the magazine to dump its current rankings system. The students have attacked the ratings as shallow and subjective but dangerous because so many students and administrators take them seriously...
...Harvard, a movement to support this coalition may be starting. Apparently students at Yale and Princeton are expressing interest as well, although I'd bet that their interest stems from polite false humility and that they won't be too active in the crusade to dump the rankings. Although one of the organizers of the Stanford coalition denies that this movement stems from "sour grapes," it's pretty clear that bitter envy is the driving force behind the effort to reform the rankings. Had Stanford been ranked number one, no one from Stanford would be whining...
...insult ever cleared up a toxic waste dump or helped an elderly person," he added...