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...until the search of Kaczynski's cabin, federal authorities were not totally sure that the Lincoln hermit was their man. No one had ever seen Kaczynski mail a bomb. Several clues the Unabom task force has long held in hand are not foolproof. The few fingerprints recovered from the Unabomber's efforts, say investigators, are missing the central whorls; even if Kaczynski's matched, a jury might not be persuaded. Unknown to many, the bombs had yielded bits of hair and fiber, but the cops could not be sure they were the perpetrator's. Nor were they sure they...
...know Harvard gives tenure to "the best in the world," but we have seen too many brilliant scholars and teachers leave after not being offered tenure to believe that this system is foolproof. We also scorn the first statistic Knowles offers about junior faculty members. In the same study, he writes, "Ninety percent of eligible assistant professors (123 of 136) were promoted to associate professor or directly to tenure." Being promoted to an associate professor and being given tenure are far from the same thing; Knowles, a chemist, should know better than to deceive so blatantly by conflating statistics. Even...
...presidential politics, voters are having second thoughts about the Republican revolution that was ushered in just last year. The poll results underscored the results of last week's elections, where Democrats held ground in places they had lost badly in recent years. In Kentucky, where Clinton bashing was a foolproof formula in the '94 congressional races, it didn't work for G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate Larry Forgy. The winner was Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Patton, who turned the tables and made Newt Gingrich the boogeyman in his campaign. In Virginia, Republicans were stopped just short of gaining control of the state...
...people willing and able to serve," says Simpson prosecutor Brian Kelberg. "How are we going to get a surgeon or a bank president?" The potential jurors for big, sequestered cases tend to be unrepresentative: older, less educated and largely female. Moreover, sequestration is "a far cry from the foolproof system we think it is,'' says Kamisar. "Things slip through the seal"--conjugal visits, for instance...
While the system is not foolproof, Kim said he is optimistic it will work...