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...public might imagine, but the murder of Lefkow's family has rattled courthouses around the nation. This is not supposed to happen in America. "It's news that makes your whole body hurt," says Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, a colleague of Lefkow's. "What an enormous, monstrous evil." The hunt for suspects is relentless because of the symbolic importance of punishing the killers. And the list of possible motives is long. But judges are also asking whether it is possible to better protect those whose work in the justice system makes them targets...
...companies could be reviewed. First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kinakh, the head of a government commission on reprivatization, describes the previous sale of state assets as "a cynical carve-up and snatching of economic and material assets." But he simultaneously pledges that there won't be a witch hunt. "We won't allow another redistribution of property in Ukraine outside of law or rules of market competition," he says. At most, a few dozen firms could be affected: "There is no Yukos specter over Ukraine. There is no threat to the investment climate." International firms and investors hope...
Then there were the AT&T Wireless execs who were sent on a scavenger hunt and told to use their Mmode location software to find an ATM, a drugstore and a particular kind of Japanese cookie. Almost immediately, Mmode proved too hard to use. One participant broke down and dialed 411, and another called his wife and asked her to Google a location. "They realized their competition wasn't Verizon," says Ideo's Duane Bray, who designed the exercise. "Their competition was real life...
...like the Soviet Union, this strategy is much less effective at fighting off a decentralized group of tech-savvy terrorists. While signals intelligence did help the U.S. find Qusay and Uday Hussein during the early days of the second Iraq war, the results have been less encouraging in the hunt for Al Qaeda leaders...
Ongoing. The Sport of the Kings: Art of the Hunt in Iran and India. Sackler Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...