Word: ideas
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Last week Chicago officials struggled over how to handle the seven- and eight-year-olds in court. Would they have any idea what's going on? Not really. John Burris is the Oakland lawyer who defended the six-year-old accused of kicking Ignacio Bermudez Jr. "The prosecution in this case took the position that he was going to make the six- year-old responsible," Burris says. "But while the prosecutor was ranting and raving, this kid was drawing, sitting on his mother's lap, sleeping. He referred to me as the 'tall man.' He didn't understand what...
Beyond the shock that seven- and eight-year-old boys might be capable of committing such a crime, there was much hand wringing over how justice should be dispensed. "These kids have no idea what's happening to them," says Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy. "Kids this young have short attention spans. They would tell the police anything in hopes of getting out of there to go watch...
...though, investigators have pieced together only a general idea of what happened at 10:35 that Friday morning in Nairobi. The most intriguing information has come from Kenyan guards who work for the private, California-based United International Investigative Services, hired to provide security in the perimeter areas of the embassy. Benson Okuku Bwaku, a 33-year-old manning the outer barrier at the building's rear entrance, has told the FBI and a number of newspapers how he encountered one of the bombers face to face...
...Clancy's new book is more than just another tale of antiterrorism. Rainbow Six is a new brand. Clancy's idea for the book grew out of a PC game of the same name (due out Aug. 27) from Red Storm Entertainment--a company Clancy founded two years ago. Game players will face the same sort of predicaments that befall John Clark, the novel's hero. Next we'd like to see the game that inspired Bridget Jones's Diary...
...content with his achievements to date, Bill Gates seems to want another title on his resume: Pioneer of the Web browser. In an interview with the Seattle Times, printed Sunday, the Microsoft CEO announces that he came up with the idea on an April 5, 1994 executive retreat: "I said, 'Hey, we're going to get (the browser) integrated with the operating system,' " Gates claims. Which, if true, would be extraordinarily convenient. It would prove that Microsoft Explorer and Windows were always intended to be one product, contrary to the Justice Department's claims. And it would predate the establishment...