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...press-shy officials at Russia's Ministry of Culture insist this is a matter of national heritage. Malevich's works must remain in their homeland, they say, arguing that the state would never grant an export license for any Malevich canvas. Perplexed Malevich experts at home and abroad, however, fear that a native mogul has cut a deal to buy the canvas on the cheap and then resell it to a foreign collector for a huge profit after bribing Culture Ministry officials to grant an export license or securing a legal move to lift the ban on exports. With three...
...been plagued by image problems from the beginning, when it first latched on to Nancy Reagan?s relentlessly sunny and perversely simplistic "Just say No" campaign. The program?s goals include teaching kids creative ways to say "no" to drugs, while simultaneously bolstering their self-esteem (which DARE founders insist is related to lower rates of drug use). It's apparently not a bad way of educating five-year-olds about the dangers of drinking cleaning fluid. But it's a bust at keeping teenagers from smoking...
...everyone agrees with Seltzer's assessment - least of all IBM. Last week, the company released a statement: "If this book points to new and verifiable information that advances understanding of this tragic era, IBM will examine it and ask that appropriate scholars do the same." But company spokespeople insist that Black's allegations are not new, that historians have long been aware that the Nazis used IBM's tabulating machines. And, spokespeople insist, the company is paying for its mistakes: IBM Germany, formerly Dehomag, has already paid into Germany's government-sponsored initiative to compensate citizens forced to work...
Still, critics insist that more work needs to be done. "The efforts in the U.S. have been chaotic and will not be successful until companies start picking up the excess costs," says activist Ted Smith of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. In their defense, U.S. manufacturers insist that government and consumers must share the responsibility--and the cost...
Tampa police insist that the experiment was harmless. The mugshots against which the fans were checked were drawn from state and federal computer files. According to police spokesperson Joe Durkin, they contained only "known criminals that are attracted to these large events," ranging from "pickpockets, scam artists, con-game players, all the way to terrorists." And the computers were carefully monitored by humans. When the software made a match, it alerted an officer who compared the two faces on screen. Although FaceTrac made 19 positive IDs, no one was arrested...