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...centuries, the children of Abraham--Jews, Christians and Muslims alike--have venerated the Jordan River. So much so that "crossing over Jordan" has become a mystical metaphor for liberation and resurrection. These days, it's the river itself that could use some resurrecting. Instead of a mighty torrent "deep and wide," as the gospel songs proclaim, much of the river is a thin rivulet of brown slime largely obscured by reeds. Most of what now flows in between the Jordan's banks is human sewage, almost all of it untreated. The river where John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus...
First it was a chef; now it's a waiter. Restaurant workers just can't help spilling the beans. Anthony Bourdain's tell-all Kitchen Confidential was a breakthrough best seller, and Pete Jordan's Dishwasher book and blog developed a cult following. Now Steve Dublanica has penned Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip - Confessions of a Cynical Waiter to expose the curmudgeonly inner life of restaurant servers. The book, based on Dublanica's witty blog, hit the New York Times best-seller list this week. Dublanica, 40, who recently retired after nine years of waitering in New York, spoke...
...political motive, and should he come to trial in the U.S., he faces up to 70 years in prison, though it's likely to be nearer the 8 to 10 years prosecutors have threatened. He'll fare worse if they can prove he deliberately caused damage. Though Jordan is skeptical of the $700,000 damage bill, "McKinnon's defense that he's a freedom fighter," says Jordan, "who was searching for hidden information that the government was holding back from the people is pretty severely undermined if at the same time he was bringing down or breaking U.S. systems...
...hacker's lawyer claimed that the British government had decided not to prosecute him under U.K. law so that the U.S. could "make an example of him" - a charge that carries some uncomfortable echoes. "They do seem to be going to inordinate lengths to get this guy extradited," notes Jordan, "but they could as much be making a point about extradition laws as about computer crime." It's possible, he says, "that the Bush Administration's hard line is of a piece with the kind of things we've seen round extraordinary rendition and Guantanamo - they just believe that when...
...National Hi-Tech Crime Unit - the one that arrested McKinnon in 2002 - was disbanded. Though there is pressure to rebuild a specialist e-crimes unit, mostly prompted by the soaring cost of cyber fraud, the U.K. government has so far failed to come up with funding. In short, says Jordan, "they don't take this kind of hacking seriously." Which may be why McKinnon's headed to America...