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...July 30 decision by Britain's Court of Appeal to allow the extradition of alleged cyber-hacker Gary McKinnon is one that takes some decoding. This much is sure: with only the hope of a last-ditch appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to cling to, the 42-year-old Briton's date with a U.S. court on charges linking him to what one U.S. prosecutor called "the biggest military computer hack of all time," is edging inexorably closer. Delivering a ruling that seemed pitched at would-be hackers everywhere, the appeal court judge said, "It must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hack Attack | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...until he found out they smoked pot. Sessions protests that he was ''caricatured'' unfairly by his opponents. ''It's rough on Capitol Hill right now,'' he says. ''Some good people are getting hurt.'' Anti-Reagan forces mean to get still rougher. And Manion is the next target. Last month a last-ditch Republican effort narrowly succeeded in getting his nomination released by the judiciary committee ''without a recommendation.'' The committee, however, is preparing a report on Manion's qualifications, a common practice only for Supreme Court nominees. Calling him ''deficient,'' the draft bemoans the spelling and grammatical errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNMAKING THE APPOINTMENTS The fight is on over Reagan judicial choices | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...surgical reconstruction of the hymen broken during a women's first experience of intercourse, or, increasingly, during demanding exercise or as a result of a collision or fall by women who've never had sex, has prompted a growing number of young betrothed women in France to make a last-ditch attempt to avoid the humiliation, repudiation, and possibly violence that could result from husbands and families discovering from blood-free bridal sheets that their wedding night had not been their first sexual experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dilemma of 'Virginity' Restoration | 7/13/2008 | See Source »

...Osborne is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. His last-ditch plea to have his sentence commuted to life in prison was denied this morning by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, despite supportive letters from Georgia luminaries including former President Jimmy Carter and former deputy attorney general Larry Thompson - a Democrat and a Republican, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Your Lawyer Wants You Executed | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...part of Clinton's last-ditch effort to seat all of the delegates from both states, which were stripped of their delegates after they moved up their primaries in defiance of the party's rules. Clinton's rhetorical war on behalf of the two states has grown increasingly heated, as she has likened the dispute to the 2000 Florida recount, the 1960s fight for civil rights - and, in an even bigger stretch, the election standoff in Zimbabwe. But the meeting is Clinton's last remaining glimmer of hope to catch Obama, who currently leads the race by around 160 pledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dems' Endgame: Florida, Michigan | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

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