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Saverin, Mezrich, Facebook’s press department, and Gawker’s managing editor did not respond to requests for comment...
...there is a great risk of simplification. Policy makers and the public want an easily digestible analysis, distinguishing good from bad and recommending blanket action. Academics who insist on a nuanced view are often sidelined. Their role in framing the debate is then filled by an obliging but inexpert press, which resorts to dismissive stereotypes when their Manichean analysis breaks down...
...never thought that I would have the chance to sit on press row during a nationally televised college basketball game. I never thought that I would have the chance to drive in the snow through upstate New York en route to covering Harvard men’s hockey and men’s basketball games in the same weekend.I never thought that I would have the chance to have a one-on-one interview with a former Duke basketball player.Heck, I never thought I’d be a sportswriter—period.In retrospect, I guess it shouldn?...
Normally placid Switzerland has been caught up in uncharacteristic intrigue since the government announced that it secretly destroyed highly technical blueprints for producing nuclear weapons. At a press conference on May 23, President Pascal Couchepin said the documents had been shredded to prevent them from falling into terrorists' hands. "The information contained in these papers presented a considerable risk to the security of Switzerland and the international community as a whole," he said...
...destroy the documents to aid its own efforts to stop nuclear smuggling, whatever the effect on the Tinners' trials. "The decision to destroy evidence related to an ongoing investigation is highly unusual and has raised questions over the possibility of CIA involvement," Egli says, pointing out that during his press conference Couchepin conceded that the Swiss government had also blocked an investigation into charges levelled by the federal attorney that Urs Tinner was engaging in illegal actions for a foreign country. Allegations that Tinner was a CIA agent were made in a book The Nuclear Jihadist by Douglas Frantz...