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...suspect. But investigators are less dependent than ever on chance, and what they have unveiled this week is only a sampling of what they have in their high-tech kits. There are computer programs that turn muddy surveillance videos into crisp digital images. There are chemical scanners that probe evidence, one molecule at a time. There are experimental--and controversial--sensors that analyze a suspect's brain waves and determine what he knows and what he doesn't. The business of tracking down and picking up crooks is undergoing a technological revolution. The public, always hungry for the Next...
...year, but one conclusion is indisputable. "There were bizarre goings-on everywhere at Sabena," he says, "and not just with the Airbus." Bizarre may be too mild a term. Parallel to the commission's work, Belgian magistrate Jean-Claude Van Espen is conducting a criminal inquiry into Sabena. His probe is based on three separate suits filed by former workers. Details of his investigation and the suits themselves are confidential, and no charges have yet been filed. But the plaintiffs have handed over evidence they say indicates criminal wrongdoing. Union activist Philippe Doyen has made especially explosive allegations, which...
...assume the answer involves physical intimacy. I probe my mother about her dalliances with my father in Saigon and she claims not to remember the details. Still, I suspect that before she was my mother she was my father’s mistress. I asked my relatives to see those romantic missives, but the letters no longer exist. In 1975, when North Vietnam took over the South, my grandmother burned them. She had to destroy the family’s ties to America as the new government searched homes looking for evidence of treachery and conspiracy. I traveled...
...Sept. 10 lunch hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Their exchange was brief. But Weill, 69, CEO of Citigroup, indicated he was eager to talk about the ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense of urgency...
...Sept. 10 lunch hosted by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Gracie Mansion. Their exchange was brief. But Weill, 69, CEO of Citigroup, indicated he was eager to talk about the ugly business that Spitzer, the ambitious New York State attorney general, has been finding in his probe of the financial behemoth. Within days a high-level session followed, and even Spitzer was impressed with Weill's sense of urgency. The meeting that followed, at the attorney general's Manhattan office, between Spitzer and Charles Prince, the new head of Citi's subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney, marked the beginning...