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...personal property seems likely to be stolen. The key question is often what a victim thinks may happen to him rather than what more objective observers may see as the actual danger. "Even if there is some hideous mistake, and no threat really existed, the law entitles you to respond on the basis of your belief," explains Columbia Law Professor Vivian Berger. One common exception to the rule prohibiting deadly force in the defense of property is when someone invades a house. In most states the inhabitant can handle an intruder any way he wishes. Says Berger: "Under...
When a company fails to respond to Harvard's ethical urgings, Steiner told reporters, University policy calls for it to consider selling its stock in that company...
That action, he said, had been taken three times: twice, several years back, when two banks refused to stop loaning money to the South African government; and two months ago, when a company failed to respond to Harvard's request for information about its South African operations...
Automatic speech recognition, the technology that enables computers to respond to spoken commands, is old hat to fictional electronic brains like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but still a primitive art in the real world. Computers are not yet discerning enough to cope with the ambiguities of spoken language or with a wide range of accents and tonal qualities. Making sense out of human discourse, says Dataquest Analyst Kenneth Lim, "is quite possibly the most difficult thing for a computer to do, other than actually thinking...
...induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...