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...roots of the bungle seem to come down to this: Carla Martin, a government lawyer with a small role in the sentencing trial of confessed 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, thought the chief of the prosecution team was overplaying his hand. In his opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Spencer argued that if Moussaoui had told the FBI what he knew about the 9/11 plot in advance, authorities "would have prevented" the hijackings and thousands of lives could have been saved. Martin, 51, a veteran in the aviation field, thought defense attorneys could "drive a truck" through that assertion...
...DIED. ROBERT BAKER, 84, food scientist credited with inventing the chicken nugget; in North Lansing, N.Y. He revolutionized the poultry industry by developing ways of separating and binding together chicken meat, then making it stick to its breading--innovations that spawned such snacks as dinosaur-shaped nuggets and chicken...
...Senate last week. In the meantime, spy outfits pose as subscribers to obtain records, then sell them to private investigators, divorce lawyers or anyone else with a credit card. Verizon Wireless and other carriers shut down one notorious data broker, Locatecell.com "There are thousands of companies doing this," says Robert Douglas, a security consultant and former private investigator. He notes that there are about 60,000 licensed private investigators in the U.S. "Unfortunately, anyone worth his salt knows who to turn to for phone records," he says. Wireless carriers are also revamping their practices to deter infiltration. Most will...
...ROBERT J. INLOW Charlottesville...
...Kushner, who famously authored the Pulitzer, Tony, and Emmy-winning “Angels in America,” as well as the screenplay to “Munich,” visited the Brattle Theatre last Wednesday. The occasion was a public discussion with theatrical director and theorist Robert Brustein about another celebrated American dramatist—the late Arthur Miller—and the recently-released anthology of Miller’s play edited by Kushner.Before the event at the Brattle, Kushner also made a visit to at Harvard Hillel to discuss the influence of his Jewish roots...