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Since last January it has also been the tech world's most-speculated-about secret. That was when a book proposal about Ginger, a.k.a. "IT," got leaked to the website Inside.com Kamen had been working on Ginger for more than a decade, and although the author (with whom the inventor is no longer collaborating) never revealed what Ginger was, his precis included over-the-top assessments from some of Silicon Valley's mightiest kingpins. As big a deal as the PC, said Steve Jobs; maybe bigger than the Internet, said John Doerr, the venture capitalist behind Netscape, Amazon.com...
...embrace of military tribunals. How could the U.S. hold trials in which the judges are military officers, just a two-thirds vote is sufficient to convict, and there is no need for proof beyond a reasonable doubt? How could the Administration support legal proceedings that are held in secret--meaning a defendant can go from being charged to being put to death without the public ever finding out? "Whether you have a civilian tribunal or a military tribunal, it's possible to have a fair one and it's possible to have an unfair one," said Chertoff with steely determination...
...There are bound to be more surprises lurking in the snow. In a war of bribes and secret deals, targets have a way of becoming more elusive the closer you get to them, and victory doesn't necessarily bring the promised spoils. The conflict in Afghanistan has confounded expectations. Who anticipated that the Taliban's rule would disintegrate wholesale two months into the U.S. bombing campaign? Or that the regime's soldiers would abandon Kandahar as meekly and abruptly as they did, quitting the city in the dead of night...
...glance: It’s no secret to anyone that Leanza is the centerpiece of the Bulldog offense. Last year, the Honorable Mention All-Ivy selection led the team in scoring, assists and minutes played. He did it all without even practicing, as he tried to baby his injured shoulder which had undergone unsuccessful experimental surgery over the off-season. Unfortunately for Yale, he went under the knife again this off-season, sidelining him until January, although he should return for the start of the Ivy campaign...
...thereafter, the release of Harvard game tapes meant that Reka was no longer a secret. The immediate impact that Cserny had in her first two games was tempered in the next two contests, in which the freshman scored four and zero points against Fairfield and Villanova, respectively...