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...goes out and gets the latest versions of useful free programs that are not always known or easy to find. Spyware hunter Ad-Aware, PDF viewer Adobe Reader 7, privacy-minded web browser Mozilla Firefox, and streaming-media utility RealPlayer are among them, as well as a special six-month free trial of Norton AntiVirus. Each program is optional, and it's easy to create a custom set for installation. As new versions are posted, the Google Updater quietly updates your software. This prevents you from experiencing Adobe's bewildering update messages while trying to read a PDF; it also...
...Americans vulnerable when the sections of the Patriot Act expired. Bush also said that he opposed a short-term extension of the Patriot Act. But with time running out before Congress adjourned for the holidays and opposition to the Patriot Act legislation still strong, the Senate finally passed a six-month extension of the Patriot Act on Dec. 21. A day of frenzied negotiations followed between the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House. The final compromise was a five-week extension to allow time for discussion and possible revision of the controversial measures. The senators who blocked...
Mario Draghi's first task as Bank of Italy's new governor was accomplished the moment his name was announced - the respected No. 2 man at Goldman Sachs instantly restored credibility to Italy's besmirched financial system. After a six-month drama of piled-up ethical questions and judicial inquiries, longtime central banker Antonio Fazio finally stepped down last month. While several key private Italian bankers are being investigated in probes of two bank takeovers that Fazio green-lighted, Fazio denies any wrongdoing. (Last week, three more financial executives resigned, and the banker closest to Fazio, Gianpiero Fiorani, was interrogated...
...most embarrassing post-9/11 defeats, the jurors last week acquitted al-Arian, 47, on eight counts--including charges that he was Islamic Jihad's North America boss and conspired in terrorist murders--and deadlocked on nine others. Three co-defendants were also acquitted of 64 counts after a six-month trial in which the defense called no witnesses. "We didn't have to," says al-Arian attorney William Moffitt, "because we were convinced this was a First Amendment case. This whole prosecution was simply an effort to silence Dr. al-Arian because his outspoken pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel views...
...plan is to go back to basics: hide more spies posing, for example, as cultural or economic attachés in embassy-based CIA stations, and reopen stations that closed when the cold war ended. Camp Peary, the CIA's secret training center in eastern Virginia, runs a roughly six-month course to mint new spies for such postings. Classes at the Farm, as it's called, are packed, officials...