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...VIPprotection unit following the lapses that enabled an assassin to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that year. Dichter was promoted to the top job in 2000 by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When the intifadeh broke out five months into Dichter's five-year term, he initiated a string of high-profile counteroperations that impressed Sharon even before he became Prime Minister. To kill Hamas operatives, Dichter had his agents hide explosives in telephone booths and car-seat headrests; he pushed them to cut planning time for operations from months to mere hours. Dichter and Sharon share the same view...
...This is getting easier all the time, as high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and computer processor power continues to double every 16 months. Meanwhile, the software tools for spamming continue to improve. Web crawlers harvest e-mail addresses en masse from chat rooms and newsgroups. Dictionary-attack programs string together words or names in multiple languages, random numbers, an "@" and the names of common mail servers. Presto: millions of likely e-mail addresses...
...mail. Your best bet may be to simply reshuffle your In box according to the type of sender. AOL marks all incoming mail with one of three icons: a yellow envelope for mail from People I Know (based on your address book and Buddy List), a parcel with string identifies mail from bulk senders, and an orange envelope and magnifying glass for messages from unknown senders. Look for new tools in the next version, AOL 9.0, due out this summer...
...managing editor Gerald Boyd, resigned last week in an unprecedented downfall at a major American newspaper. At first glance, their toppling was the climax--the Times hopes--of a humiliating season of scandal that began with the disclosures that young reporter Jayson Blair had plagiarized or fabricated a string of stories. But at root, it was something more mundane and yet amazing: a workplace's staging a public mutiny to take down an unpopular boss. What fueled its unstoppable drama was that the mutiny took place at the country's most important (and some would add self-important) newspaper, placing...
...Rehman, a Koranic teacher with burning eyes and a coal-black beard, walks by a McDonald's and sees these affluent Karachiites chowing down their Happy Meals, he feels "a deep rage" rising within himself. Rehman also belongs to Sipah-e-Sabah, an outlawed extremist group associated with a string of killings and bombings across the city, so his fury should be taken seriously...