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...will soon take up the far more contentious question of domestic eavesdropping. Last summer, it passed the Protect America Act (PAA), which was designed to modernize the 1978 law controlling electronic surveillance of Americans. After initially trying to block the bill, which expanded the government's ability to track suspect individuals, Democrats caved. But in a last-ditch effort to placate civil libertarians, the Democrats attached a six-month sunset on the old law. That six-month extension ends Feb. 1 and the pressure is on for a permanent...
...cameras are only a piece of a big puzzle that ranks Chicago as one of the most techno-savvy departments in the nation. The city's advanced weapons against crime include instant suspect notifications and photos that are sent to police in the field via BlackBerrys; special cameras that police can use to scan partial or full license plates to see if a car is wanted; and gunshot detection equipment in certain pockets of the city that uses sensors to alert cops to shootings before citizens even pick up the phone to call them...
Today, marriage is an option, not a life sentence. Contemporary weddings may contain the phrase "I now pronounce thee man and man." We suspect that some celebrities get married only so they can make tabloid headlines with adulterous trysts. The frailty of marriage thus gives a few long-term unions--Dana and Christopher Reeve's, Nancy and Ronald Reagan's--the aura of heroism. They offer one final moral: even the famous can tend to an ailing partner with grace and devotion till death do they part...
...three other robberies in Cambridge and Somerville, the advisory, which was sent to the Harvard community, said. “Harvard University Police Department is working closely with both the Cambridge and Somerville Police Departments to ascertain if the robberies are connected, and if so, to identity the suspect so that an arrest can be made,” the advisory said. The robbery was the second attack on a Harvard affiliate made public in a HUPD advisory this month. A female staff member reported being accosted by a man on the corner of Plympton and Mill Streets...
...British-Russian relations have seriously soured since 2006, when the former KGB/FSB officer-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London with polonium-210, and the Brits demanded extradition of their prime suspect, Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi. Citing the Constitution, the Kremlin turned down London's demands - and promptly elected Lugovoi as a Duma member on the ballot of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's rabble-raising nationalists...