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...sweep, when it came last month, was swift and thorough. Dozens of Italian customs officers fanned out across the country and began pounding on doors in Milan, Bologna, Pisa and Pesaro. Their target: a loose alliance of computer bulletin-board operators suspected of trafficking in stolen software. By last week, according to unofficial reports, the Italian police had shut down more than 60 computer bulletin boards and seized 120 computers, dozens of modems and more than 60,000 floppy disks. In their zeal, say the suspects, some officers of the Guardia di Finanza grabbed anything even remotely high-tech, including...
...Office of the General Counsel takes seriously any complaint by any student or any other member of the community about the conduct of Harvard University police. In this case, as in any case in which police conduct is questioned, we undertook a thorough inquiry and a full disclosure of the facts as we found them. Allan A. Ryan, Jr. University Attorney
...this year, she said, there was no "second search" for especially qualified minority candidates, though officials "did a very thorough search in the beginning...
...subject was finally dropped. Steiner will testify before Fiske's grand jury this week, and Fiske and his assistants will be able to question him on the basis of Steiner's own detailed notes. "The dumb son of a bitch kept a diary," says a senior Administration official. "A thorough, compulsive diary. Fiske's got it, and God knows what's in it -- as if it isn't enough that we tried to off Stephens." One source close to Fiske says, "It's not the Nixon tapes, but it ain't beanbag...
...many of his essays remain classics: consider his merciless dissection of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Reading that often tin-eared update of the beloved King James, Macdonald wrote, "is like walking through an old city that has just been given, if not a saturation bombing, a thorough going-over." As a satirical gadfly, cultural critic and detector of cant, Macdonald was a worthy successor to the sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken...