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...three-judge panel decided the now-infamous web site is, in fact, protected under the First Amendment because its language does not blatantly authorize or directly threaten violence...
...find guns, schools must be vigilant. But at what price? Today it seems as though an arms race has begun in American high schools: as a tiny number of disaffected kids stockpiles guns and home-made bombs to mimic Columbine's Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (or at least threaten to), communities are investing millions of dollars to bring armed cops--er, "resource officers"--to campus, along with metal detectors and security cameras...
...obvious problem is that certain groups may provide valuable services, but at the same time require participants to be of a certain faith or place a heavy emphasis on conversion. Allowing these groups government funding--giving government assistance to proselytizing efforts--would clearly threaten the separation of church and state...
...Skeptics Threaten Ivy Council" (Opinion, March 8), Ean W. Fullerton, a first-year at Columbia, attacked the decision of the Undergraduate Council to evaluate its involvement in the Ivy Council. Fullerton describes this as an "unwarranted ultimatum"; I suggest that the Ivy Council is an unwarranted organization...
...biggest e-commerce extortion scheme ever, involving more than one million credit card numbers stolen by hackers working with Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. Agents say the mobsters hack e-commerce sites, download customers' personal information and credit card numbers, then call victim companies to extort protection money. They threaten to post the purloined personal information and card numbers on the Internet - angering current customers and scaring off prospective ones - if the companies don't hire them as "security consultants...