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CHRISTOPHER EMMETT, convicted murderer, before his death by lethal injection. Emmett had argued that Virginia's execution methods were unconstitutional; Governor Tim Kaine declined to intervene...
McKinnon's case pops up in a just-published book Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism, by Tim Jordan, a lecturer at the U.K.'s Open University. "He's in there," says Jordan, "as as an example of how difficult it is for governments to tell the difference between organized terrorist or cyberwar attacks from other countries and the individual hacker." The remarkable depth and range of McKinnon's attacks and the fact that he appeared to be looking for something in particular is exactly the kind of pattern that security experts point to as evidence of cyberterror attacks. "This...
That's the stark choice facing Barack Obama as he ponders whom to tap in the next few weeks as his running mate. Now that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's name has popped to the top of the charts as a possible Obama sidekick - perhaps to be replaced in a few days by some other hot possibility - the question helps clarify the next few weeks: Does Obama counterbalance his relative inexperience in general, and in foreign policy and defense matters in particular, and go with a trusted old-timer or pick a fresh face, someone who can pose...
...case, the choice between doubling down and compensating for weakness is not unlike the judgment awaiting Republican John McCain. He could look to a younger Republican who is more oriented toward domestic policy - such as Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, who is 48, or former Bush Administration official and Ohio Congressman Rob Portman of Cincinnati, who is 52. Or he could forgo those relative newcomers and instead try to underscore his own experience by tapping former governor, businessman and Olympics organizer Mitt Romney of Massachusetts...
...dawn. He later attacked the absurdity of Australia's 22 different rail gauges, and the "paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth." That line became part of the rallying cry that - several decades later - led to the standardization of all railways between Australia's mainland-state capitals. Tim Fischer, Wodonga, Victoria...