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...There's a lot more dialogue at the CEO level," says Steve Baronoff, head of global M&A at Merrill Lynch. "As CEO confidence grows, you'll see a lot more pull the trigger on deals." He notes that the deal pipeline at Merrill has begun to refill in the past month and that economically sensitive companies--including tech, telecom and media--have begun discussing deals that could take place the first half of next year...
...aspect of Ashcroft's antiterror campaign has already irked civil libertarians. Two weeks ago the Attorney General quietly rewrote federal rules to allow feds to monitor communications between inmates and their lawyers. To trigger the eavesdropping, the Attorney General need have only a "reasonable suspicion" that an inmate may try to transmit terrorism instructions through his attorney. Justice Department officials pointed out that the fruits of the eavesdropping would be used only to prevent imminent attacks and that the information could not be used in court--at least not without a judge's approval. But civil libertarians and defense lawyers...
...committee of three tech experts chosen jointly by Microsoft and Justice. But the trio is pretty toothless: it can't even collect evidence for potential future court cases. University of Chicago law professor Randall Picker, who describes the deal as "within the realm of reasonableness," also predicts it will trigger a whole new set of lawsuits. "I fear Microsoft's corporate culture hasn't changed," says Ohio's Montgomery, "but I'm willing to give it a chance...
...which complicated the notion of solidarity by placing the students above the workers as their “saviors,” a role which the PSLM actively decries. Moreover, he explains that a common media angle would be to use the PSLM actions as a nostalgic trigger for the journalist to wax lyrical on “the good old days of protest”: the baby boomer sixties. “They would say, ‘isn’t this great, we have such a great future ahead of us if these students are the leaders...
CANADA The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has close U.S. ties (its intercept helped trigger last week's terrorism warning). But Canada's open-immigration policy has led some to suggest the place is a haven for al-Qaeda sympathizers who then cross the U.S. border...