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...warrant for a different incident. Catalano did not disclose the reason for that warrant, and Law School officials declined to comment on the arrest. “The one thing that we are prepared to say is that the laptops were loaners and that we have been able to ascertain that there is no private or confidential data on them,” said Robb London, the acting associate dean of communications at the Law School. The investigation of the laptop thefts is ongoing. In an unrelated incident, officers arrested a 65-year-old man found lying in the trash...
...city's three-day ordeal points to multiple failures by the security agencies, including the failure to intercept and heed intelligence; the failure to contain the terrorists and the damage they were able to inflict; and the failure to capture more than one terrorist alive in order to ascertain their identities, motives, origins and affiliations. But these failures are neither startling nor new. Indian security experts have for decades pointed at the need for a better intelligence-gathering system, from the police post up. And they say India needs more police officers - at the moment, the country has 122 officers...
...exists to maintain a well-ordered society, and is enforced to both protect the offender and those around him. Thus, in order to honestly evaluate this proposed treatment of pedophiles, it is necessary to ascertain whether chemical castration is intended as a punishment or a cure. This classification in turn rests on the definition of pedophilia as either a crime or a mental disorder . Although many pedophiles are subject to a personality disorder that dictates a sexual preference “for children, boys or girls, or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age,” according...
...since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law pointed out a case where a Mississippi voting official accidentally erased the records of ten thousand voters from her home computer. Whether political motivation was involved or not is difficult to ascertain, mostly because standards are so unclear...
...makes the book readable, since few of us really want to muddle through an in-depth analysis of the master-slave dialectic or production functions, it ultimately limits the persuasive power of Stoll’s argument. Indeed, the disjointed nature of the book often makes it difficult to ascertain what exactly Stoll’s argument is. He doesn’t quite engage us in a criticism of overconsumption or materialism, nor does he really champion the need for environmental sustainability. Stoll offers us mostly platitudes, empty truisms about the unnecessary excess of our commercial world...