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Another criteria in the treasurer search which boded well for MacDougall was that the Corporation sought a Boston area resident with enough independent wealth to insure that he could commit himself fairly heavily to the ostensibly part-time...
...some may be inaccurate, positioned later for dramatic effect. With so few clues, there are all sorts of unanswered questions: Did Custer die on the gentle hill where his body was found, or by the river as Indian tales say? Did the last troopers, as Indian veterans claimed, commit suicide to avoid being tortured? "The myths around Custer and the battle have become much bigger than the facts," says Vine Deloria, a Sioux author. "This could help set the record straight...
...other theme in American policy that the Soviets found so objectionable-that their leadership is illegitimate, aberrational and doomed-resounded through Reagan's rhetoric for nearly two years. The President repeatedly charged that the Soviets "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" and would end up on "the ash heap of history...
Unfortunately, these may be the outcomes of all these blundering attempts to subordinate the Olympics to matters of politics and principle. What sane nation would agree in advance to commit the enormous financial and administrative resources necessary to stage the games when the possibility of a boycott looms so large...
Most state laws are aimed at malefactors who use computers to commit such conventional crimes as robbery and embezzlement. The Massachusetts and California bills are directed primarily at computer trespassers and criminals who deal in data, not dollars. These misdeeds range from changing school grades to deleting invoices in stores and altering credit-rating information. Other data-based crimes involve the theft of mailing lists, which can be copied and then sold, and the pilfering of oil-company drilling results, which can be worth millions to a competing firm. Today on some computer networks, credit card numbers are traded like...