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...elderly couple, ethnic Russians afraid to identify themselves beyond their first names Ivan and Natalya, walk slowly across the bridge that links the Estonian city of Narva to the Russian community of Ivan-Gorod. They used to make the trip easily, before the break-up of the Soviet Union turned the Narva River into the official boundary between two independent countries. Above the huge medieval fortress that guards the west bank flies the Estonian flag. On the eastern shore, a rugged rampart displays the Russian tricolor. On the bridge below, lines of pedestrians and cars move slowly between customs posts...
...report, issued by a Tennessee judge earlier this month, suggested that Ryan's office had likely prosecuted the wrong man as the infamous Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible. The judge concluded that John Demjanjuk, the man Ryan prosecuted, was probably a Nazi guard, but not Ivan the Terrible...
...speculated yesterday, that the truth about Ivan the Terrible, who brutally killed hundreds of thousands of Jews a half-century ago, will never be known...
...Wiseman report will almost certainly never be the vindication that Ryan seeks. Beyond the question of Ivan's identity, the judge raises too many other concerns about the office that Ryan...
...prove the null hypothesis--an alternative hypothesis which is the converse of that in which one believes," Wiseman wrote. "In the Demjanjuk case, attempting to prove the null hypothesis would have led the government investigators and attorneys to look for evidence that someone other than John Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible...