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Some students say the success of Sunday's billwould be indicative of where the council'spriorities lie...
Certainly his Kosovo strategy has been confounding. In part, says a U.S. official, Milosevic seems closed off to reality. When negotiating, he relies on a mix of charm and tirades about the victimization of the Serbs. Says the official: "Every second sentence is wrong or a lie. He pours out his soul, but you don't know if he believes all that rubbish." He never says yes or no, never puts his own name to a formal agreement. While his vicious behavior in Kosovo has evoked comparison to Hitler, those who know him say Milosevic doesn't dream so large...
...when we need one, no sooner do we start to tell it than we give ourselves away, exhibiting all sorts of facial tics and nervous mannerisms that reveal just how uncomfortable we are with the story we're telling. Truly gifted dissemblers, however, reveal very little of this, lying so easily and skillfully that even the most well-trained eye wouldn't notice a thing. If cops and card players can be fooled, though, it's now possible that another type of sophisticated lie detector can't: the computer...
...computer system that has learned to read the rapidly changing expressions in a human face and may one day be able to draw conclusions about the emotions that lurk behind them. Get such a system out of the lab and into a police station, and the business of lie detection and law enforcement could change for good...
...muscle actions in the Ekman catalogue. They will then program the computer to recognize the various combinations of these movements, pouring live video images of human volunteers directly into the machine's brain. Eventually, the research at Sejnowski's and other labs could lead to a working lie detector, one that would be far more reliable and much less intrusive than existing polygraphs, which measure such reactions as heartbeat and sweating that clever subjects can control. Says Bartlett: "It would spot in an instant any facial movement that indicated a conflicting emotion, like a beginning of a scowl quickly covered...