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...possible to defeat all terrorist attacks against Americans, every time and everywhere." In that sense, the 9/11 commission's legacy may ultimately be determined by how long the U.S. can deter the inevitable. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger; Massimo Calabresi; James Carney; Matthew Cooper; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Sarah Sturman Dale/Minneapolis; J.F.O. McAllister/London; Viveca Novak; Margot Roosevelt/Los Angeles; and Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington
...wondering whether combining porn and economics makes economics interesting or porn boring, it's the former.) He follows the money down some dark alleys: into peep shows and prisons, subterranean high-tech hydroponic pot farms and camouflaged, garbage-strewn encampments of illegal Mexican farmworkers. He introduces us to Reuben Sturman, a humble Cleveland comic-book salesman who became the founding father of America's $10 billion porn industry and who deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured loser who got a life sentence--without parole--for his peripheral role in one marijuana deal...
...Reuben Sturman has built an empire that reportedly grosses $1 million a day from the sale of lewd magazines, videos and "marital aids," but federal prosecutors aren't letting him enjoy his wealth. Identified in a 1986 presidential report as the world's leading purveyor of X-rated materials, Sturman, 67, has been the target of three federal obscenity prosecutions. Last week a Las Vegas jury was unable to reach a verdict in Sturman's most recent trial, on nine counts of racketeering, conspiracy and obscenity, and found him not guilty of one charge of transporting an indecent videotape across...
...nearly 70 hours of deliberations over nine days, jurors could not unanimously agree that videos like Animal Tapes 1-6, which depicts bestiality, and Dr. Bizzaro, a film that includes incest scenes, were obscene. Sturman, a cleanliness freak who attended the trial in a surgical mask, claims he is the subject of a vendetta by prosecutors and the IRS, which previously seized his Rolls-Royce as part payment for the more than $15 million he owed in penalties stemming from a 1989 tax-evasion conviction...
...Harvard Committee for a Just Supreme Court is chaired by Gerber, Schwartz, Gillian Darlow '89, and Jennifer L. Sturman '91. The committee has received funding and support from the Massachusetts Teachers' Association and from the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...