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...referring to petty practical jokes, overpriced office space and silverware theft. By pardoning the greatest tax evader in U.S. history, literally bartering justice for campaign cash, Clinton capped off eight years of scandal with his most foul offense to date...
...HUPD units responded to a report of the attempted theft of a delivery truck at the Harvard Business School...
...good that they must stay home. Too many of the Russian high and mighty have used their positions over the past decade of reform to line their pockets. Graft is universal. Last year an estimated $24.6 billion left Russia, money garnered mostly through bribery, kickbacks and outright theft and sent to private accounts in offshore banks. That's an increase of 30% over 1999, and the total capital drain from Russia over the past decade is more than $250 billion...
...success in breaking a code, but this does not compare with just being able to tap lines and break code with a computer like before," he said. "We raised the bar very high. I predict that if decryption becomes impossible, people will also raise walls against other forms of theft...
...Pellegrini's accompanying story for the actual figures. TK, by the way, is journalistic shorthand for "To Come.") On the other hand, c'mon: A lot of those downloads were in the Supertramp category, songs that nobody would download if they had to actually pay for. So is it theft to take something you wouldn't pay for? Wouldn't economists simply say that for those items the market has decided that the natural price is zero dollars...