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...York Times axed 23 workers for sending what were considered to be obscene e-mails on company computers. "We are on the verge of creating a surveillance society in the workplace," says American Civil Liberties Union associate director Barry Steinhardt. Monitoring advocates reply that the threat of intellectual-property theft, lawsuits and just plain goofing off by employees warrants a little--or a lot of--spying...
...served) and neatly divided by the Atlantic. In England he did classics of British bumble-wit like "Kind Hearts and Coronets," "The Ladykillers," "The Man in the White Suit" and "The Lavender Hill Mob," in which Guinness's milquetoast banker waits his whole life for the perfect gold bullion theft. These were tiny movies, gems of the emotional slapstick at which he was a master...
...Philadelphia last Wednesday afternoon. When officers ran the license plate, the car came up stolen--carjacked more than a week earlier. The chase was on. Behind the wheel of the stolen car was Thomas Jones, a 30-year-old African-American man with a record of assault, burglary and theft convictions. Two patrol cars wove behind Jones, backing off temporarily when he veered onto a sidewalk crowded with mourners from a funeral procession. A few minutes later, Jones crashed into another car, injuring two people. Then he took off on foot, hopped a fence and raced down the streets...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call reporting the theft of a $2,663 binocular telescope from the Dental School...
...This theft, which Jean says "actually happened," was successful--though O'Brien later returned the suit...