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Selections from the New York Times February 5, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

Although it has been a while since we have posted a selected list of articles from the New York Times, we think the following from today's issue (February 5, 2009) may be of special interest to many of you:

Citing U.S., British Court Blocks Data on Suspect
By RAYMOND BONNER
"The court said the U.S. threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if it released information on a man who says he was tortured in American custody. "

Science Found Wanting in Nation?s Crime Labs
By SOLOMON MOORE
"Forensic evidence is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded, a report found. "

Societal Cost of Meth Use Is Gauged in New Study
By ERIK ECKHOLM
"A new study said that methamphetamine abuse imposed costs of $23.4 billion in 2005, suggesting that the drug takes an economic toll nearly as great as heroin."

Wall St. Pay Moves in Cycles. (Guess Where We Are Now.)
By STEVE LOHR
"With tighter regulations on risk-taking and greater public scrutiny, the pay for top bankers could fall into line with pay for other professions, like doctors and lawyers. "

Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios
By BRIAN STELTER and BRAD STONE
"Widely available broadband access and new streaming sites have made it easy to watch pirated video online."

BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Sometimes One Man Can Live Two Lives
By JANET MASLIN
"The true story of Clarence King, a 19th-century scientist from the highest reaches of New England society, who lived a second life passing as a black man, married to a black woman."

OP-ED COLUMNIST
An Ode to the Stimulus Bill
By GAIL COLLINS
"What?s not to like about the stimulus bill? That it?s messy? My desk is messy. Everything Congress ever touches is messy."

 

 

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).