If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

Our view is that defamation should never be a criminal offense. It's not a crime. If in the exercise of free speech you offend someone or defame someone . . . it's a civil matter between the journalist and the person who was allegedly defamed.

Camaraderie ends when crime begins.

We have been tracking the increasing trend towards technical casino crime for some years now and are pleased that our internal procedures proved successful once again.

We don't feel there is sufficient evidence to charge the officers with any type of crime.

With the exception of Rwanda in 1994 and Cambodia in 1975, you would be hard-pressed to find a crime scene anywhere in the world, since World War II, where a defenseless civilian population has been assaulted with such ferocity and criminal intent, and suffered so many multiple violations of international humanitarian law in such a short period of time, as in Kosovo since mid-March 1999,