We are behind in our courtroom security, ... We haven’t had anything serious happen, but we want to try to prevent this.

Many companies accept publicly available information such as a Social Security number as a means of [partly] authenticating a user. This is a typical policy problem where government, law enforcement and the technology industry need to work together to encourage proper authentication methods.

He (Annan) expects that what emerges from these talks, he will be able to sell to the (U.N.) Security Council.

I still love it. I am not tempted yet.

[He] put his foot in his mouth, and then we told him, 'As long as you have your foot in your mouth, take a big bite out of your toe.' And he backed down.

For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jefferson's 'purity,' categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those 'revelations,' some of them have retreated from their former position of 'It didn't happen' only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. That's part of what I wanted to convey by 'the American way' of the title.