Then the boy would feel confident and deep-rooted in his trust in God, and turn away from the garret window, where he had been waching the busy house-sparrows, with a courage and strong-heartedness that were ready to face all the evils and trials in the world.

His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood.

By all accounts a first-rate legal mind and a hypercautious aide whose discretion frustrated reporters, he is charged with repeatedly lying to a grand jury and to the F.B.I. about his leaks to the news media in the battle over Iraq war intelligence.

Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems.