Brothers

A story from this mornings news on NPR (warning: I'll likely preface a lot of posts with a similar phrase) was an interview with one of the brothers of the now-deceased suspect in the anthrax scare from 2001, Bruce Ivens. At first, Ivens's brother, Charles, maintained Bruce's innocence...until he read the FBI's affidavit. It was really kind of heart-wrenching to hear a man's opinion of his brother change in the course of an interview.

This brings up a couple of issues:

• First off, How well do you know your brother?


• I've made up my mind about a man's innocence or guilt in multiple trials that have come across the news. OJ, this guy, Enron execs...How much evidence did I thoughtfully consider? Hmm...whatever was on the news.


• If this man barely knew whether or not his brother was a bio-terrorist or not, how well do we know anybody? How well can we know anybody? How can we know others, people, better?

The link to the NPR story is below:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93483076