I came to America 38 years ago from India, where I was born and raised. In all these years here -- and in dozens of countries I have visited as a journalist -- I've never had anything stolen from me. Call me lucky. The luck ran out this week. I discovered that an expensive IBM laptop computer was missing from my study. It had been sitting in its case on a sofa for several weeks, since I hadn't an occasion to use it; at home I generally use my desktop computer -- the laptop is mostly for tr...