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...files appeared to be intact, they said they could not determine if any had been copied. The computer is situated in the district attorney's office, but according to authorities, the room was not broken into. Officials said security measures have been tightened as computer experts and police comb the system for signs of tampering. But TIME's Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury says the damage is already done: "It's just one more chapter in this comedy of errors. Nearly all the evidence has already been compromised. It's really looking doubtful whether this thing is ever going...
...home. She likes to go late at night, after Sam is asleep, for some solitude among the bargains. But on this Saturday morning she's there by 11, filling her cart with four winter shirts for her son, four ladies' shirts, baby wipes and formula, paper towels, a flea comb for her two cats, 136 diapers, and a box of graham crackers to occupy Sam, who's strapped happily into the front of the cart. The total comes to $146.13. "I thought," she says as she writes the check, "that it would be more...
...Schindler's List, the making of which must have been a deeply emotional experience. Ever since the film's release, the actor has immersed himself almost obsessively in the history of the Holocaust. He keeps a hoard of related memoirs by his bedside but continues to comb bookshops for that "survivor's story I may have not read." He claims he needed to make Nell, the 1994 film in which he co-starred with Jodie Foster, "as a break from the deadlock of reading these stories...
...when it came to pointing a finger at possible suspects last week, U.S. authorities recommended, in Bill Clinton's words, "keeping an open mind." Outside the public spotlight, however, it was a different story. The CIA immediately fired off secret cables to its foreign stations, ordering intelligence officers to comb their sources for leads. Agents quietly began checking the Athens airport, where the TWA flight originated, for security breaches. The names of all the passengers who flew the Athens-to-New York City leg, as well as those who boarded the plane in New York, were traced through computerized data...
...their lives dealing with unfamiliar procedures which led to "uncharacteristic mistakes." "There is a sad satisfaction in the Air Force that people are being held accountable for obvious screw-ups," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "And the big heads were the first to roll. Now an officer appointed to comb the results of the investigation will determine if other people in the chain of command should also be held accountable." President Clinton called the report brutally honest: "Some steps have already been taken to avert the possibility that any of these errors can be made again, and I am convinced...