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...avoid their prefectees like the plague anywhere alcohol is served. “Because of the perception of strict enforcement of drinking rules,” says a former assistant dean of freshmen who spoke on condition of anonymity, “freshmen more than anyone else tend to conceal their drinking in ways that may be more harmful—such as drinking more quickly or drinking at off-campus locations that may be less safe...
...also seldom applied because it sets such a high burden of proof. Prosecutors must show that a leaker had access to classified information and knew that its release would unveil someone whose identity the government was trying to conceal. The law provides a mechanism to punish someone who demonstrates a "pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents." The penalties: up to 10 years in jail and a stiff fine...
...were so many people so sure that Saddam had WMD? In part, of course, because he did once have them--and until challenged by U.N. inspectors after the first Gulf War had tried to conceal them. There may, however, have been another reason: Saddam himself apparently thought he had them. Sources tell TIME that Western intelligence intercepted communications from Saddam that indicated he was taking a keen interest in the progress of ongoing WMD programs. It may be that evidence of such programs will yet turn up. Or possibly Saddam may have been duped by his own scientists, who didn...
...henchmen all make essentially the same claim: that Iraq's once massive unconventional-weapons program was destroyed or dismantled in the 1990s and never rebuilt; that officials destroyed or never kept the documents that would prove it; that the shell games Saddam played with U.N. inspectors were designed to conceal his progress on conventional weapons systems--missiles, air defenses, radar--not biological or chemical programs; and that even Saddam, a sucker for a new gadget or invention or toxin, may not have known what he actually had or, more to the point, didn't have. It would be an irony...
...Operations. In that office he oversaw 80,000 troops in 17 military operations ... 'The best way to use force is to show force in order not to use it,' he told TIME ... An American official who witnessed Annan's negotiating technique adds that 'he's very mysterious. He can conceal what he is really thinking in a beautiful...