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However, given mistakes apparently made in securing the crime scene, investigators now caution that the long-awaited DNA results (some from DNA found under the nails) may not make the case. Things could then drift for months or longer. "I'll be surprised if the Ramseys are ever charged," says Bob Miller, a former U.S. attorney in Denver. A grand jury with subpoena powers might have speeded up the case, but now it may be too late. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News reported excerpts from the ransom note, which began, "Listen carefully, the two gentlemen who have your daughter...
...really comfortable," says Habib. "You're studying something that's maybe not so interesting, so you drift...
...would be a mistake, however, to think of TV history as one long, uninterrupted drift toward untrammeled license. Moral values are, of course, relative. Party of Five features yards of premarital sex, yet is also a warmer celebration of family bonds than, say, Leave It to Beaver or The Donna Reed Show. Today there are new taboos. "Nobody's going to do abortion on a sitcom today, but Maude did it back in 1972," says Bruce Helford, co-creator and executive producer of The Drew Carey Show. He's referring to the famous episodes of Maude in which Bea Arthur...
...These Friends of Mine, the sitcom has since stumbled through a number of cast, staff and time-slot changes, never quite jelling creatively, even by DeGeneres' estimation, and settling into the ratings' upper midrange. A major problem has been the indistinct character of Ellen Morgan, who seems to drift wackily through each show without ever offering much in the way of believable motivation, even in the elastic sense that usually applies to sitcoms. For a while she owned a bookstore, but the profession seemed more an arbitrary choice to inject "workplace humor." After the second season she stopped dating--some...
Powell says the project "fit with my priorities," but he didn't want to be involved in a fuzzy-headed launch of a feel-good balloon that would simply drift away. "I said no to offers to chair studies, to sit on boards to examine the cities. I wanted concrete goals, a focus on kids, deliverable results and a way to continue beyond the summit." Convinced that Chambers and the other organizers wanted those things as well, he agreed to join Clinton and Bush at a White House ceremony on Jan. 24 to announce the summit...