Word: faults
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...French officials are concerned, the case is closed: The crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul two years ago was Paul's fault, and not that of the nine photographers pursuing the car through the Paris streets. In his decision, released Friday, Judge Herv? Stephan said that the accident was "due to the fact that the driver of the car was inebriated and under the effects of drugs incompatible with alcohol, which did not allow him to maintain control of his vehicle." Fayed was also responsible, the judge ruled, for ordering a drunken Paul to drive their...
...Jesse's two brothers, Lim adds with regret. Jesse, outed as a tough guy, tells all to the cops, a quiver in his throat. If he goes to jail instead of going on the Mormon mission abroad that he's been counting on, Lim says, it's his own fault. "I sure wish I understood what this Straight Edge was all about...
...comparisons were made to the case of nuclear weapons scientist WEN HO LEE, a suspect in China's apparent theft of data on the W-88 warhead. Lee downloaded sensitive nuclear "legacy codes" to his personal computer. The intelligence official, however, said there is an important difference. Deutch's fault, he said, was composing classified documents on an unsecured terminal. No downloading was involved. As for the Lee case, ROBERT VROOMAN, former head of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory, charged last week that ethnic bias led investigators to focus on the Asian American. But officials say Vrooman helped...
Dick Holbrooke is in the Balkans cracking his whip, but the U.S. ambassador?s diplomatic colleagues at the U.N. may resent his message: that is, if Kosovo is a failure, it?ll be the international body?s fault. On a whirlwind tour of the troubled province Monday, Holbrooke warned that Kosovo would be "the ultimate test of the U.N.?s capability and potential," reiterating Washington?s message that Kosovo was now the U.N.?s to lose. Although the limited resources available to the international body have plagued its relief, administrative and civilian policing operations, the fundamental obstacle to winning...
...fallout from the disaster, and to the economic reconstruction that will follow. Whatever lessons are learned in managing the present disaster may well be tested again some time in the future. The country's largest city, Istanbul, whose population has doubled every 10 years since 1955, sits along a fault line and has long been warned to expect a devastating earthquake. "As bad as last week?s earthquake was," says Finkel, "experts agree that it wasn?t the ?big one? that Istanbul?s been warned about...