Word: lax
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...desk. Suggestions? —Annoyed in Adams Dear Annoyed, Do you like this roommate, independent of her possible kleptomania? If you do like her and would like to live with her in the future, feel free to skip down to the third paragraph. If her lax definition of “borrowing” is the last straw, read on: If you are no longer interested in living with her, consider taking a cue from Joey on “Friends” by giving her a pseudo-dose of her own medicine. While...
...opened last summer in the 50 Church St. space vacated by failed restaurant Rock Bottom, Harvard kids were ecstatic to find a new haunt for live music, good food, and cheap drinks. Many frequented Phatt Boys throughout first semester, and the cavernous eatery earned a rep for fun (read: lax carding). Yet today, nearly all remnants of Phatt Boys’s existence have disappeared. The reasons for its shutdown are unclear. An employee at Dado Tea, which abuts the now-vacant lot, claims the place closed due to “bad location of the restaurant, since...
...hefty -- and growing --bill for the war efforts may be getting some new auditors. Over the past three years, Congress has approved $320 billion for military spending over and above the regular Department of Defense budget, which itself has risen about 40% since 2001. But "oversight was lax," contends Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, who sits on the Armed Services Committee. As Pentagon officials head to Capitol Hill next week to start defending this year's $70 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan, there's new scrutiny of where all the cash is going...
...Justice Department has a message for Congress: clean up your house or else we may have to do it for you. A senior federal law enforcement official told TIME that the paralyzed and often lax House ethics committee has created a vacuum that prosecutors won't hesitate to fill. The House?s internal mechanism for keeping corruption in check is "broken," says the official...
...legislative vote may face many of the same organizational and logistical problems that plagued the presidential poll, and there has been little inclination in Haiti's political class to delve too deeply into just how the country's most expensive elections ever could have been conducted with such lax oversight. Preval has intimated that he has proof of the fraud, which can be traced to polling station workers. Those 36,000 positions were prized by members of the various political parties, and Preval may not want to open the lid on that pot, particularly now that the vast majority...