Word: laxness
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...protection). For the moment, Max is safely secreted with a friend in the countryside, beyond the jurisdiction of the Beijing municipality's strict rules limiting each city household to a single dog, and limiting its size. While the regulations have existed in various forms for years, enforcement has been lax until recently. Many owners of oversize dogs had previously simply walked their German shepherds and golden retrievers under cover darkness. But a recent crackdown by Beijing police - ostensibly aimed at curbing rabies, a rash of attacks and other canine nuisances - has dog owners fearful that their dogs will be confiscated...
...plots around the world, including the "Millennium Bomb" plot aimed at Los Angeles International airport in 2000. Yet, as things stand, Abu Doha looks set to be freed from prison in Britain and deported on immigration violations, after the U.S dropped its bid to extradite him over the LAX plot...
...a.k.a. "The Doctor," Rachid, Amar Makhlolif, and Didier Ajuelo) was arrested in February 2001 while trying to travel from London to Saudi Arabia on a fake passport. Six months later, the U.S. filed an extradition request after a Federal grand jury indicted Doha as a co-conspirator in the LAX plot, based on evidence and an affidavit signed by would-be bomber Ahmed Ressam that Doha had overseen the attempted attack. "[Doha] actually moved Ressam from Afghanistan back to Canada" to plan and execute the Millennium bombing, explains a senior U.S. intelligence official. But after initially sharing his knowledge...
...PETER BHAKTA, former contestant on The Apprentice and Republican candidate for Congress from Pennsylvania, who paraded an elephant and a mariachi band through the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico frontier to make a statement about lax border control...
Second, the lax security provided by campus police was deplorable. Just an hour into the event, so many non-Harvard students had smuggled themselves in, we felt like we were in an introductory algebra course at the Extension School. Just smelling these commoners made us want to run home and take a shower in rubbing alcohol with a steel wool loofah...