Word: laxness
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...Vatican has long dismissed all the fuss as "an American problem," as if it plagued no other countries. In the corridors of Rome, prelates disparage the "litigious" nature of U.S. society and blame abusive priests on lax American sexual mores. Complains a Vatican official: "In America there is too much reliance on modern psychology in place of the church's traditional wisdom." Officials say the Pope is greatly pained by the crisis in the U.S. church. But that doesn't mean he is ready or able to confront such an explosive issue. The papacy hates to bend to outside pressure...
...hosting a party for Sarah Brady, the author, with Merrill McLoughlin, of "A Good Fight" (PublicAffairs; April 2). The scene in the Blue Smoke's Jazz Standard Club was pure Arkansas: dark and smoky, with such down-home dishes as BBQ pork and giant onion rings, beer and seemingly lax security. Jim Brady, Sarah Brady's husband, sat out in the audience in his wheelchair, eating ribs. Brady had been incapacitated in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Following that, Sarah became a leading gun-control advocate...
...fourth wife of her husband, Chuck Hunt. She got embroiled in a nasty fight with two Turnpike Authority board members she tried to fire for voting against a toll increase. She was tainted by a patronage scandal at her former employer, Massport and was put on the spot for lax oversight when two of the Sept. 11 terrorists sailed through Logan Airport security. And when the economy went south last year it took the state budget with it, leaving her with a huge shortfall...
Moreover, Horowitz cleverly explained, “You can’t fight suitcase bombs with missiles.” The Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) is also to blame for lax protection against terrorism. Six months after Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi flew two jetliners into the World Trade Center, the Florida flight school that trained the men received paperwork showing that their student visas had been approved. How is it possible that terrorists were able to enter the country on tourist visas and be trained without the paperwork to stay? This is a strong indication that...
...Simply locating an illegal Internet site can be difficult. Pirates can stay one step ahead of the law by storing digital movies on rented servers in countries where copyright enforcement is lax, and it is not difficult to move the operation to another locale if the cops are on your tail. When first informed of the existence of Movie88.com, Taiwanese police initially insisted the site was physically located in the U.S. state of Virginia, not Taiwan...