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...voices while searching Dutroux's cellar but did not realize children were imprisoned there. Police also accepted Dutroux's explanation that the construction they saw was for a new drainage system, when in fact he was creating cells to house his kidnap victims. Prosecutors were criticized for taking a lax approach to the case, treating the missing girls' parents as annoyances. Left unanswered was the most disturbing question -- whether Dutroux, an unemployed electrician who still managed to maintain several homes, and others received official protection from highly-placed political figures. Commissioners said only that they had uncovered "indications of possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police Incompetence Aided Sex Ring | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

...Tamraz story broke Monday morning, guaranteeing another round of charges of lax management and another delay in the hearings. At 4:30 p.m., Lake went to the Oval Office to tell Clinton he wanted to pull his nomination. It was an emotional meeting. Clinton was frustrated and angry. He hugged Lake twice and tried to talk him out of his decision. When Clinton vowed to mount a yearlong fight, Lake politely cut him off. His mind was made up, and he didn't want to debate the President on it. That night Lake released his resignation letter, complaining about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PIPELINE TO THE PRESIDENT | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

Even if Clinton is telling the truth about being kept in the dark, his administration's lax policies in granting access to the White House and his oversight of those policies are nonetheless disturbing. Clinton is a shrewd, seasoned politician who has surrounded himself with competent aides, so it is difficult to believe that neither he nor members of his staff ever questioned whether the DNC's many donors and solicitors with ties to Southeast Asian interests might be working with ulterior motives...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Where Politics, Ethics Collide | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

...quietly checked into an exclusive (naturally) cow-based Saskatchewan cloning spa--a spa combining the best of Saskatchewan's cattle country with Canada's lax cloning laws. My p.r. staff told folks I was up in the fresh air of Lake Tahoe battling chronic-fatigue syndrome triggered by silicone migration--a plausible alibi if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLONE, CLONE ON THE RANGE | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Soon, the system became indispensible to the workings of the small group. Soon, the system began to break down. The turtle had become lax in maintaining the network that connected the machines, with the result that pupils' papers disappeared in transit; elders researching in obscure parts of the swamp got lost forever because their pheromone cries for help were never received (many elders who had refused to use the system from the start were spared this fate, but they had been, by wide consensus lost already); in short, the hub began to dissolve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Humorous Fable on the Friday Collapse of the Mail Server | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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