Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...
More important than whodunit is the question of how badly the leak damages American security. Some experts say China would eventually have miniaturized its nuclear weapons on its own. That's probably true, but now Beijing has apparently found a shortcut to the most modern technology. Smaller warheads mean Chinese missiles will be lighter, more mobile, easier to hide and able to hit multiple, longer-range targets...
...find the cloud in any silver lining. He was so stressed when he realized what an inept press secretary he was that his face broke out and he grew a beard to hide it. He delayed seeking therapy and antidepressants because he feared an unflattering story would leak to the press...
...that the prosecution of President Clinton is over, get ready for the prosecution, of sorts, of Ken Starr. The independent counsel is on the defensive these days. This week his top spokesman, Charles Bakaly, stepped down--at the same time that Starr asked the Justice Department to investigate a leak from the counsel's office that may have involved Bakaly. The leak in January concerned the revelation that Starr had concluded he had the authority to indict President Clinton while in office. "It looks like Starr may believe that Bakaly was the source of the leak," says TIME Washington correspondent...
Just who is being saved by the dynamic trio's efforts? Unless we cancel the debts of the poorest nations so that resources can be invested in health and education, we are simply bailing water without fixing the leak. STEPHEN VALK Atlanta...