Word: lee
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...Meanwhile, the costs of running the shelter are set to increase greatly this year due to salary raises for the shelter's security guards and the costs of improved heating systems and other features after the renovations, according to Administrative Director Lee M. Hampton...
...title says it all, or perhaps too much: a "simple and unadorned melody," as the author explains it, announcing his supposedly humble intentions. There are some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This time we're in Colorado cattle country, with Ike and Bobby Guthrie, ages nine and 10; their father Tom; two bachelor farmers, Harold and Raymond McPheron; and Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to go. Once the McPherons agree to care for Victoria, Haruf has roped in his plot...
Hoping to nudge the Justice Department into filing charges against fired nuclear-weapons expert Wen Ho Lee, officials at the Department of Energy are about to declassify some highly secret documents about the nature of Lee's work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. According to sources familiar with the case, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has told aides that excessive secrecy should not stand in the way of charging Lee for downloading to an unsecure computer the so-called legacy codes that describe the performance of the U.S. nuclear arsenal...
Though the FBI has not found evidence to support an espionage indictment against Lee, Justice officials are considering charging him under a lesser statute that makes it a federal felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to handle national defense information with "gross negligence." Richardson and FBI officials are said to be eager to see Lee indicted, not only to sanction him for downloading the legacy codes but also to pressure him to talk about why he did so and with whom, if anyone, he shared the data...
...wrong target here," says TIME correspondent Viveca Novak. "But the government wouldn?t proceed unless it had a very strong case." After all, despite the political pressure over the Chinese nuclear spying allegations, lack of evidence restrained Justice from pressing charges against Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, which suggests the department has strong evidence against the Boeing-owned company. Indeed, NBC News has reported an unnamed official claiming that a "secret witness" from inside the company will testify that McDonnell Douglas knew the equipment was being diverted to companies other than the one specified in its export license...