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...filching five copies of classified documents from the National Archives shortly before he was scheduled to testify before the 9/11 Commission. Berger initially denied taking the documents, which concerned the Clinton administration's response to a 2000 terrorist plot, but eventually pleaded guilty. (Berger did not, as popular mythology would have it, stash the files in his pants or socks on his way out of the library - he used his suit jacket.) Though Berger was disbarred and relieved of his security clearance for three years, he later served as foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton during her run for president...
...text messages, sent to a Harvard student’s cell phone on May 5, makes explicit references to “jak herrer bud” and “CaliMIST,” both known to be popular strains of marijuana, according to an editor from the marijuana publication High Times magazine. The callback number on both messages matches a cell phone number registered to a Denise Cosby of Cambridge, Mass., according to Accurint, a subscription database owned by LexisNexis and used by law enforcement and legal agencies to trace personal information. Phone calls made to that number...
...pools, which are equipped with neck-spray jets, massage nozzles and water-massage recliners. For an additional fee, numerous body treatments are available, too - try the hot-chocolate massage. A beauty salon, two restaurants and a bar are also on-site. This is a modern facility and hugely popular, attracting more than 1,000 customers daily, so get in early. Leibnizstrasse 7, tel: (49-611) 172 9880. (Read TIME's stories about romance on the road...
...Father Knotz revealed that he found the inspiration for his sex guide in another popular pastime: "I compare sex to a football game," he said. "There are games of different leagues, great and wonderful as well as boring and hopeless...
There's something about Burma. Zimbabwe, Laos, North Korea, Sudan, Uzbekistan - all these countries are plagued by repressive rulers. But none of these places grips the popular imagination like this isolated nation in the heartland of Asia. With its thuggish ruling junta and defiant, beautiful opposition leader, Burma inspires unparalleled international sympathy and the passions of do-gooders. Only the Dalai Lama rivals fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi when it comes to dissident magnetism - and, even so, the Tibetan monk has not languished under house arrest for much of the past two decades...