Word: probe
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Last month the DOJ dropped perhaps the biggest bombshell. While saying that the settlement could breathe life into millions of unavailable works, the government also said the deal raised "significant legal concerns," and was the target of an antitrust probe...
...most recent anti-South probe began in September, after authorities caught a group of students in a university computer lab watching a new South Korean disaster film, Haeundae, according to the North Korean Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS), the Seoul-based defectors' organization that Myung now manages. The group says it learned of the arrests from an antigovernment cell at a North Korean university, which they regularly contact to gather information from inside the hermit state. Inspection teams have also been purging border cities where the movies are smuggled in, and even executing some smugglers in public as a warning, according...
...lead-up to the launch had already produced a YouTube moment. On Tuesday, in the minutes before the expected takeoff, engineers were scheduled to pull on a lanyard to yank off a little red sock protecting a probe atop the rocket's nose. The yank cleared the probe, but the sock caught on something at the top of the rocket, something an amused NASA spokesman later insisted hadn't occurred in 500 practice runs. It took nine minutes of mostly close-up, viral-video-quality tugging before the dangling sock released, even as engineers debated whether the snafu amounted...
...Other issues may also hamper the fresh probe. Richard Marquise, who was the FBI special agent in charge of the U.S. investigation into the bombing, tells TIME that the inquiry may be hindered by the fact that most of the investigators in the original case, him and Henderson included, have retired. He says "fresh eyes" can often uncover leads that were missed the first time around, but adds, "I have always believed that police and prosecutors often err when not using 'old eyes' in addition to new ones." (Read "Was Oil Part of a Deal for the Lockerbie Bomber...
...Guanglei told reporters that 16 top police and judiciary officials were involved in the investigation, including Chongqing's top judicial official, Wen Qiang. He has been accused of protecting businesses in real estate, prostitution, gambling, transportation and illegal loans. Another three cases are still under way. (Read "Could Corruption Probe Linked to Son Hurt...