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...Attorney General felt compelled to take a lie-detector test in connection with an internal-leak investigation that implicated top aides. The probe left ! many loyalists questioning his leadership...
Even after Bennett had left the Department of Education, Bok continued to paint a picture of higher education under siege, pointing to ongoing budget cuts, cynicism about the academy and, most recently, a federal probe into colleges' financial practices...
LIGO will be 100 to 1,000 times as sensitive as existing gravity-wave detectors. That should be enough not only to confirm relativity but also to probe deeply into the most violent processes in the cosmos, including ) exploding supernovas, collisions between black holes, and "starquakes" on the semisolid surfaces of neutron stars. All of these phenomena are believed to send out characteristic bursts of gravity waves. Says Rochus Vogt, the Caltech physics professor who heads the joint M.I.T.-Caltech team that will build LIGO: "We are going to look at a whole new force as a transmitter of signals...
...unclear whether financial aid practices are still a major part of the probe, since the Justice Department is--temporarily, at least--focusing its investigation on tuition setting...
...lawyer added that the colleges in the overlap groups should not breathe easy yet, since the probe could turn back toward financial aid at any time...