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Fast and perhaps loose, it now turns out. Late last month, Indyk's boss, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, suspended his security clearance after State Department security agents accused him of sloppy handling of classified documents for the past five years. The FBI has been called in to probe allegations that Indyk improperly took classified material home, talked about sensitive subjects in his car within earshot of his Israeli driver and typed confidential reports on an unclassified laptop computer. State Department sources say Indyk was warned months ago that he was violating regulations but that he allegedly continued to flout...
...will appear early in each month of the school year--a commitment of 54 extra news pages. At the same time, we'll keep bringing you our regular weekly coverage of education, including news and enterprising features. But our new special section allows us the time and space to probe deeper. We want to look at ideas that work, classroom heroes who are making a difference and assumptions that need to be explored. And we've given that assignment to a team of journalists who are steeped in the culture of teaching...
...about $2,000--than the laptops doled out by schools in recent years, the hand-held computers give students Internet access and allow teachers to "beam" them their grades and homework assignments. Add-ons include a "due yesterday" feature that dings when schoolwork is tardy and an attachable probe that measures pH in science labs. At River Hill High School, in Clarksville, Md., parents can use their children's devices to check on grades. But some students at other schools have gravitated toward less scholarly applications--beaming notes to one another in class...
While the pot boiled in Washington, the FBI's probe in New Mexico was going nowhere in 1998. At one point, the bureau allowed the DOE to have Lee polygraphed by a private security firm, which concluded that Lee was telling the truth. When DOE and FBI agents looking at the same results disagreed, alarmed DOE officials assigned Lee to another, unclassified job. The feds still lacked any evidence that Lee had spied or even stolen anything, and so they kept their sleuths on the case...
Then, on March 6, 1999, the New York Times disclosed the FBI probe without mentioning Lee's name. The next day, FBI agents rushed to his home to "sweat him" before he clammed up completely. A confused Lee owned up to nothing, and on March 8 Richardson fired him for unrelated security violations turned up during the W-88 investigation. His name was leaked to the press, and he became known as a "suspected Chinese spy." He still had not been charged...