Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of focusing on the poor condition of his friend, Simpson seemed intent on pushing Guerrero further into his cocaine quicksand. Besides connecting Guerrero with another cocaine incident, the purpose of Simpson's emergency telephone call is just not clear. Also puzzling is the confused identity of the woman, first said to be Simpson's girlfriend, then changed to an unidentified friend. Asked about it, Simpson said, "There was a disturbance that I thought they should know about. It had nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my girlfriend" and added, "so don't go there...
...like stumbling into electronic quicksand: every attempt to escape only drew unsuspecting Net surfers, including children, more deeply into Web pages full of explicit sex. That lurid webscam, allegedly cooked up by a Portuguese hacker and an Australian company, was halted last week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling...
...journey the album depicts parallels Reznor's own rocky one. The mind-whammy of sudden celebrity, the devastating 1997 death of the grandmother who raised him in his hometown of Mercer, Pa., and the overwhelming pressure to come up with another hit all converged to push Reznor into a quicksand of depression. "I was in a bad place," he recalls. "I couldn't work. I couldn't look in the mirror." Seldom listening to radio, tuning in to MTV "only to remind myself not what to do," he shut himself off from the world. For weeks he avoided the studio...
...three weeks of shouting, pleading diplomacy at Dayton, Ohio, and 20,000 U.S. troops to help enforce the peace. Now will the U.S. have to pay the same to end the killing in Kosovo? The Clinton Administration has long winced at the idea of going that far into the quicksand of Serbia's Kosovo province. But in defiance of the U.S.-brokered October cease-fire, the Serbs continue to massacre ethnic Albanians, and the implacable rebels keep smuggling in weaponry to pick off Serb forces, as both sides ready for a spring onslaught. So, last week the Clinton Administration...
That hardly mattered to the outcome, since minds were made up before the debate began, but it reinforced the sense that this is a headlong descent into quicksand. Newt Gingrich had to raise voice and gavel repeatedly to be heard over chattering staffers and milling members. Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde invoked "our awesome and terrible responsibility," as he likened the offenses President Clinton allegedly committed by concealing his dalliance with Lewinsky to the abuses of government perpetrated by Richard Nixon. "This isn't about sexual misconduct any more than Watergate was about a third-rate burglary," proclaimed Hyde...