Word: ringed
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...Justice Department arrested dozens of people after the FBI cracked a nationwide computer child porn ring. Federal agents conducted a two-year investigation of the pornographers, who used America Online to distribute child pornography and kidnap minors. The Justice Department said that while its investigation centered on AOL, the nation's largest online service with 3.5 million subscribers, agents have found pornography on all the major services. American Online says it alerted authorities, and said that while conversations between members are private, it does not knowingly tolerate the use of its network for illegal activities...
...most powerful politicians in Washington. This week three of his Senate colleagues plan to challenge D'Amato's power, but the odds are against them. He is a bare-knuckle player even by the raucous standards of Capitol Hill, a club fighter who lives for the ring. He curses and cajoles, bestowing favors and exacting revenge, cutting his endless, beloved deals: a compromise to push through a bill, an infusion of cash for an ally's campaign, a raise for someone else's staff member--anything to prove his power and display his reach...
...past Hamas publicly celebrated successful suicide bombers, but it was the Israelis who, after their investigation of Issa's ring, announced the identities of Sufiyan Jabbarin, 26, the Jerusalem bomber, and his Ramat Gan counterpart, Labib Azzam, 22. Hamas' silence, activists say, was meant to conceal the identities of the bombers' accomplices. "We don't want Israeli security to know the circles from which we are operating," says Amjad, who is connected to the Hamas military wing in the Gaza Strip...
...Harbin, China. Using a camera concealed in the buttonhole of a gaudy sport jacket, Galster had the pleasure of videotaping the bandits as they told him they had to be careful because they had read about an American man and Chinese woman who had busted a rhino-horn ring in Wuchuan...
ROBERT HUGHES' ATTACK ON CRITICS OF the NEA and NEH has an all too familiar ring. In its partisanship and preference for diatribe over argument, it resembles much of what today passes for scholarship and sometimes art. While a case can be made for preserving the endowments, Hughes' shallow, sneering polemic does it little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton...