Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shake-up. On Jan. 20 the Justice Department gave FBI officials a preliminary report that found errors, sloppiness and poor management in the agency's crime lab. The investigation had its origins in charges made since the mid-1980s by Frederic Whitehurst, a senior chemist. The report is still secret, but Justice and FBI officials say that while it found nothing illegal, it did identify some serious lapses. FBI Director Louis Freeh has already launched reforms. Meanwhile, the agency announced that three bomb investigators have been removed from their positions and that Whitehurst has been suspended with...
...highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear, and no one will ever know what happened"; and his friend's indistinct last words as officers shoved Biko...
...years ago a group of first years decided that the best way to decide blocking groups was to follow an elaborate voting procedure using a secret ballot...
Summer programs are the best-kept secret of PBHA," said Treasurer Judy Hung '99. "We have ten full-time, 9-4 day camps for kids ages 6 to 14. There's a refugee youth summer enrichment program, language programs--and everyone who works gets a $2,700 stipend...
...unfortunate matter of Dick Morris' book, for instance," the press guardian would say, "if Random House paid Dick Morris for having taken notes in secret on the person he was working for and the Star paid Sherry Rowlands for having taken notes in secret on the person she was working for, why is Random House treated so much more respectfully in the press than the Star...