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...course, the FBI should have turned them over in the first place (which seems to have been a slipup rather than a malevolent plot). And one could argue that the bureau was just doing its job when it finally admitted the mistake. But the FBI didn't get caught in the act; it came forward and confessed its error. It behaved honorably. Would the problem ever have surfaced had the Justice Department decided not to do the right thing? Who would have caught them? And if some enterprising journalist did break the story years from now, who would care...
...sentence for racketeering; in Springfield, Mo. Corallo, former boss of the Lucchese family, was known as Tony Ducks for ducking subpoenas; he also ducked the limelight. Passionate about secrecy, he sat impassive in court, "like one of these big stone idols" said a prosecutor, as tapes played his rare slipup: a bugged 1982 talk with his driver on Mob control of New York City's construction industry...
...never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them--other than goat sacrificing." He adds that last part with a minor-key smile that doesn't quite make it through all the paces. (Jackpot! A slipup in front of a reporter! Pitt's movies will now be boycotted by Satanists and practitioners of Santeria...
...important as this news was to volcano experts and the people of Anchorage, just 80 miles from Mount Spurr, the volcano study was perhaps the least noteworthy part of the robot's mission. Despite the final slipup, which toppled Dante and left it stranded on the steep mountain slope, the 10-day trek went a long way toward proving the potential of a technology that could let humans explore a wide range of sites too hazardous to visit in person -- other volcanoes, deep caves, the barren wastes of Antarctica, the ocean floor and even the surfaces of the moon...
...slipup mars a robot's successful visit into a volcano...