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...reach Col. Lindbergh himself, so he enlisted the aid of two fellow townsmen who knew the family. The triumvirate repeatedly maintained that they were dealing with a different group from the one which "Jafsie" Condon encountered. Cols. Lindbergh and Breckinridge appeared to put most faith in the "Jafsie" trail. With Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dobson-Peacock operating last week in the same area as Col. Lindbergh, there was inference that the two trails were beginning to converge...
...Social Security, the key focus of the President?s second-term domestic agenda, the White House has problems of its own. On the campaign trail, President Bush avoided getting specific on how he?d change Social Security, talking only in vague terms about an "ownership society" and his determination to grab hold of the "third rail of American politics." Showing voters a detailed plan on Social Security could have sent Bush back to Crawford, Texas permanently. But having avoided airing specific proposals during the election, whatever plans he now puts forward don?t carry much of a public mandate...
...first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of one of her parents—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...
...kind of given of the study of Larry…that he left a trail of bodies behind him at Treasury—and yet I failed to discover that trail of bodies,” Traub says. “There were lots of references to bruised feelings, but nothing of the order of magnitude of what’s happened at Harvard...
...committee raises questions about research that Bellesiles claims to have conducted in Contra Costa, Calif.; East Point, Ga.; Salt Lake City, Utah, and Rutland County, Vt., as well as several Massachusetts courthouses. The report outlines a cross-country trail of unprofessional conduct. Yes, the committee only found evidence of intentional falsification on one page—but the committee documented examples of “carelessness” and substandard scholarship throughout Bellesiles’ book...