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WORLD BRIEFING Secret Service scandal not a lone romp WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators investigating the Secret Service prostitu- tion scandal said Wednes- day that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by agents point to a culture of carousing in the agency and urged Director Mark Sulli- van to get past his insistence that the romp in Cartagena was a one-time mistake. The disconnect between the senators and Sullivan reappeared again and again throughout the two-hour hearing, even as the Secret Service chief for the first time apologized for the inci- dent that tarnished the elite presidential protection force. By the end, Sullivan's job appeared secure even as new details emerged that left little doubt, senators said, that a pattern of sexual misbehavior had taken root in the agency. ''He kept saying over and over again that he basi- cally does think this was an isolated incident and I don't think he has any basis for that conclusion,'' said Sen. 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