Word: agent
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Because the baseball season ended so abruptly, Sanders, who had become a free agent after five years with the Atlanta Falcons, was able to shop himself around to N.F.L. teams just a few games into the season. Several teams wanted him, but it came down to the money offered by the New Orleans Saints-$17 million over four years-or the possibility offered by the 49ers, who were also willing to give him $1.134 million this year, with an additional $750,000 thrown in if they made the Super Bowl...
...Republicans and Democrats.'' Though the G.O.P.'s Contract with America picks up several of U.W.S.A.'s causes, he pointed out, it omits others. When he asked for opinions from the floor, virtually every voice condemned the major parties as hopelessly out of touch. Agnes James, 58, a real estate agent with five children, promised, ``We will provide a focus for people who are disgusted with their government and unable to express their frustration in other ways.'' For James, and several other Perot followers in New Jersey, the exercise is already real. They are running for the state assembly...
Prosecutors say Fitzpatrick, 34, tipped off an FBI agent and agreed to inform on Shabazz last July after she let him in on her desire to kill Farrakhan, a man suspected by many--including Malcolm's widow Betty--of having something to do with her father's 1965 assassination. Friends of Shabazz's say Fitzpatrick, who was arrested for cocaine possession in late 1993, lured her into planning a crime so he could offer her up to prosecutors in return for leniency on the drug charge...
Whether he's a valuable informer or an agent provocateur, Fitzpatrick has a way of popping up wherever a fuse is burning. As a teenager at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, where Shabazz was also a student, Fitzpatrick, the son of an Irish union organizer and a Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group...
Democrats weren't the only ones complaining last week. Rival publishers said the price for the book, which was sold by Gingrich's agent in a telephone auction on Dec. 20, rose breathtakingly fast, keeping it out of their reach. "There was no time to do anything," said Stephen Rubin, president of Doubleday. However, publishing executives attribute the high price to HarperCollins' zeal, rather than any rigging of the auction process...