Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marlene Navarro, a petite, ripe-breasted beauty in her 30s who was known to friends as "the hummingbird." Navarro was a Colombian who had studied at the Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt DEA agent had blown...
Scientists at the School of Public Health had previously found that CGRP inhibited the immune response of macrophages, the body's scavengers which destroy foreign substances. CGRP has also been suggested as a possible therapeutic agent to regulate immune responses in the skin...
David S. Joerg '94 said he and other Lampoon staffers kept the same ticket agent on the phone for an hour and a half...
Four weeks ago, O'Brien's brand-new agent (he's a year younger than his client) suggested to Michaels that they make Conan the host. For Michaels, it was evidently an epiphany; to NBC, it was madness. But since Michaels is, in NBC's desperate post-Tartikoff era, the only putative in-house genius, his notion was not summarily dismissed. A few days later, O'Brien, with no preparation and no cue cards, hosted his make-believe show on the Tonight show set. "The kid is no pro," says an NBC programmer who watched the test, but immediately...
...dicey, potential-conflict-of- interest part -- Michaels) to broach the Late Night job. According to Shandling's people, NBC was willing to pay him $5 million a year. Last Monday morning, however, Shandling, having dithered for two weeks, turned down the job, and before lunch O'Brien's agent got NBC's phone call: $1 million plus, a one-year contract, take it or leave it -- and by the way, Conan will be taping a guest shot on Leno in six hours...