Word: agent
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...Literature shouldn't be mistaken for an exact description of the human condition or an agent for promoting morality, he adds...
...kind of money. We're just going to go out of business," says Pisa, who got a letter from American Airlines demanding $16,000 for stolen tickets written on her ticket stock. The airline later relented because Pisa had followed recommended security guidelines. But Georgette Bouland-Anthe, a travel agent in Libertyville, Ill., who lost 6,000 blank tickets to the ring and owes the airlines $300,000, was forced to close her seven-year-old Travel Incentives Inc. "The airlines want payment," says Bouland-Anthe. "I am trying to get my nerves back in order after being in this...
...Weekend in 1995, two Harvard Medical School students lured a prospective College student to a party near the Longwood campus. Slipping heavy sedatives into the prefrosh's drink, the physicians-in-training then dragged him to a laboratory classroom, removed his kidneys for sale to an illegal organ-donation agent, and placed his kidney-less body in a bathtub packed with ice in a motel room in Allston. The unsuspecting high school senior woke up just in time to follow the instructions, written in lipstick on his chest: "Call 9-1-1 or you will die." The two medical students...
...Actress Minnie Driver trapped in elevator, rescued by former uber-agent Mike Ovitz...
...Republican, will nonetheless be remembered for his liberal instincts, most famously his 1973 majority opinion that legalized abortion. The impact of that decision was explosive and enduring. Blackmun himself received some 60,000 pieces of hate mail (all of which he read) that called him a murderer and an agent of genocide...