Word: agent
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...Texas, says federal fish and wildlife agent Jim Stinebaugh, canned hunts are quick and dirty, most of them the work of "fly-by-night promoters who find a cat at an exotic-animal auction and then put a deal together." Two hunting guides, Daniel Lee Moody and Ronald Terrell McCloud, were indicted in San Antonio last April for unlawfully conspiring to sell and transport a black leopard; McCloud has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. A sickening videotape shows the leopard being released from a cage and running under a nearby pickup truck. A pack of dogs flushed...
...place of Walesa, Harvard invited novelist-poet Carlos Fuentes to speak at Commencement. Fuentes had also been an ambassador to Mexico from France. According to Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, Fuentes had at one time been suspected of being a Soviet agent by the CIA and was denied a visa to the U.S. during the 1960s...
...have permeated the collective unconscious of fortysomething producers forced to face mortality through the death of their parents and the tragic toll of colleagues who have died of AIDS. "Death is the great leveler," says Josh Baran, a former Zen teacher turned publicist. "Your plastic surgeon, lawyer, trainer and agent can't save you. Thus, it has to be confronted. These movies are an ego trip. Hollywood wants to remain forever young, and what better way than to extend yourself into another life...
...attack does, however, present the left with some rather exquisite problems of political correctness. After all, Columbus was an agent of Spain, and his most direct legacy is Hispanic America. The denunciation of the Spanish legacy as one of cruelty and greed has moved one Hispanic leader to call the NCC's resolution "a racist depreciation of the heritages of most of today's American peoples, especially Hispanics...
...Patrick, 23, a Rhode Island legislator, was truthful about what he knew and when he knew it. The first lie was told when the police showed up at the Kennedy home while the family was preparing for lunch, shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday. William Barry, a former FBI agent who was a guest for the weekend, answered the door and told the officers that the Senator was not there and that his nephew might have already left town. In fact, both men were at the house, and a servant later told investigators that Barry and the Senator conferred...