Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday, a security agent for the prince kicked Crimson photographer William H. Bachman '92 in the midsection and threatened to injure another photographer if he continued to take pictures from the sidewalk in front of the hotel, according to Bachman and Gerstein...
Other critics said they had suffered in the collapse of the junk-bond market or had taken pay cuts in the aftermath of corporate buyouts. Claude Daughtry, a real estate agent in Berkeley, complained that he had lost money in the junk-bond debacle and called Milken's fine a travesty. Ronald Cornwall, a Pennsauken, N.J., grocery clerk, said his salary plunged from $33,000 to $24,700 when his employer, Pathmark, was acquired...
...intelligence operations, even if it no longer enjoys the reputation of its early days. But one thing that has changed not at all is its aversion to publicity. Last week Israel went to extraordinary -- and unsuccessful -- lengths to prevent the U.S. publication of a book by a former agent that claims to reveal the service's secrets. In the process, it turned a somewhat dubious book that would probably have been of interest only to intelligence buffs into a best seller, while giving front-page publicity to some of its most embarrassing allegations...
...book, By Way of Deception, was co-written by Victor Ostrovsky, 40, who holds dual Canadian and Israeli citizenship and became a Mossad agent in the 1980s, and Claire Hoy, 50, a Canadian journalist. The Canadian-born Ostrovsky, who grew up in Israel and now works in Ottawa as an artist, sold the manuscript to Toronto's Stoddart Publishing, which planned to release the book Oct. 4. But two weeks ago, claiming the book contained information that "could have dire consequences for many people," Israeli officials won a temporary injunction in Canada against release of the book's contents. Ostrovsky...
...trying to avoid work stay on the line and the next available agent will help...