Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimated will cost taxpayers $2 billion; Paul is the man who bought a $13 million Rubens for the bank but hung it in his home for safekeeping. And what a home! I was only allowed to see the guesthouse -- 8,200 sq. ft. -- which the real estate agent thought was unoccupied. Instead, we found toddlers downstairs with a nanny and, upstairs, a freshly unmade bed with a large gun tossed casually in the middle. ("This is the bedroom; this is the bathroom; this is the gun.") If CenTrust's mortgage on this property becomes an asset of the Resolution Trust...
...copyright. In the majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the film could not be shown without permission from the current holder of the copyright, even though Woolrich had promised to renew his agreement with the filmmakers. The winner in the case was Sheldon Abend, a literary agent who bought the copyright from Woolrich's estate for $650 in 1971. Since 1983, Rear Window has grossed more than $12 million for its owners, who include star Jimmy Stewart. A lower court will decide how much Abend should receive...
Each class of about 46 agents moves through an intensive 14-week training course that begins with lessons in surveillance. They track a suspect from his home, then observe him at a shopping mall as he sells a small bag of phony cocaine. Next comes a class in simple arrest, when agents burst into a fleabag motel to capture an unarmed John as he lies in bed with a make-believe prostitute. Agents learn how to frisk suspects, read them their rights, and complete arrest forms. Instructors, all of whom are former agents, carefully critique every arrest, providing pointers...
...plays a dope peddler: "You get to see how the law works without being on the wrong end of the stick. When they twist those cuffs on you, boy, it makes you think." Hogan's Alley has a similar sobering effect on its students. Says Raymond, an agent-trainee whose last name was withheld to protect him from the genuine criminals he will encounter after he graduates: "When you arrest someone, it hits you: you're going to change someone's life forever. My hands started to shake. For the first time, it seemed real...
...relations," says Rob Pfeiffer, a high school counselor in Oakland, Me. "We're pretending Vietnam just doesn't exist." An official in the Maine chapter of Veterans for Peace, Pfeiffer says his fellow members support recognition as a means to gain more on-site information about the effects of Agent Orange. "Open it up," says McClellan. "If we established relations with China, why not with Vietnam?" Former antiwar activist Anne Weills, who created a furor in 1968 when she went to Hanoi with a delegation that brought back three American prisoners, comes to the same conclusion from a different perspective...