Word: agent
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Women have suffered a double blow from the Einstein fiasco. First a possible heroine and role model, Mileva Maric, was lost. Then the agent of that loss was turned around and used as a club against them. Einstein's legacy was style as much as substance. The absentminded, frizzed-out dreamer has become the archetype of male genius. "Don't bother Daddy. He's busy working on the space-time continuum." Substitute "novel," "fast ball" or "takeover plan" for the end of that statement, and you have the image of the lone genius. Genius needs a little slack...
...loafers, the 6-ft. 1-in., 310-lb. Mexican sauntered over to a group of men waiting on the tarmac, smiled as if he were collecting a golf trophy and proffered his hand. "I am Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain," he announced. "I know who you are," snapped special agent Hector Berrellez of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "You have the right to remain silent...
...ended the DEA's five-year pursuit of Alvarez Machain, 42, a Guadalajara gynecologist wanted in connection with the 1985 torture and slaying of DEA special agent Enrique Camarena. DEA agents call Alvarez Machain "Dr. Mengele," after the notorious Nazi physician. Informants say the doctor injected Camarena with the stimulant lidocaine to prevent his heart from failing during a brutal interrogation...
White, who had been fighting the disease since he was 14, stood as a symbol of the nationwide movement against AIDS discrimination when he was initially barred from his elementary school in Kokomo, Indiana. He had contracted AIDS from a bloodclotting agent administered to him in treatment of his hemophilia...
...hotel on London's Jermyn Street. On one side of the table sat Daghir, Jeanine Speckman and two men introduced as Iraqi government engineers. On the other side sat Kowalsky and his manager for finance and export, "Daniel Saunders." But Saunders was actually Daniel Supnick, 38, a U.S. Customs agent...