Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shouldn't even be here, he's so sick," says his brother Father Louis Gigante. He is part of an entourage that has included a defense-team press agent, marking an embarrassing low point in the history of an organization that never worried about its image; the cross-pollinated offspring of the Chin's wife and the Upper East Side mistress he lives with; and a doctor who carries a medical bag and a look of impending crisis. "Let's check his blood pressure," a family member said gravely during a break. Judge Jack Weinstein has ordered medical personnel...
Jones plays the unflappable agent "k", who's apparently never met an E.T. that he couldn't place. Smith, a former NYPD cop, joins him as agent-in-training "J" after running down and almost bagging an alien offender. They're soon confronted with the mother of all diplomatic crises: when the big bad extraterrestrial Bug lands on Earth, assassinates a high-ranking alien and steals a galaxy (don't ask), the assassinated alien's compatriots threaten to destroy Earth if the galaxy isn't recovered...
American are internationally famous for thier emphasis on rights. IT's as if we invented them, and to a certain extent we did. Justification in our legal system hangs for less on whether an action is good or bad in itself than on whether the agent had a right to act that way. But for such a system to function, it sems crucial that citizens know and be able to defend their liberties. As I spend hours a day listening to people complain of injustice, I am struck by simultaneously-low voter turnout, daily grumbling overheard on the train about...
...civil rights movement, the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four children. "It's a crime that has gone unsolved except one local conviction and it remains a sore part of American history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Edward Chambliss, has been convicted. The FBI believes at least three other men were involved...
MOSCOW: The old KGB is back with an offer many Russians can't refuse. Just pick up the phone, dial 224-3500, and confess you're a spy. Agree to become a double agent, and Mother Russia will pay you twice what you were getting before (a bold claim in a country where even the soldiers haven't been paid in months). The plan is to get a little back from the foreign spy agencies who have swooped into Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, scooping up precious military secrets from Russians for a song...