Word: agent
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...nuclear program, two of the most important voices in the national debate belong not to politicians or diplomats, but to a 73-year-old retired salaryman and his wife. Shigeru and Sakie Yokota's only daughter, Megumi, was abducted on her way home from school by a North Korean agent in 1977, one of many Japanese citizens believed to have been kidnapped by North Korea during the 1970s and 1980s. The Yokotas have become the face of an influential lobby of abductee families, whose insistence that Tokyo make no compromises with Pyongyang is one of the reasons why Japan will...
...farce" that "suggests the novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller." Since then, the brothers have become the most frequently staged Russian playwrights after Anton Chekhov. "There isn't a day that their plays are not performed someplace the world over," says Judy Daish, the Presnyakov Brothers' London-based agent...
...friend-of-the-court” brief, filed in the case of suspected al Qaeda agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, argues that the Military Commissions Act violates the Constitution. The professors argue that the act denies al-Marri the right to a writ of habeas corpus—an order requiring that a “court of law review the legal adequacy of the executive’s grounds for detaining” an individual, according to Frank I. Michelman, Harvard’s Walmsley university professor and one of the scholars who signed the brief...
...five Major League teams. It is nearly half of Boston’s own 2006 payroll—all for one player’s ear! This doesn’t even factor in Matsuzaka’s salary, which Boston brass and the pitcher’s agent, Scott Boras, have reportedly agreed will be a hefty $52 million over six years...
...belong in the same sentence. The rules of the place make it next to impossible to run. Unlike the House, where the leadership gets to decide both the timing and the terms of debate for everything that comes to the floor, the Senate makes every member essentially a free agent, with the power to gum up the works whenever he or she feels like it. Veteran New York Times reporter Adam Clymer remembers once asking then-Majority Leader George Mitchell - who was better at the job than most - why he was interested in leaving the post to become commissioner...