Word: agent
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...that it was not very good at preparing students for anything other than further education,” Daniloff says.But what undergraduate education prepares a student for enemy capture?In 1986 while working as a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, Daniloff was arrested by KGB agents and held in a Moscow jail on charges of espionage.In late August, Daniloff went to meet a friend, promising his wife, Ruth Daniloff, that he would be back in time for lunch. “1:30, 2:30, 3 p.m., and no sign of him,” Ruth says...
Piven isn't known for pausing. He is known around Los Angeles for doing everything else: dancing at a club, filling in on drums for Wyclef Jean, jogging past the struggling hikers at Runyon Canyon, firing agents or asking another hot woman out on a date--sometimes for the second or third time, even if he didn't remember asking before. As a performer he's more frenetic, having made a career of playing supercharged supporting characters as if he were Al Pacino on a leash. His talent is being big and real simultaneously. Piven's brilliant, nuanced take...
...someone who quietly speaks to key people around the world about changes in our own economy, alerts them to trends in fiscal policy, and takes in information from key players in the private sector for use by policy makers in Washington. In essence, he's sort of a double agent in the house of finance. Bolten should understand this, coming from Goldman Sachs. But that hardly means this view will prevail...
...true meaning of a Harvard education lies. In fighting to show others that we deserved our vaunted diplomas, we will be driven to excel, and to excess. The gnawing self-doubt that follows us on our fall from the Ivory Tower will be both a paralytic and a catalytic agent...
...Nothing's that simple, in life, or certainly in this movie. We're all victims, at times, and victimizers at other times. Yussef is an agent, an angel, of death. He's also a very charming, then very scared kid. Debbie and Mike, I suppose, are clearly victims, but the two child actors, especially Nathan Gamble, play fear beautifully. Chieko is a scarred creature, who can communicate only through extreme measures, and suffers the memory of finding her dead mother (a suicide victim who shot herself--another gun!). The children in Babel are complicated human beings, just like the adults...