Word: agent
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...help find her own daughter, whom she had once put up for adoption. He helped dig up dirt on one of the families accusing Michael Jackson of molestation. He has done work for Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal, James Woods, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, former super-agent Mike Ovitz and dozens of others. His nickname is the "sin eater...
...elderly and melancholy that in 2008 he died. In the final years of his life, back in the homeland he had fought so hard to free from the oppression of the KGB, he came to a disappointing rapprochement with the new ruler of Russia, a former KGB agent. Having for years been tarred with the accusation of anti-Semitism, he devoted his final energies to a two-volume book about the Jews which would, among other things, demonstrate that he was not anti-Semitic. It mostly did the opposite. When, in the wake of his death, Moscow authorities renamed...
...elect Obama's newly vacant Senate seat. And he may have allegedly tried to force the newly bankrupt Tribune Co. to fire editorial staff members who were critical of him. And it's possible he traded favors for campaign contributions. But this is Illinois; as Robert Grant, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Chicago field office, told the press at the announcement of the indictment, "if it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor." (Read TIME's 2-minute bio on Rod Blagojevich...
...from complete. In his probe of public corruption in Illinois, he has already brought charges against 15 people, including Blagojevich's predecessor, former governor George Ryan. "If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor," says FBI special agent Robert Grant...
...rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like former Bush aide "Scooter" Libby. "It has become a cliché to compare him to Eliot Ness, the Chicago Prohibition agent whom television and movies made into a symbol of incorruptible law enforcement," the New York Times wrote Dec. 9, describing him as a "folk hero" in "prosecutorial spurs...