Word: agente
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...straightforward: use the vast resources of Mets owner Fred Wilpon to buy top players, but most important, trust your gut when filling out the mix. And skip the stuffing and sweet potatoes. On Thanksgiving Day 2004, Minaya trekked to the Dominican Republic to nail down his top target: free-agent pitcher Pedro Martinez, fresh off a Series victory with Boston. "It's a family day, and you show up in a place where you're not supposed to be, just to talk to me," Martinez recalls. "That was more than enough." The four-year, $53 million-- contract offer helped...
...identified Mohamed Atta at the center of the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy a year before the attacks, a claim that has been dismissed by both the White House and the 9/11 commission. Weldon has been associated with some questionable lobbying schemes: both his daughter Karen and his real estate agent, a longtime friend named Cecelia Grimes, have set up lobbying firms representing defense contractors and East European companies that have received Weldon's support for their products. Sestak is 54 and looks younger; Weldon is 59 and seems older. There is a last-hurrah quality to his campaign: Weldon has held...
...Created a MySpace site and invited a bunch of studio heads to be his "friends." B) Fired the talent agent he has had since he was a starving comic. C) Started dating brunets. D) Resolved to never again steal Christmas...
...Rather than heads rolling for infractions, the Cabinet agency has become a fault-free zone, Devaney claims. "Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of Interior," says the former Secret Service agent. "Ethics failures on the part of senior department officials-taking the form of appearances of impropriety, favoritism, and bias-have been routinely dismissed with a promise 'not to do it again.'" In numerous instances top officials who leave the department under a cloud, said Devaney, "are sent off with a party paying tribute to their good service...
...Zach Helm's clever, calculating script, Harold Crick (Ferrell) is a solitary, hard-working I.R.S. agent who, as he methodically brushes his teeth one morning, hears an authoritative female voice say that he is brushing his teeth. Indeed, everything he does, she describes. And Harold, whose lack of an inner life is his most distinctive feature and saving grace, suddenly is rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate...