Word: agente
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...last 20 years, Turner Prize jurors came from galleries that had hosted exhibitions for nominated artists. Three 1989 nominees had exhibited in Bristol's Arnolfini Gallery - whose director, Barry Barker, was on the Turner jury. In 1996, juror James Lingwood disclosed that his wife was an agent of one of the nominated artists. A spokesman for the Tate Modern says such conflicts are unavoidable when choosing judges from the small pool of people who are "passionate about contem-porary art." Okay. But could they not be more, er, artful about...
...That's in stark contrast to what happened after the Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 19 American military personnel and wounded 372 others. An agent who worked on that case recalls, "The Saudis went out and grabbed everything in sight before we got there. They just let us amuse ourselves by sifting sand...
...muntjac, a small deer. When they examined sputum, feces and blood of the masked palm civet, they hit pay dirt. All six of the civets tested, according to Professor K.Y. Yuen, head of the microbiology department at HKU, carried huge amounts of a coronavirus strikingly similar to the SARS agent. The scientists sequenced its genome and found the two viruses to be nearly identical. The World Health Organization points out that the results don't definitively prove that civets or other animals gave humans SARS. But theoretically, a civet bite or sneeze could infect its owner?so could the handling...
Delawala said that after learning yesterday that the FBI was interviewing students who had witnessed the explosion, he went back to the building and answered brief questions from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent and an FBI agent...
...DIED. MARK MCCORMACK, 72, founder of the International Management Group and the world's most powerful sports agent; in New York City. McCormack invented the concept of sports marketing and his Cleveland-based company has represented Tiger Woods, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras and Jackie Stewart. Once called the most powerful man in sport, McCormack also authored several management books, including the best seller What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School...