Word: agente
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DIED. LYNDA VAN DEVANTER, 55, who wrote searingly of her time as a Vietnam nurse; of a vascular disease perhaps related to Agent Orange; in Herndon, Va. Her book, Home Before Morning, told of the horror of combat surgery--of drunk doctors, lost patients and the special loneliness of a female veteran of our most loathed...
...million last quarter as it doubled gross bookings from a year ago, to $1.47 billion--overshadowing the $915 million collected by chief rival, Travelocity. And as Expedia begins this month to offer its smorgasbord of services to the $180 billion U.S. business-travel market, Barton remains every travel agent's worst nightmare...
Once more the baleful ghost of Diana, people's princess and petulant self-promoter, is roiling the House of Windsor. Her unlikely agent for this work is her former butler Paul Burrell, the man she called "my rock," who, as one of his last duties, dressed her after she died. His trial for stealing a stash of her goods collapsed spectacularly this month when police couldn't deliver on their claim that Burrell had been peddling them, and the Queen then provided proof of his good intentions by recalling that he told her in 1997 he would take these belongings...
...Live famous. So things have changed on the second season of The Osbournes (Tuesdays, 10:30 p.m. E.T., beginning Nov. 26). Yes, everyone still swears a lot. Ozzy still can't figure out the TV remote. And the dogs still soil the carpet, although if they're smart, their agent has now negotiated a per-poop bonus in their contracts. But the series is no longer about the Osbournes, heavy-metal Munsters. It's about the Osbournes, stars of The Osbournes...
...winning actor whose menacing screen presence defined a new type of tough guy in classics such as The Magnificent Seven (1960), an American version of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese epic The Seven Samurai, and The Great Escape (1963); in Los Angeles. Coburn, who rose to fame as the secret agent in the James Bond spoof Our Man Flint, was largely confined to minor roles during his career. While battling debilitating arthritis, however, Coburn won an Oscar in 1998 for his powerful performance as the abusive alcoholic "Pop" Whitehouse in Affliction...