Word: agente
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...years, divorced his first wife and remarried, working as a consultant and running a mail order business until 1999, when George W. Bush persuaded Rove to come work on his campaign. Two years later, Rove was ensconced in the White House, launching his current career as presidential travel agent...
Inside the restaurant, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Kerry M. Healey ’82 told the crowd that Romney would be “the true agent of change in this state...
Sutherland's worries are a reflection of the high bar the show set last year. It chronicled "the longest day" in the life of counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Sutherland)--24 hours in which he had to foil the assassination of a presidential candidate while also trying to save his own wife and daughter from kidnappers. The show combined popcorn-movie thrills with a complicated and innovative narrative (each episode was one hour in real time). And it confounded expectations right up to the end, when Bauer, after saving his daughter and the candidate, found his pregnant wife shot to death...
...fast-acting sleeping agent being pumped into the theater was the key ingredient in a daring rescue raid. As early as Day One of the hostage standoff, diggers had been tunneling underneath the theater in preparation for an assault. Now in the early hours of Saturday, gunshots from inside had forced into action the waiting Spetsnaz commando troops in the elite Alfa and Vympel antiterror units of the Federal Security Service. The Chechen hostage takers, it seemed, were about to fulfill their death vow. They had sworn that if Russian President Vladimir Putin had not declared...
...from the theater. Many of the freed were delivered straight to toxicological wards to be treated for gas poisoning. The televised pictures of those female guerrillas, explosive packs still tied to their waists and slumped lifelessly in their seats, offered mute testimony to the fast-acting power of the agent...