Word: agente
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...year Billy Madison was released. It was a hit with teens, and Sandler followed it in 1996 with Happy Gilmore. Suddenly the comedian who had been fired back East was being courted out West. "Adam has always been more highly regarded in Hollywood than by the critics," says an agent who knows him. "Anyone with kids usually likes him because their kids are so into...
According to the Yale Daily News, Yale officals say the university has “hired an agent to identify illicit file sharing.” The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
...According to Challenger, Gray and Christmas, 11.4% of jobless managers and executives started businesses in the first half of 2002--up from 7.9% in the same period a year ago. Frances Widnt, 47, of Baltimore, Md., is about to join them. Unable to land work as a real estate agent, she is considering kitchen design. "I've gone from being bruised to being excited," she says...
Meanwhile, at the Westport Court apartment complex in southwest Portland where Battle and Lewis live, neighbors grew alarmed when the couple's son reportedly told another child that "Sept. 11 was a good thing." Residents called the fbi, and at least one agent moved in to observe, they say. The neighbors provided informal backup. "The fbi said I was not to approach them but I should listen for certain 'hot words,' like jihad," Matt Hawkey recalls. He and others routinely passed along license-plate numbers of the couple's visitors...
...clerics have a long litany of gripes against the Americans and Musharraf, whom they dismiss as "an American agent" and "a puppet." They resent him for allowing the U.S. to use Pakistani military bases in Baluchistan and the Northwest Frontier province as staging posts in its Afghan campaign. It angers them that agents of the fbi wiretap Pakistani telephones and organize raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts. The Islamic hard-liners even fret that cameras at the Karachi airport are feeding images into CIA computers. What riles them most is that Musharraf has buckled to U.S. pressure and scaled down...