Word: agente
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...recently requested something from one such famous person. Famous in the Oscar-nominated sense of the word. As is customary with such requests, I put it in writing and faxed the letter through to the famous person's agent, who then passed it on to the publicist, who passed it on to the famous person, who usually takes a pass and the publicist passes that pass on to me. (I may have the actual order of the Chinese whispers back to front here, but you get the picture.) I submitted to this process even though I saw said famous person...
...categories of Single-Topic Issue (for our 9/11 special edition, which featured a 28-page picture portfolio and Nancy Gibbs' story about that horrific, chaotic day), Reporting (for Alex Perry's piece last December on the prisoner uprising at Qala-I-Jangi, which claimed the life of CIA agent Johnny Micheal Spann) and General Excellence. We're also up for Design and Photography, the only magazine nominated for both. ASMES are generally considered to be the Oscars of the magazine world, but as wonderful as the news is, it only confirms what I already know: I'm very lucky...
...last time a major rock star visited a Republican President in hopes of influencing policy, little happened. In 1970 Elvis Presley dropped in on Richard Nixon, angling to become a federal agent to fight the drug war; the President gave the narcotic-addled Presley an honorary badge and sent him on his way. When Bono visited PRESIDENT BUSH last week, the U2 singer proved considerably more effective, and coherent. Bono lobbied Bush to increase money to fight AIDS in Africa and assist impoverished countries. Later that day Bush pledged $5 billion in foreign aid to poor nations that improve their...
Businesses with long-standing interests overseas often seem to know more about the sociopolitical texture of international hot spots than even the U.S. government. Robert Baer, author of See No Evil, which recounts his 20 years as a CIA agent, points to business's relative freedom from the legal and bureaucratic obstacles that circumscribe government intelligence as an important advantage. Since leaving the CIA, Baer has done occasional investigative work for private interests and says, "My access to information is better since...
SmithKline Beecham, now part of GLAXOSMITHKLINE, anticipated BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB's acceleration of its anticancer drug Taxol, in part because Bristol-Myers Squibb took a curious interest in amending the Endangered Species Act to enable more harvesting of the yew tree, whose bark produces the active chemical agent in Taxol. SmithKline's suspicions were strengthened in the early '90s when it noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit...