Word: agente
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...found its target: a truck surrounded by a group of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists who had been threading their way along precarious mountain roads amid 11,000-ft. peaks. From several miles away, the unmanned surveillance plane, operated by the CIA last Monday, locked in on the gathering. An agent somewhere in the region, viewing a live feed from the Predator's belly-mounted camera, thought the men were wearing Arab--not Afghan--garb, and that the leader was tall. After conferring with U.S. Central Command officials at their Florida headquarters, the agent signaled the Predator to shoot...
...bogeyman that the people must rally around the Vozhd to oppose. Moscow show trials were built on alleged ties of the "criminal trotskiite underground" to their exiled principal. All the ills and failures of the Soviet society were explained by the plotting of "trotskiite wreckers." Even after Stalin's agent murdered Trotski with an ice-pick in Mexico in August 1940, his name was invoked to justify terror until Stalin's death in March 1953, and remained a curse till the late 1980s. the whole story...
...matter how many times tearful widows accuse him of protecting the airlines, Feinberg does not blush. A lawyer with decades of experience in the messy art of compromise (Feinberg was special master for the $180 million distributed to veterans exposed to Agent Orange), he is accustomed to rage. "On Tuesday I get whacked for this or that in New Jersey. The next day it's New York. It goes with the job." But he rejects the theory that greed is a factor. "People have had a loved one wrenched from them suddenly, without warning, and we are only five months...
Johnson knew that identity theft violates both state and federal laws, so he called the FBI and was forwarded to the Secret Service, which investigates counterfeiting and other types of financial fraud. An agent asked whether the case involved more than $25,000. Otherwise, he intimated, he had bigger fish...
...explains, the Lampoon has done much of the significant guest-relations work for Man and Woman of the Year. Last year, he says, Drew Barrymore’s selection was finalized when a Lampoon member called a Lampoon graduate, who sealed the deal with Drew’s agent and publicist. The Lampoon staffer speculates that “the Pudding is so secretive about the selection for Man and Woman of the Year for good reason. The Lampoon has played a significant and uncredited role in their work and still does.” Pudding members refused to confirm...