Word: agente
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...last day in the CIA, agent Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) recounts the story of Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), whom he recruited and mentored. Bishop is about to be executed for a rogue raid on a Chinese prison, and Muir wants to rescue him. The excess of talk, some of it nicely smart-alecky, is relieved by much standard action-movie fieldwork: explosions, car chases, muttering. Though the film ranges the world and the decades in search of coherence and consequence, it finds none...
...Florida. The book was required reading in American high schools for decades. APPOINTED. KENNETH FEINBERG, 56, an attorney and former aide to Senator Edward Kennedy, as manager of the compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and their families; in Washington, D.C. Feinberg oversaw similar restitution for Agent Orange victims after the Vietnam War. APPOINTED. ROGER MILLA, 48, a Cameroon soccer legend, as the U.N.'s first African ambassador to spearhead its aids program; in Geneva. Milla, named the African player of the century by British magazine Africa Soccer, will travel around the continent next year to educate...
...literature could fail to incorporate the events of Sept. 11," says literary agent Ed Victor, whose clients include Frederick Forsyth and Erica Jong. "The imagery was so profound and the event so vivid and tangible that no one was left unaffected. As T.S. Eliot said, 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality,' and my writers are taking that...
...Sept. 11 was a watershed event in our culture," says David Godwin, an agent who represents Will Self and Ben Okri. "It shows how complicated and interconnected the world is, and I think readers are going to want either to escape that or understand it better through serious literature. I think middle-of-the-road books like thrillers may suffer. That kind of fiction now comes too close to our lives...
...state and local police, but he is elevating cyber-crime with a new, dedicated division. "In next five to ten years, cyber-crime is going to be one of those areas in which we ought to be the leader," he says. Reuben Garcia, the bureau's highest-ranking Hispanic agent, will become the executive assistant director supervising that division and the old criminal investigations division...