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...whisper about their dirty deals. But, says Penn, "we don't put our old folks in rest homes. We don't have as many divorces. And when a woman gets raped or a bank gets robbed, law enforcement doesn't come to Murphy Village." Says Joe Livingston, a senior agent with the South Carolina state police who has tracked the Travelers for two decades: "It's really a paradox, the whole community." --With reporting by Mairead Carey/Dublin and Daren Fonda/Fort Worth
...There's been a brisk trade in books about double agent Robert Hanssen, including "The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History" by TIME Washington correspondents Ann Blackman and Elaine Shannon (Little, Brown). On October 29, Random House will publish "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America" by David Wise. Kirkus is impressed, giving it a starred review. "A solidly paced, richly detailed account, by the intelligence-community insider Wise, of the FBI desk jockey who sold secrets to the Soviet...
...Hannibal the Cannibal in this film, which is directed by Brett Ratner. Following the success of his last Hollywood victory Rush Hour 2, Ratner now helms a decidedly different sort of action as he takes the reins from Ridley Scott (Hannibal). With Edward Norton as the retired FBI agent who returns to the Bureau to catch a family-slaughtering psychopath (the dashing Ralph Fiennes, believe it or not), this nail-biting psycho-thriller looks to outperform its predecessors...
...That Kim chose as his principal change-agent a mainland Chinese businessman with Dutch citizenship is, in itself, an acknowledgment that the North Koreans can't reform themselves. No less a figure than Kim Yong Nam, the second-most powerful man in North Korea, handed over the zone's authority to Yang in a ceremony last week, while other top comrades watched sullenly from armchairs. Yang, sporting a Kim Jong Il badge pinned next to the alligator on his Lacoste golf shirt, insists the new zone is a sincere effort. "General Kim wants to open a window to the world...
...could really make a horse fly. The criminal replied, “No, but in a year the horse might be dead.” Any number of events could occur in the next year that would make intervention in Iraq more difficult than it is now. An Iraqi agent could get lucky and pick up a supply of weapons grade plutonium at some Central Asian garage sale. The U.S. political environment might shift against a firm position on Iraq. Hussein is as likely to willingly dismantle his arms program as he is to make a horse fly. At least...