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Those on the other end of the moral spectrum, the bad guy politicos, are also continually astounded by the efficacy of Murray's secret agent man act. The stock Brit and the stock Russian, working together to revive the Cold War, marvel at his cool aplomb and heartless ability to ignore the impending torture and death that could ensue if things go wrong. The clever folks in the audience can laugh and laugh, knowing it's really ignorance that gives such calm, whereas for Wallace it's the assumption that because he paid for the ticket, his safety in this...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ignorance = Comedy | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...sell," Huizenga said recently. "We think the reason we should sell is to remove ourselves from the process and hopefully . . . then South Florida may build a new baseball park." The equation, though, probably included the $34 million Huizenga says the team lost last year, due mainly to costly free-agent signings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Huizenga, Fishmonger | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

...After that? Likely a free-agent fire sale, followed by the departure of manager Jim Leyland, who spent too many years in Pittsburgh to ever play bargain-basement baseball again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wayne Huizenga, Fishmonger | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

Citizens for Reform was really a shell for Triad Management Services, a firm based in Washington that matches conservative donors with candidates and causes. In late September, a Triad agent huddled with the campaign of Yellowtail's opponent, Rick Hill, and figured out how to help. According to a Triad memo, Hill needed a "3rd party to expose Yellowtail" on "wife-beating." Citizens for Reform launched its ad a couple of weeks later, sparing Hill the indignity of playing the mudslinger. It was a turning point in the race, and it appears to be a prime example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET G.O.P. CAMPAIGN | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

Zauhar, who was supplementing her nursing income with a job as a real estate agent at the time, loved her new suitor despite the fact that he had been married three times and had a reputation as a womanizer. "I heard there were problems with his other wives," she reflects, "but he told me I was special. He radiates an air of niceness. When my mom met him, she said he looked like Robert Redford." She adds, "He's a man with a temper who has punched holes in walls and swept the top of an attorney's desk clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HEART AND A KIDNEY | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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