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...staff structure would eliminate the position of executive agent, which has been vacant since the departure earlier this year of Kenneth G. Smith, the first and only person to fill this position. A compromise agreement last summer between the College and PBHA established the position and created the board of trustees--consisting of PBHA supporters, students and College representatives--as PBHA's governing body...
...executive agent reports to the College on matters of safety and liability and to the trustees on programmatic issues and is paid equally by the College and PBHA. Smith said it was very difficult to work for both the College and PBHA, prompting a subcommittee of the board, the Program Development Team, to draft the current hiring proposal...
Ahmed Sarhane has no illusions about those ideas. A Moroccan-born French citizen, Sarhane, 31, worked in Vitrolles as an auxiliary security guard. On the day of the municipal election, he and a fellow agent were mounted on a motorcycle, watching over a polling station in an immigrant neighborhood. Suddenly, three cars driven by National Front members pulled up. "Pack your bags," said one driver. "Tonight, you're out of here!" When Sarhane told him to back off, the man drove up on the sidewalk and rammed the motorcycle broadside. "They were trying to kill us," says Sarhane, who suffered...
Woods portrays the Lord of the Underworld as a sour, conniving Hollywood agent. He works every meeting, with gods, mortals or demons, as if it's a bored crowd in a Vegas lounge ("So is this an audience or a mosaic?" he asks after a gag bombs). Even his compliments have the bite of insults: "You look like the Fate worse than death," he purrs to one of three haggish wraiths. And when he blows his smoldering top, it's like Krakatau in orgasm. In character, design and performance, Hades...
DENVER: Although Denver businesswoman Carole Ward must have experienced immense satisfaction, she had to know she'd pay a price for telling off IRS agent Paula Dzierzanowski during a 1993 dispute over $324,000 in unpaid income taxes. "Honey, from what I can see of your accounting skills, the country would be better served if you were dishing up chicken-fried steak on some interstate in west Texas, with all the clunky jewelry and big hair," Ward said in the heat of negotiations. Retaliation from the feds was swift and sure: Within weeks, IRS agents posted notices that led locals...