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...first meeting on the campaign last week, and top aides are busy seeking outside advice on how to remind middle-class Americans of Clinton's accomplishments. Ickes' role in the campaign signals something else: the close involvement of the First Lady. Ickes, more than anyone else, operates as her agent...
...claims about Qubilah Shabazz prompt Turner to recall the '60s and '70s, when "there was a well-orchestrated, high-priority program operating from the FBI to destabilize black organizations that were involved in the civil-rights movement and African-American liberation struggle. This was to be done by planting agent provocateurs, providing false documents and sending bogus letters to the heads of various organizations that would sow the seeds of conflict . . . in order to effectively destabilize them...
...interview yesterday, Weissman said he has been active in alumni affairs since his graduation. His class committee appointed him Class Agent, or chief fundraiser, a post he has held for 43 years...
...sent him to an acting coach in New York who called us back and said, 'This guy's got talent!' " -- Sherry Spillane, talent agent, promoting her client Joey Buttafuoco
...Defense. And what finally cost him his job, associates say, was that he spent too much time playing a defensive game. He got into fights with Senators over minor items in the $28 billion intelligence budget and gave out meager punishments to officials who had ignored warning signs that agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock...