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...trial in Berlin since last October. Three others are still at large. The alleged leader, Kazem Darabi, a 34-year-old importer-exporter, worked for years as the German-based link between Tehran and the Lebanese Hizballah, according to the German prosecutors. The indictment identifies him as "an agent of the Iranian intelligence service VEVAK" and a Revolutionary Guards member. His assignment, assert German prosecutors, was to "liquidate" the Kurd leader as part of a "persecution strategy of the Iranian minister for intelligence and security against the Iranian opposition." The other four defendants, all Lebanese, are veterans of the Hizballah...
Secret Service agents are inherently funny. This fact is the saving grace of "Guarding Tess." The basic premise is mindlessly simple: Special Agent Doug Chesnic (Nicholas Cage) guards eccentric former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). Doug dreams of someday being in the line of fire, but dutifully performs "the worst job in the Secret Service" because the President wants...
...then how else could the main characters learn to appreciate one another for who they really are? The kidnapping makes Special Agent Chesnic realize how much Tess means to him; he also finally gets to fulfill his active agent fantasies. She then realizes that she genuinely likes him, and not only because she can order him around. By the end of the movie, they have both overcome many of their prejudices and grown as individuals...
...last Thursday's meeting, both full-time andpart-time attendants asked Conway, their union'sbusiness agent, to confirm or deny that an effortwas underway to supplant full time employees...
...state real estate agents continue to receive inquiries from Angelenos who want to pull up stakes because of what Clearwater, Florida, agent Richard Cope calls L.A.'s "last-straw" phenomenon. "They all want charts of the fault lines in our area," explains Karen Lind, deputy director of Colorado's business-development office in Denver. "We decided to get out right after the earthquake," says Dubi Friedman, 47, owner of a clothing-design firm in the northern L.A. suburb of Valencia, who is moving to Las Vegas with his wife Irit and two children. "The damage is nothing...