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...LIFE AS A WHALE (Interscope) A New York City literary agent who's been dumped by his girlfriend finds himself chased by marriage-hungry women...
Biological agents, including anthrax and botulism toxin, remain the biggest threat. At the time of the allied aerial attacks last winter, pilots avoided targeting sites where biological weapons were believed to be stored, or hitting them with incendiary bombs. According to Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner, who ran the allied air campaign, a strike by a conventional bomb could have spread a deadly agent across the countryside, killing millions. As a result, Iraq's biological stocks are largely intact, and a U.S. attack poses the same risks that it did during the war. Unless Saddam discloses the whereabouts...
...crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity...
...Joseph Fernandez case I think he grossly underestimated the value of that case and the strength of that case. ((Fernandez, a former CIA agent, was accused of lying about his involvement in helping supply arms to the contras. The charges against him were dismissed in 1989 because Thornburgh would not release classified documents Fernandez needed to present his defense...
...most scalding episode is the third, on agents. It is hard to know which is more unsettling: the caught-in-the-act scenes of oily agents coddling clients over lunch and at the racetrack, or their considered explanations to the camera of what they do for a living. Ed Limato, who represents such stars as Mel Gibson and Richard Gere, talks about the joys of occasionally handling a newcomer, like actor James Wilder, whom he can teach "how to dress, who's important for him to know, who's not important for him to know." Another agent discusses the value...