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...lawmakers may object when spending more for counterterrorism means losing an FBI agent in their hometown who works on an antidrug task force. Other shuffling could incite a revolt in Congress. "If you try in any significant way to hinder the civil-rights division, that would be over the bodies of Senators on the Judiciary Committee," says a former Justice Department official. Which sounds like fightin' words--perfect for someone who seems more a general than an attorney...
...specializes in: the canny outsider itching to outsmart the system. He has higher hopes for Spy Game, in which he co-stars with Brad Pitt, whom he directed in the 1992 drama A River Runs Through It. With Pitt as his former protege, Redford plays a renegade CIA agent, a twist on the government-targeted fugitive he played in 1975 in Three Days of the Condor. "Condor was a critical look at the CIA, and Spy Game is an inside look at it from a historical perspective," he says. "It's intriguing to play a character that's the flip...
Bethann Rechner, a ticket agent at the box office, said the line was so long by 10:45 a.m. yesterday that the ticket window had to open early to keep the size of the crowd down...
...York City. There they split into pairs, got apartments, bought clothes and had some nice dinners. Then Dasch did what he had apparently always intended to do: called the FBI to turn them all in. He told the local FBI office that he was a Nazi saboteur. The agent in charge, however, wasn't too excited about it. He'd had 3 calls already that day from people claiming to be Napoleon, he said, and he hung up on Dasch...
...knows how to buck up a country. Last week, after getting intelligence that set off a second high alert, Bush ignored the advice of his Secret Service and traveled to Yankee Stadium for the first home game of the World Series. Alone on the pitcher's mound, not an agent in sight, with thousands rooting for him, he took his own sweet time and delivered a clean strike...