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...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy...
...tested early. The bureau is sweating under the lights of four major outside investigations. Three of the probes - one into how FBI agent Robert Hanssen could have operated within the bureau as a spy, another on the indictment of another FBI agent for selling information to organized crime and the third on the eleventh-hour discovery of some 4,000 pages of documents that had not been handed over to defense lawyers for Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh - were ordered by Attorney General John Ashcroft. The fourth, a blue ribbon panel headed by former FBI director William Webster, was commissioned...
...feds could reinstate the espionage charges and possibly perjury (if he lies to a federal grand jury) and tax-evasion charges that could make life miserable for Hanssen's wife Bonnie, although sources say the feds are not eager to torture the innocent wife of the rogue agent...
...feds could reinstate the espionage charges and possibly perjury (if he lies to a federal grand jury) and tax-evasion charges that could make life miserable for Hanssen's wife Bonnie, although sources say the feds are not eager to torture the innocent wife of the rogue agent...
...could all have gone so wrong. The 1,192 islands scattered across the equator, south of India, were first "discovered" in 1971 by Italian travel agent George Corbin. Attracted by his tales of pristine waters, dazzling beaches and natural offshore aquariums, a party of Italian journalists accompanied him on his return in 1972 on the first charter flight into the capital, Male. Word and tourist development soon spread. The Maldives appeared set to go the same way as Cancun or the islands of Greece and southern Thailand. But in 1984, worried about the changes the new arrivals were wreaking...