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...process, authorities say, is so time consuming that the bomber must be a loner. He may also be, warns San Francisco FBI special agent Jim Freeman, who is heading up the Unabom task force, "a quiet person, a typical 'nice-guy' neighbor...
...There is no difference this holiday season," travel agent Karen A. Boonstra said. "Most students are on USAir and they don't care...
...believes that Kerner is their agent; the English think he's a double agent working for them. He could be a triple or, as he says, "maybe & quintuple." Like many tales of espionage, Hapgood is an onion-like construction: the author peels back a layer of threats, uncertainties, possible betrayals only to reveal another. It's such an elaborate process, you can almost forget that what you wind up with is an onion: something savory and shapely but rather slight. Which is to say, Hapgood isn't quite Stoppard in highest flight. And which is also to say, even...
...cast is uniformly able. Stockard Channing, as the self-denying British agent Elizabeth Hapgood, does all she can, with her crisp high-heeled pacing, to delimit the boundaries of her role, but there's something a little frustratingly soft -- in the text -- at her center. As played by David Strathairn, Kerner is more convincing as a scientist than as a squelched lover; there's something slightly too predictable -- too projectable, as Kerner the mathematician might say -- about his twitchings and jerkings when sentiment gets the better...
Richard Baker, the FBI special agent who assisted in the investigation, also could not be reached for comment yesterday...