Word: arresting
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...abduction. "Hank is one of the most down-to-earth, common-sensical, likable people you would ever meet," says an agent at the Customs building in downtown Miami, where Blair specialized in drug interdiction and supervised 17 agents before he was placed on paid leave. Until his arrest, Blair was best known for helping to recover a 1636 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, stolen from a Spanish museum. That won him Spain's highest civilian honor. Now, a conviction for aggravated stalking could earn him 15 years maximum behind bars...
Though Billig has received no calls from the Voice since Blair's arrest, the memory still disrupts her thoughts and sleep. She has not given up on Amy. "It's my job to find my child," she says. "I won't rest until there's some kind of closure." She adds, "Either they find her alive--or they...
RECOVERING. JAMES BRADY, 55, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, who was wounded in the 1981 attempt on Reagan's life, and went on to inspire an eponymous gun-control law; after suffering cardiac arrest at a dentist's office; in Fairfax, Virginia...
...jail suit. It's really nasty. But Salinas probably will testify. He's a tough guy who feels he can correct the perception people have of him." Salinas fled the country last spring after resigning from the presidency amid the collapse of the Mexican economy and his brother's arrest on murder charges. Mexican leaders have demanded Salinas, who is believed to be in Cuba, return to Mexico to answer questions regarding his brother's wealth...
Readers who turn to books for escape from the dailiness of life will find little respite in Leverich's biography. He is a great one for minutiae--bills, appointments, schedules--as if by the sheer amassing of mundane detail he could arrest his notoriously flighty subject. The book is a solid job, but at times a weighty one--as dense as a memorial stone...