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...POWER BROKER REWARDING GOOD BEHAVIOR...
...scandal at work and has a girlfriend who is pushing for marriage. So we have the cop-with-something-to-prove and the mysterious British villain (actually, Clive Owen might be playing American—his accent is a bit hard to pin down); toss in a shady power broker (Jodie Foster), and you’ve got yourself a perfect Friday night crime thriller...
...sale of wireless-phone records, but it stalled in the Senate last week. In the meantime, spy outfits pose as subscribers to obtain records, then sell them to private investigators, divorce lawyers or anyone else with a credit card. Verizon Wireless and other carriers shut down one notorious data broker, Locatecell.com "There are thousands of companies doing this," says Robert Douglas, a security consultant and former private investigator. He notes that there are about 60,000 licensed private investigators in the U.S. "Unfortunately, anyone worth his salt knows who to turn to for phone records," he says. Wireless carriers...
...church included?has receded into the distance and there's not much left to view except gray fluff, Andrea keeps a watchful eye out the window. It's not surprising, given the family dynamic. Andrea plays the goalie to Diego's striker, the introverted, behind-the-scenes power broker to Diego's extroverted, genial public persona. (A recent cover story in Capital, an Italian business magazine, was titled "When the Secret Is Your Brother.") While Diego will make headlines sparring in the press with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi or hobnobbing with high-profile friends like Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero...
...Jewellers, an argument across the counter appears to be verging on a fistfight. Two men punch calculators furiously. A third appears to wrestle with the seller. Dangayach laughs and interprets: "He's saying 15 rupees a carat, the other one says 2, and the broker says, 'Yes, you take it for the pleasure.'" Finally, the deal is done at 5.25 rupees per carat. "I've seen a broker literally pick up Munnu and carry him across the room to close the transaction," says De Taillac...