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...such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony Fernandez, taking batting practice, "laying each bunt down like a necktie on a bed." Hopping adroitly from decade to decade, backward and forward, Angell blows the dust off such near forgotten minor marvels as the switch-hitting Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga crushing two home runs in the same inning from opposite sides of the plate, and a game in 1933 (Angell was there) in which one Luke Sewell, catching for the now defunct Washington Senators, tagged out two bunched-up runners at the plate (Lou Gehrig...
...Should Have Seen Them in Cleveland...
...porn and economics makes economics interesting or porn boring, it's the former.) He follows the money down some dark alleys: into peep shows and prisons, subterranean high-tech hydroponic pot farms and camouflaged, garbage-strewn encampments of illegal Mexican farmworkers. He introduces us to Reuben Sturman, a humble Cleveland comic-book salesman who became the founding father of America's $10 billion porn industry and who deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured loser who got a life sentence--without parole--for his peripheral role in one marijuana deal. Schlosser...
...Leung's other lover was an FBI agent in San Francisco, whom bureau sources identified as William Cleveland Jr. In 1991, three years into this affair, Cleveland was listening to an electronic intercept of a phone call to a Chinese intelligence officer and recognized Leung's voice. Realizing the FBI had not authorized her to make such contacts, Cleveland alerted Smith, her chief handler, who said he would speak with Leung. Other counterintelligence officials also may have missed signals that Leung was a double agent and continued to use her as an informant. The FBI is now poring over...
...repercussions for agents Smith and Cleveland are deeply personal. Smith, 59, admitted to the affair after the FBI had recorded him having sex with Leung in an L.A. hotel. Smith, who through his attorneys denies any wrongdoing, was charged with gross negligence and released on bail. Cleveland, who was not charged (and declined to talk to TIME), left the bureau in 1993 and took a job at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear-weapons research facility. He resigned last week, and the lab is investigating whether any of its classified data were leaked. As for Leung, she remains...