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...work was ordered by Ronald Schiavone, the chairman of the construction firm, who met with the detective in a Washington hotel bar and asked him to find out everything about the Senators and staffers investigating Donovan. "He wanted it all," says Sharer. "Marriages, divorces, girlfriends, sex-whatever we could dig up. Schiavone was angry. He felt he was being unfairly maligned and slandered." Sharer claims Schiavone once produced a large bundle of $100 bills as a down payment on the job. In all, Sharer says, he spent 260 "billable hours" working for Schiavone at $250 an hour, services worth...
...state's case at the guilt phase," he says, "but they're incapable of presenting an affirmative case for life at the sentencing phase." They often have neither the temperament nor the resources for such a task, and in his view many attorneys who fail to dig deeply enough will not be caught by the court's new test...
...neatly aligned in a field, while the bodies were scattered around the town. Rivas reportedly told one person of how ten bodies from Metalio were heaped in a nearby village last year, prompting the military commander to complain, "If you are going to kill them in your area, dig your own holes...
There may have been reasons for the leaks other than just financial gain. "Heard on the Street" writers are strongly encouraged to dig up scoops, according to one former reporter at the paper. As a result, a column writer could be tempted to swap information with a news source in exchange for fresh tips. "Out of a galaxy of motives," said the ex-staffer, "it is conceivable that there is but one element: simple pressure to get a story...
...land that has produced enough rhymers to people County Mayo, his is the voice that resonates loudest past the Irish Sea to Britain, America and beyond. Heaney's reputation seems to increase geometrically with every poem, starting back in 1966 with the appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger and my thumb/ The squat pen rests./ I'll dig with...