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Missing: one lazy, affable middle-age accountant and $96,564,217.78 of his clients' money, which was snaffled away via a tangled network of stolen laptops and offshore accounts. Under suspicion: said missing accountant, plus his wife, now a fading ex-model, and his workaholic office assistant, who never had much to fade from. On the case: Detectives Dennis Sprague and Anthony Ballestrino, Computer Crimes Squad. Yes, they carry guns, and no, they're not sensitive about being computer detectives. Well, maybe a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer... | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

...support is there, I am willing to go the distance. If not, I will fade into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

...pressure from all quarters in a way I haven’t seen in my recent memory,” he said. “And that pressure isn’t going to go away. Things don’t get this kind of pressure and fade away, and I think that the sooner the Chinese government recognizes this the better...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Grad Tried in Beijing for Espionage | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

Everyone loves a mystery, which may be why PRIVATE JESSICA LYNCH'S 15 minutes of fame have yet to fade. It's still unclear exactly what happened when her convoy was ambushed in Iraq and, later, when she was rescued--and Lynch isn't talking. But at her homecoming, the soft-spoken hero won hearts by simply acknowledging the sacrifices of others and her gratitude at being home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...hears the whispers of career mortality. "You almost feel obligated to get depressed," he says. "What nags at you is becoming warehoused--having your soul and your ambition put in cold storage." Your ego too: it's tough to fade gracefully to character-actor status after 25 years of stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Those Guys Look Like Rocky | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

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