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...crotch, which brought a small shout, a few seconds of pain and then a whack over the nose to prompt the lion to let go. A little later, it took an interest in the BBC cameraman, pummeling him to the ground as he was filming. When the lion handler - who, we were rather disconcerted to notice, only had one eye - grabbed the chain around the lion's neck to pull it off, it swiped at the cameraman's arm, shredding his shirtsleeve...
...minister grabbed a black sun hat and used it to encourage the lion out. It jumped at the hat and tore it to shreds. By this stage we were all getting very nervous. The lion ran into a thicket of bamboo and the minister shouted something at the lion handler who disappeared for a few moments before reappearing with, tucked under his arm in the manner of a surfboard, a dead, stuffed lion. This is the one that didn't make it, the minister told us. In fact, the live lion had more than a little to do with...
...turned the traditional author tour on its head more than DANIEL HANDLER, the wildly popular children's author known as Lemony Snicket. When Handler arrives at a reading, he announces to the children that the mysterious Snicket couldn't make it, and that he has been sent in Snicket's place. He also tells the young attendees that the books are terrible and that they shouldn't be reading them. Naturally, this subversive behavior sets off gales of laughter in the junior set. "Slowly, the children usually figure out that I'm somebody pretending to be somebody pretending...
...casual relationship develops. "It's done in a very informal way, over a beer," says the Internet executive. The CIA says information flows in one direction only, but in practice the meetings can benefit businesspeople. For example, an executive asked his handler whether a contact he had met abroad was related to the country's leader, as he had claimed. A few days later the executive got an e-mail saying, "He's not; he's pulled that story before...
...executive gets comfortable with the relationship, his handler might ask him to look for particular matters of interest on future trips abroad: say, the health of a political or military leader. That's where the slope gets slippery. Another, smaller part of the NRD's activity is the placement in corporations of what are called nonofficial cover officers--paid CIA employees who work without diplomatic immunity. Many companies are leery of accepting CIA officers. Says Norbert Garrett, a 27-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service and now president of Kroll Associates, a global security firm: "You can jeopardize...