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Investigators went trolling for disaffected Russian intelligence veterans who might have had useful information, and in the fall of 2000 they delicately wooed several, targeted for their knowledge and weaknesses. One informer came in with a priceless item--a piece of a black plastic garbage bag. From that scrap, FBI lab experts lifted two latent fingerprints and ran them against every set in the agency's personnel file. Bingo: they matched two on the 10-print card filed in the name of Robert Philip Hanssen...
...Your item "How Much For That Oscar?" [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 12] said DreamWorks sent out "extravagant...coffee table books" about its film Gladiator. The company may have given those books to somebody, but since it didn't send them to Academy members (which could have disqualified the picture in question), the gesture doesn't seem relevant to an article on Oscar lobbying. BRUCE DAVIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Beverly Hills, Calif...
...budget "brings to the federal government a discipline that it sorely needs.... Yes, there will be people that will be able to find programs that they think are underfunded or overfunded," Card said. "But the budget does reflect the priorities of America. And when you find that line item that you don't like, step back and take a look at the budget that you do like...
...editors had marked her for death from the beginning. Lots of eye-rolling about the whole vegetarianism thing, first from Michael about her getting "too theatrical" about the poor land-dwelling edible chickens (this from a man whose luxury item was eye black and who smears blood on his face after the hunt...
Bartley's resistance to change is a mixed blessing, Doherty jokes--he always orders the same item...