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...ambitious young FBI trainee recruited by the counter-espionage team headed by Laura Linney's Kate Burroughs to be Hanssen's assistant and to mole his way into the wack-job's confidence. In the movie the kid is eager and innocent, and eventually becomes so obsessed with his prey that he is endangering his marriage to pretty, sensible Juliana (Caroline Dhavernas). For Hanssen is something more than the mere neat freak he first appears to be. He is also both a devout, mass-every-day Catholic and an equally devout purveyor-consumer of pornography, some of which features...
...things to do than force “meaningful” conversations on busy, so-called close friends. Promoting the frequently portrayed image of the Harvard student as overstressed, self-involved, and unable to naturally cultivate relationships does not set a good example for either group: Those who fall prey to personal stress and procrastination or those of us who have discovered how to lead normal lives while doing (nearly) as much work as everyone else. MICHAEL C. PADGETT ’07 Cambridge, Mass. January...
...laws of capitalism dictate that the lse must have its price, and a handsome bid could yet win the day. That is, if it isn't preparing to go on an acquisition tear of its own. Don't rule out the exchange "becoming the predator, rather than the prey" sometime soon, says Hunter...
...small golden jackal, nipping at the rump of a hyena twice its size, chases the intruder from its territory. Two young lions tear into a still struggling buffalo calf. Such violent scenes are everyday rhythms Among Predators and Prey (Sierra Club Books; 224 pages; $35), the reflections of Wildlife Photographer Hugo van Lawick. The author has a long acquaintance with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering...
...birds, which number in the thousands in downtown Austin, been poisoned by some angry loft developer? Or had they died from a bout of overindulgence of mistletoe during the holidays? The answer to both is no, according to experts at Texas A&M University. They say the grackles fell prey to parasites and a sudden dip in temperatures, struck down by a double whammy of bad luck in the bird world...