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...GROWING NUMBER OF SPIES IN THE U.S. ARE SPECIALIZING IN stealing business information. Operatives from Russia, China, Vietnam and Cuba have been joined by agents from Japan, Western Europe, the Arab nations and several other countries. The FBI also reports that onetime KGB operatives are going into joint ventures with Western companies. It is not clear in many cases whether they are seeking cover to steal classified information or simply trying to learn the tricks of the commercial trade. Says Wayne Gilbert, chief of FBI counterintelligence: "They're used to dealing in the international community, so they make very desirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Move Over, M.B.A.s | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...aging "Actors" (Phil Munger and John Morton), also help develop the plot, though they follow the narrator's directions only insofar as it promotes their own washed-up acting careers. With booming voices and theatrical flair, Munger and Morton easily steal the show. Their incredibly comical scenes provide reason enough to see the production...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Fantasticks Falls Short | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...knows the value of humility -- and isn't afraid to steal a line from Ross Perot in order to project it: "I'll wake up every day in the White House with the idea that it's not my house; it's your house. I am nothing more than a temporary tenant and your chief hired hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What He Will Do | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

Newspapers are so filled with reports of such crimes that all but the most horrific lose their power to shock. In Madison, Indiana, four teenage girls doused 12-year-old Shanda Sharer with gasoline and burned her alive in January because she was "trying to steal the affections of another girl." Henry ("Little Man") James, 19, opened fire into a passing car on a Washington- area interstate because he felt "like busting somebody." The somebody turned out to be a 32-year-old woman driving home from work. In Los Angeles two teenage sisters allegedly killed an elderly neighbor while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Without Pity | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

What happened at the meet, however, is simple arithmetic. Even though Walsh ran the five-mile, deceptively bumpy Princeton Battlefield course in 25:56, and even though Harvard took second, third and fourth places, the Princeton Tigers managed to pack their runners into the top spots to steal a victory in a meet Harvard had hoped...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: CRIMSON NOTEBOOK | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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