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...classified information and knew that its release would unveil someone whose identity the government was trying to conceal. The law provides a mechanism to punish someone who demonstrates a "pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents." The penalties: up to 10 years in jail and a stiff fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Leakers Rarely Do Time: The Legal Case | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...increased the supply of low-cost coal, lowered electricity prices, improved the efficiency of coal-fired generators and been environmentally friendly. What's more, according to the Council for Energy Independence, the credit "has created new jobs in an otherwise shrinking business." Those jobs come with a stiff price: at least $200,000 from taxpayers for each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Energy Scam | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

Although Bedazzled was never produced, Weitzman proved an invaluable contact, eventually helping Ahrens and Flaherty with their first success in 1988, called Lucky Stiff...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Ragtime' Composer, Lyricist Talk Shop, Life | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

Flaherty worked in the pit of other shows, even two nights after Lucky Stiff opened. “It was a very humbling way to make money at that time, let me tell you,” Flaherty said...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Ragtime' Composer, Lyricist Talk Shop, Life | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

After Lucky Stiff, Ahrens and Flaherty composed Once on this Island, which won eight Tonys...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Ragtime' Composer, Lyricist Talk Shop, Life | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

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