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...advocate. He's using the snaps to protect himself from crown prosecution. There are also pictures of establishment figures caught in flagrante in a bondage brothel and a ledger recording the payoffs made to the police by a porn kingpin. The movie plays the robbery as a kind of sting, arranged by MI 5, a branch of the British secret service. Their idea was to make the crime look like a standard heist, allow the robbers to keep the loot if they could escape the investigating cops, but grab the embarrassing evidence of royal playfulness. To this end, they engage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bank Job is Sweaty and Suspenseful | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...globe, the former Soviet Air Force pilot let his guard down just as a complex web of international police agencies were closing in on him. The potential buyers said they represented the leftist Colombian rebel group FARC - but they turned out to be part of a U.S.-led sting operation that had lured him out of his Russian refuge and tracked him through South America, Europe and Asia. On Thursday, he was finally arrested in Bangkok, Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Lord of War Was Nabbed | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...freeze may explain why Bout was willing to stick his neck out for new business. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) sting operation came together relatively quickly. According to the charging documents filed with the Southern District of New York, a confidential source working for the DEA emailed an associate of Bout in November to arrange for an arms shipment FARC. Using the code words "farming equipment" in the emails, Bout's intermediary allegedly planned for 100 Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Lord of War Was Nabbed | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Then the polls stabilized, with Clinton holding a narrow advantage. The Obama campaign seemed caught off guard by allegations that a top adviser sent signals to Canada that Obama's tough talk on NAFTA was merely political posturing. By last weekend, the sting of eleven straight primary losses had faded, and Clinton volunteers say they felt renewed confidence. "Right after the Wisconsin primary there was an eroding of her poll numbers in Ohio," said Ted Strickland, Ohio's governor. "The closer we got to election day, the better I felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Camp Tired but Happy | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...scored two quick goals with under five minutes left to play to turn a would-be 2-1 Crimson victory into a 3-2 defeat. By this point, some of the more seasoned Harvard players may have developed a Pavlovian association between the stench of decaying ichthyoid and the sting of losing...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LAST WILLS AND TESTAMENT: Harvard Fishes for Playoff Bid Against Rival Cornell | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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