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...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...
...those of the home bank in Italy. Federal investigators are reportedly trying to ascertain if BNL Atlanta extended a credit to a British-based company accused of trying to procure for Iraq elements of a triggering device for an atom bomb, a transaction uncovered by a joint U.S.-British sting operation last March...
When Peter Sharis graduates today, he will leave behind a rowing legacy that legends are made of. Sharis spent three years on the Harvard varsity boat, rowed for three Eastern Sprint titles and three national championships, and felt the sting of only three losses in a Crimson boat...
...humor was Ehrenreich's emotional armor for the 1980s, it is also her best instrument of subversion. While other women are busy pointing fingers at one another for their family and career choices, Ehrenreich makes her case for working mothers by debunking, with the endearing sting of a suburban survivor, the guilt trips thrust upon them. Don't worry about missing your kid's "stages," she says, because "no self-respecting six-year-old wants to be reminded that she was once a fat little fool in a high chair...
WORLD: An international sting halts an illegal shipment and slows Iraq's drive to become the first Arab nuclear power...