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This sinuous story begins near its conclusion, in June 1985. Jan O'Deigh, an employee at a Brooklyn branch of the New York Public Library, receives a note from her former lover Franklin Todd: Stuart Ressler is dead. Grieving, Jan remembers the day some three years earlier when Todd first appeared at her desk and requested information about Ressler. "What was the man's line of work?" she had asked. "Don't know for sure," came the reply. "Something hard. Something objective, I mean." And why did he want to know about Ressler? "I work with...
...true, Jan discovers. Using her formidable research skills, she digs up references to Ressler in 1958, including a small photograph in LIFE with the caption "Dr. Stuart Ressler: one of the new breed who will help uncover the formula for human life." And then she is taken to meet Ressler himself, at a nearby renovated warehouse where he and Todd, an art-history graduate student stalled on his dissertation, work the night shift for a computer billing outfit...
...Christi Caller-Times and Brian Karem of KMOL-TV in San Antonio were jailed briefly for withholding unpublished or confidential information. Jail, fines or other punishments were threatened against reporters at the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Houston Post and Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and even Florida's Stuart News and Oklahoma's Pryor Daily Times...
...states that offer some sort of shield law, in part because judges often nullify the protection. They are especially prone to do so in cases involving serious crime. Reporters reply that the information being sought can be found in other ways or is not essential. In covering Charles Stuart -- the Boston man who claimed his wife was shot by a black robber, then confessed to the crime and committed suicide -- reporters Patricia Mangan of the Boston Herald and David Ropeik of the city's WCVB-TV suggested that Stuart's brother was complicit. The district attorney sued unsuccessfully to make...
Kessler always has a plan, and targeting a food-manufacturing giant such as Procter & Gamble was certainly part of one. Says Washington attorney and longtime friend Stuart Pape: "Going after large companies and being tough have been part of a well-considered strategy to increase the credibility and morale of the agency...