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...saga began in the early 1980s, when James J. Smith, an agent in the bureau's foreign counterintelligence unit in Los Angeles, recruited Leung. Under the code name Parlor Maid, she received $1.7 million from the FBI over nearly two decades. The bureau says the two quickly began a sexual relationship that continued after Smith retired in 2000. During rendezvous at Leung's home, investigators say, she took documents from Smith's briefcase and photocopied them...
...murderers was later recruited to work for the police, and his confession to the killing was ignored. Soldiers and police could have prevented the murder and didn't; they could have caught the killers and didn't. How could all this have happened in the law-abiding United Kingdom? Because Northern Ireland, in its time of Troubles, was a land apart. In the late '80s, the British government adopted a more aggressive security policy to break the deadlock with the i.r.a. During that push, a secret army detachment known as the Force Research Unit managed to insert an agent named...
...company's new plan emphasizes its "many opportunities for synergies," and Tellier is already primed for some serious nipping and tucking. The day after the company halved its earnings guidance in March, Tellier announced he would ax 10% of the work force in the aircraft unit, on the heels of deep job cuts last year. A decade ago, few would have guessed Embraer would be Bombardier's main competitor in the regional-jet business. But Embraer's 1994 privatization heralded Brazil's new push to be a global economic player. To exploit the late-'90s boom in worldwide regional...
...winning novel, The Giver, about a community that, in order to end conflict, gives up colors, weather, choices and love, is read at schools throughout the world. “They read The Giver in Germany,” Lowry says, “as the beginning of their unit on World War II—the teachers use the community in the book as an example of the effects of totalitarian rule to soften the blow of upcoming lessons on their country’s own past...
...Mosul Airport, where the Americans are based, a spokesman denied that the Americans had fired indiscriminately. "When we received well aimed fire, we returned well aimed fire," said Capt. James Jarvis of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which came yesterday to back up the Special Forces already here. "As of right now, coalition forces are well in control of the city," he said, allowing that "we're in a period of instability...