Most advice for picking a real estate agent is pretty standard: Find somebody who'll listen to you, who's experienced, sweats the details, works evenings and weekends, blah, blah, blah.

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The FBI opened an investigation into the incident after the killing -- standard procedure in any shooting that involves an agent.

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James Woolsey, his entire suspected inventory of the biological agent anthrax would fill roughly half a standard semi's tractor trailer.

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Two more authors, disgruntled with the standard approach to getting fiction published, have found success without a literary agent, thanks to the Kindle model.

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Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB agent, was on Thursday reportedly preparing to buy a 76.0% stake in the Evening Standard, London's struggling evening newspaper.

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