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Killing Power

2008-04-30T11:55:12Z

Can you really kill by revealing a secret? Litterateur V.S. Naipaul believes so. In the just-published, authorized biography The World is What It Is he admits that letting the world know that he had paid prostitutes during the early years of his m...

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It Was You, Wasn't It ...

2008-04-29T11:23:30Z

On television, in shows such as "Perry Mason" and "Ironside," Raymond Burr ferreted out the secrets of others. Off screen, he had secrets of his own to hide, include a love of fine wine and orchids he shared with his partner of 35 years -- the les...

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A Hub of Secrets

2008-04-28T12:28:18Z

How many secrets can fit in one person? Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg secretly managed to save thousands of Jews from Nazi camps and his mysterious death is rife with end of WWII secrets including his possible connection to a secret US intelli...

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California Schemin'

2008-04-18T12:23:31Z

Secrets can fester within even the perfect vacation. Such was the experience of Mary Jo Eustace, mom of two (one newly adopted) and wife of actor Dean McDermott. Apparently, in three weeks of work on location with a woman he had previously and eas...

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Taxing Times

2008-04-17T12:30:12Z

A couple days late -- but isn't that often when secrets seep out -- arrives a list of some people (the biggest, this century, so far) who tried or encouraged others to keep their earnings secret from the IRS. ** Big Jo is always looking for name...

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Threat or Bluff?

2008-04-16T12:39:19Z

Tricia Walsh-Smith threatens to reveal the secrets that will truly embarrass the husband divorcing her, Philip Smith, president of the Schubert Organization. But other than a call to his assistant to ask him what he wants her to do about the porn,...

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Risk, Reward

2008-04-15T12:10:18Z

For those who crave the knowledge only select others have or share it must be impossible to conceive of knowing too many secrets. But secrets can be a burden and setting them free a personal liberation. Or so is the story of author Ian Fleming, su...

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Words Hurt

2008-04-14T12:22:06Z

Thriller writer Charles McCarry is precise in his prose. But everyone is clunky at some point in their oral communication, so while he would surelynot use "dying" and "torture" so closely in prose, it still rings true when the ex-CIA operative sai...

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Count Your Secrets

2008-04-13T13:00:02Z

Imagine if your public identify was a secret one. Such is the life of avocating card counter Rick Blaine, who supplements his Fortune 500 worker bee lifestyle by remaking his looks (spray tans, sunglasses, hair adjustments) to go and count cards a...

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Having Your Octopi and Eating It Too

2008-04-12T12:26:18Z

If you do not know the secret, anything may seem mundane, not worthy of attention, perhaps classifiable out of ignorance as "infrequent and unsophisticated." But get the dish on something you may not even have considered before, say the "Secret Lo...

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