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...Susan Kurz Snyder of Greene-Levin-Snyder Legal Search Group, an executive-recruitment firm. In the past year, Eric Dinallo from New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer's office and the SEC's Patrick Patalino have switched over to Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston, respectively. The latest defector: Beth L. Golden, Spitzer's former deputy of special projects, who becomes the global head of compliance at the Bear Stearns Cos. next month. Bear Stearns has received requests for information and subpoenas from many federal and state agencies, including Spitzer's office, regarding mutual-fund-trading investigations. Not that...
...DIVORCE GRANTED. To MRS. OH, North Korean defector whose husband is still trapped in the Stalinist state; in Seoul. The decision by a South Korean family court sets a precedent for other couples divided by the 38th parallel to be formally divorced; the court ruled that Oh, whose full name and age were withheld, is entitled to a divorce because "there is little possibility that people will be allowed to come and go freely across the border in the near future...
That's why ricin once enjoyed a certain cachet among international men of mystery. Every spywatcher knows about Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, who was assassinated in London in 1978 in a ploy that James Bond or Austin Powers would appreciate: a shadowy stalker jabbed Markov in the leg with an umbrella rigged to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin (the killer was never found, but the KGB and the Bulgarian secret service were prime suspects...
...Kafie] is a defector and one of the great evils in this conflict,” Corker added...
...like ... asking whether a venomous snake will bite." Hwang Jang Yop, highest ranking defector from North Korea, when asked during a trip to the U.S. if Kim Jong Il is a threat...