Word: tattlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ELAINE SHANNON says persuading tobacco-industry tattler and 60 Minutes star Jeffrey Wigand to talk to TIME was like "skiing a double black diamond run." The former Brown & Williamson exec is under a court order not to discuss his years in the nicotine business. "But he could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told...