Dulles' tenure helped shape the CIA into the spy agency of contemporary legend: covert manipulator, state within a state, overthrower of unfriendly governments.
According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to .
Half Irish and all gall, he is a sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own.
Charlotte man sentenced in deaths of wife, stepson A man convicted of killing his estranged wife and fatally beating her 11-year-old son with a baseball bat, then fleeing with the woman's car to North Carolina, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday. Prosecutors called Curtis Lopez a career criminal and an unrepentant master manipulator motivated by pure financial greed, and a judge described his crimes as ...
June 11, 2013 - WSOC-TV Charlotte
Man sentenced for Germantown murders ROCKVILLE — A man convicted of killing his estranged wife and fatally beating her 11-year-old son with a baseball bat, then fleeing with the woman’s car to North Carolina, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday. Prosecutors called Curtis Lopez a career criminal and an unrepentant master manipulator motivated [...]
June 11, 2013 - The Daily Record
'Mad Men': Is Bob Benson Gay? Probably Not By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - (Spoiler warning: Don't read this if you haven't seen Sunday's "Mad Men," entitled "Favors") Bob Benson might be gay - or just a shrewd manipulator of 1960s homophobia. The crucial moment in Sunday's "Mad Men" was Sally Draper's terrible discovery of her father having an affair with his neighbor - but the episode also slipped in a tantalizing new clue about ...
June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Charles Grassley in ABC News (blog) Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, said, "As expected, the administration has again failed to identify China as a currency manipulator. China recently allowed a modest crawling peg of its currency exchange rates,...
Richard Shelby in Forbes Shelby said the legislation was needed because despite the evidence, "Treasury has regrettably declined to label China a currency manipulator."
Chen Deming in Washington Post If some congressmen insist on labeling China as a currency manipulator and slap punitive tariffs on Chinese products, then the [Chinese] government will find it impossible not to react,Chen said in an interview with The Washington Post....