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The author of a 1941 nonfiction book about swindlers filed copyright-infringement charges against the screenwriter of The Sting in 1973.
A team of the agency's auditors operated a sting this year that established that callers could easily obtain income data on other taxpayers using only name, address and Social Security Number.
One is Amy Spindler of the New York Times , who seems to take clothes seriously without excess or apology, deploying a quick imagination and an interest in detail that give her writing a fine attentive sting.
O scar Wilde's comedies are doubtless long-winded, but their wind blows in from a high peak: The characters' formulations are bracing, and their epigrams have a sting.
Serbs still sting from their defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, which began the Turks' 522-year occupation of Serbia.