Last month, inside one of the many hotels lining Connecticut Avenue in downtown Washington, one of the country’s top defense scientists allegedly offered to sell his nation’s secrets to an Israeli spy. At least Stewart Nozette thought the man was a Mossad agent. In reality, according to court papers, he was an undercover agent with the FBI’s counterintelligence squad.
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Joanna, an undocumented Mexican woman living in Smyrna, Ga., thinks twice about going to Mexican restaurants. She fears local police are watching them for illegal immigrants. Once, when her kitchen caught fire, she “was determined to put it out” herself, terrified that if she called 911 she would be deported. In nearby Austell, a Guatemalan named Jonathan was shopping at Macy’s when store security corralled him. Charged by police with loitering-the charges were later dropped-he spent three months behind bars before being deported. Read the rest of this entry »

David Robinson was always one of the NBA’s goody-two-shoes (in his case, a robust size 17), especially when he played alongside NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman in the mid-1990s. While other ballplayers’ off-the-court behavior has landed them in the tabloids for one sin or another, Robinson, 44, a devout Christian, has made a name for himself in the world of philanthropy. Read the rest of this entry »