Beneath the banner headline Anatomy of a Smear," Time took up the Mena saga-subject of a number of columns in this space-last week. The Mena saga concerns the trafficking of guns and drugs through western Arkansas, with the involvement of the C.I.A. and...

The way she tells it, toiling in relative obscurity was the best thing that could have happened to Bernice Behar. With few distractions and fewer sales, Behar spent much of the last year building spectacular short-term investment records with money she managed at...