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...between author and subject. Not since Bob Woodward's misbegotten attempt to tell the story of John Belushi in Wired has a biographer been so ill suited to write the life of a creative artist as Daniels is to write about Lester Young. When it comes to illuminating the background, he can be fitfully incisive, but when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after all, what a biographer is supposed to do), he achieves what I would have thought impossible - he makes one of the most engrossing lives...
Against the background of vocal graduate student unionization efforts at private Eastern universities, some of Harvard’s teaching fellows are quietly organizing in an attempt of their...
...addition to the written examination, applicants are also required to pass medical, physical and psychological examinations, as well as undergo a background check...
...Still, something might have turned up if the feds had at least talked to Hoschouer. "What they called a background check was laughable," says one Justice Department official. "The closer the person gets to the crown jewels, the deeper we need to get into that person's head." If Hoschouer had divulged that he and Hanssen had had even casual conversations about setting up the rape of Hanssen's wife, says the official, "it would strike me as weird on two or three different levels. Is he seriously proposing a criminal act? Was he drunk, or was this the raving...
...People are still going to lie," acknowledges Assistant FBI director Ken Senser, who has been brought in from the CIA to re-invent the bureau's security system. "But background investigations should be robust enough to get a hint that there are issues that require deeper examination." Senser says he intends to deploy more aggressive background investigators, with experience in conducting probing interviews that elicit indications of psychological and integrity problems. In the past, background investigators, generally retired FBI agents working on contract, rarely went beyond the subject's hand-picked character references. This practice was sharply criticized...