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...Central Intelligence Agency hand who was close to outgoing Director Porter Goss was previously a paid consultant to one of the defense contractors who allegedly bribed ex-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, according to government documents and a person familiar with the matter. The financial link between Brant Bassett - who served two stints at the CIA and recommended the controversial Kyle "Dusty" Foggo for a top agency post - and defense contractor Brent Wilkes could prove a further embarrassment to Goss in the wake of what sources in and out of government say are investigations by the CIA inspector general...
...Bassett was paid $5,000 in May 2000 as a consultant to ADCS Corp., a company headed by Wilkes, Foggo's friend since childhood, according to disclosure forms Bassett filed when he was a House intelligence committee aide to Goss while the former Congressman was the panel's Republican chairman. Bassett was not working for the CIA at the time of the payment. Still, it may not look good for yet another of Goss's right-hand men to be associated with Wilkes - whom prosecutors allege, in Cunningham's guilty plea, provided more than $600,000 of the $2.4 million...
...Akeelah and the Bee” presents scholarly achievement as a viable alternative to the unfortunate stereotypes about black families.However, peripheral characters, such as Akeelah’s father, who is deceased, her brother, who is the protégé of an aspiring rapper, and her mother (Angela Bassett), who works too many jobs to monitor her children, evoke these film cliches.Akeelah aptly transcends her familial circumstances by preparing for the spelling bee with the assistance of the renowned, though reclusive, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) and the people living in her community. In fact, former bullies, neighborhood vagrants...
...Murr Center on Saturday, with five players winning their matches in three games. At No. 4, De Lierre had the most lopsided victory of all as he swept his opponent with scores of 9-1, 9-3, 9-1. DiSesa managed a close victory at No. 6 against Graham Bassett with a 3-1 win with scores of 9-2, 7-9, 9-4, 10-8. In the fourth and last game, the scores were tied at 7-7 and 8-8 before DiSesa pulled off the final two points to clinch the match.Despite never being seriously challenged...
...purpose is to create winners and losers—isn’t it possible that Harvard undergrads do exceptional work?” says NAIS President Patrick F. Bassett. “It’s hard to measure: are the students smarter? The entire controversy begs a larger question, is the quality of teaching excellent? Is the quality of student scholarship [better]? What’s frankly important is, ‘What’s the purpose of the education itself...