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Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has had a rocky history due to a combination of Presidential distrust and operational embarrassments. However, for most of its existence, the CIA managed to attract some of the best and the brightest--people lured to the idea of defending democracy, collecting and analyzing intelligence that could prevent the next World War or preempting a Soviet maneuver that could upset the delicate power balance of the Cold War. Now, in this post-Cold War era, the CIA has another war to wage. This time its adversary is on its own soil...
...simple informational meeting might not be enough. "The War for Talent," a recent study released by McKinsey and Co. at the request of the State Department, found that competition for intelligent, talented and internationally oriented recruits will be fierce over the next two decades. Many of the brightest are not entering the workforce with hopes of becoming Bond but rather Gates or Soros. Is it the money? Partly, but not completely...
...novel becomes, in his screenplay, a small epic with subtle strengths. The setting is harsh--a Maine orphanage in the early '40s, with war and sexual abuse looming--but the mood is warm and precise, as a flinty, laudanum-addicted doctor (the excellent Michael Caine) tutors his brightest charge (Tobey Maguire, the most watchful of young actors) to be his protege. Hallstrom, here as in My Life as a Dog and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, lets the characters carry the story without allowing the actors to push too hard. This is a film with the wisdom...
...drinking at MIT is the blatant and unnecessary disrespect for an institution with which your university has a long-running mutually beneficial relationship. You claim that MIT has a reputation for "technologically incompetent students." I know of no one who feels that MIT produces anything but the best and brightest...
Seems that students are staying up later and later in order to keep ahead of the pack. Between classes, work-study, athletics, campus organizations, honors theses, political commitments, public service and answering all the daily pages, e-mails and voice-mail messages, our nation's best and brightest find themselves at 3 a.m. flat out and famished...