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Notably, Laine’s jump from last week which had almost broken a Crimson record would have won him this event. Now, he looks poised to sail to victory at the upcoming Heptagonals and possibly make a dent in national championships as well. His training partner in the event, sophomore Lawrence Adjah, failed to qualify in the college men’s eastern triple jump...
...mostly at the margins, little fixes to huge federal bureaucracies--in the words of Tenet, evolutionary, not revolutionary, change. That's partly because Washington has been so distracted, mounting and managing two unfinished wars, that it hasn't had time to take itself apart and figure out what's broken. The other reason is that the two agencies most in need of reform--the FBI and the CIA--over the past 60 years have become famously hidebound and self-protective creatures. As four or five outside groups launched probes of--and proposed changes to--FBI and CIA activities after 9/11...
...seemed only to feed the commission's growing appetite for reform. "We've been struck," said Lehman last week, "by a real difference between our interaction with the FBI and our interaction with the agency. The bureau ... has fundamentally admitted they're an agency that is deeply dysfunctional and broken ... whereas the attitude we kind of get from the CIA is ... 'Hey, you know, we're the CIA,' ... kind of a smugness and arrogance toward deep reform...
...broken world records. The question is whether she thinks she can do more. The answer lies with her. Athletes always have to believe that there is something they can do in the coming season. It's when they can't visualize themselves running any more quickly that they give up. Radcliffe hasn't reached anywhere near that point yet. --BY SEBASTIAN COE, two-time 1,500-m Olympic gold-medal winner
Telephone reception in remote Haitian villages is apparently pretty weak, so I had to wait four days for a peasant to switch a broken cord on Farmer's Internet-based phone. When we finally talked--after Farmer had driven four hours each way for a meeting with a Dominican health commissioner--I informed him that he wasn't top-100 important. He tried to take the news in stride, though he was clearly bummed out. "I was reading PEOPLE magazine recently, and a pop star--her first name is Jessica, but her last name escapes me, a blond--was saying...