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...ENFORCEMENT Organizations--from the FBI and the CIA to the Coast Guard and the Defense, Justice and State departments--are revving up their recruiting efforts, looking for everyone from computer programmers, budding young diplomats and spooks to lawyers and linguists. The Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to hire thousands of new border-patrol guards and immigration inspectors to process and keep better track of new arrivals to the country; these positions require just a high school diploma and, with overtime, can pay around $40,000 in the first year...
...meaning for me until I had a visual image to fix them in my memory. Even now, when I hear the word under by itself, I automatically picture myself getting under the cafeteria tables at school during an air-raid drill, a common occurrence on the East Coast in the early 1950s...
...shortness of the list. There is also tourism. "In Soviet times we had 2 million tourists a year," he said. "Now we are delighted because we had 100,000 last season." Abkhazia's subtropical beauty drew both the élite and the masses to its Black Sea coast in Soviet times. Joseph Stalin and his secret police chief Lavrenti Beria had dachas here, as did Mikhail Gorbachev. Cows now graze around Stalin's dacha, while Beria's is occupied by a senior U.N. official trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the dispute with Georgia. The luxuriant richness of nature...
...ECAC tournament typically consists of four strong east coast teams that don’t make NCAAs. Harvard’s NCAA hopes ended with a loss to Cornell on April 21 that guaranteed a second-place finish behind Princeton, but the Crimson still posted the 18th best win percentage in the nation this year—also the best season win percentage in school history—with a 28-9 record...
Harvard has the weekend off before it competes in the National Championships May 10 to 12 at UVM. This is the first championships in a decade to be hosted on the East Coast...