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...doing things--training its agents, recruiting spies overseas and keeping headquarters happy. One agent explains that CIA recruiting overseas was about as rigorous as going to an opening-night mixer at a Las Vegas convention: American agents overseas sometimes competed with one another to see who could collect the most business cards at official receptions in foreign capitals. Then they would return to their embassy to determine the night's winner. Each card, the agents told themselves, represented a potential spy for the U.S. In fact, the agent said, "none of these people had anything useful ... It was just numbers...
...Hayden—the ultra-liberal ex-husband of Jane Fonda—to Miami on a trip funded by the Institute of Politics (IOP). The ostensible aims of the excursion were to observe a protest against the Fair Trade Agreement of the Americas and to “collect data.” However, the group’s innocuous observation quickly turned into active participation—and, unfortunately, involuntary detention by the local police. The incident prompted scrutiny of the IOP’s funding criteria. As we said in the wake of this incident, observing...
Walsh took a moment to collect himself, then gathered the team for a final meeting. He cleared his throat to talk, but his voice faltered. Against the elements, against the dejection that should have come from a season capsized in the final week, the largeness of Walsh’s pride in his Crimson ballplayers shone through...
This was the hour during Freshman Week when I leaned back in my desk chair and stared out my common room window to collect my thoughts. From the fourth floor of Canaday A, I took a moment to meditate on the illuminated Memorial Hall tower rising up majestically from behind the entryways across the courtyard. The scene provided an incredible backdrop for a moment of reflection. How did I get to live and study in a place like this? How many others had admired this very same view? What would the rest of college be like...
...stock price in a bid to align pay more closely with performance. During each of the next three years, Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina can accrue up to 150% of a nearly $2 million cash award if she meets certain criteria for operating cash flow. But she will collect the full amount only if at the end of the three years HP stock has outperformed at least half the companies in the S&P 500. IBM is now granting its top 300 senior executives stock options that are priced 10% above market value, an uncommon practice that makes it harder...