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Following Tompkins’ death, her coworkers set up a collection box outside the checkers desk in the Eliot House dining hall to raise money for her family...
...Shannon (Little, Brown). On October 29, Random House will publish "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America" by David Wise. Kirkus is impressed, giving it a starred review. "A solidly paced, richly detailed account, by the intelligence-community insider Wise, of the FBI desk jockey who sold secrets to the Soviet and Russian governments for two decades - and came close to getting away with it...A first-rate true-crime story that gets inside the shadowy - and astoundingly average - world of spooks, moles...
...problem escalates senior year, with paperwork flying everywhere. Fellowship, thesis grant and job applications—all with varying requirements and deadlines—swim around my desk, not to mention a writing course application, a Crimson column application and the form for one-last core exemption attempt. (Two years of e-mail sparring with the Core Office have not helped, as I embark on my 10th Core course.) And I’m not even applying to graduate school...
...Kabul. The defense ministry building against whose wall the bomb had been left was not an empty set of offices; it's the headquarters of Afghan military intelligence. At the time of the explosion General Zahir Akbar, the country's military intelligence chief, was at his large varnished desk scribbling orders on scraps of paper. Though the building was all but empty, it seems as if someone knew he would be there. "He was the target," one of his aides told TIME amid the debris of the general's office minutes after the bombing. "We had been expecting this explosion...
...couch with pillows decorates the hallway of the IRC office. Cluttered with papers and other junk, the hallway leads into four other rooms—a tiny closet for back issues, the room used by the International Review, a desk used by the Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE) and the main IRC office, which has enough space for three chairs and a desk...