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Peace Corps Director Loret Miller Ruppe has spoken of the Harvard project as a model for other programs around the country. Short-term programs like this one will serve both the Peace Corps and the country at large. The Corps will be able to enlist the technically skilled volunteers it badly needs; more Americans will find public service a viable option...
...book Woodward portrays Casey as a wily and aggressive director who made the CIA his personal instrument of foreign policy. In early 1985 Woodward reports, Casey went "off the books" to enlist Saudi help in carrying out three covert operations. One was the attempted assassination of Sheik Fadlallah, who had been linked to the bombings of American facilities in Beirut. After that plot failed, Woodward writes, the Saudis offered Fadlallah a $2 million bribe to cease his terrorist attacks. He accepted, and the attacks stopped...
When Bork graduated in 1944, his parents refused him permission to enlist in the Marines. Bork retaliated by promising to volunteer as a paratrooper if he had to await the Army draft. His parents relented, but the war ended before he got out of Marine training camp...
...chemistry of Bogart and Bacall, Bogie and Bergman turn this rickety plot into a timeless film about sacrificing personal interest for one's ideals. When Dewitt first saw this film, shortly after its 1942 release, he was so inspired that he went down to his local post office to enlist...
Through public service programs, Bok has sought to enlist the support of students in extending the helping hand of the University into the outside world. In addressing the issue of divestment, the president has suggested joint lobbying action against apartheid. Bok sends a message that students need to take a more constructive and active interest in their community, but he denies them the means to do so at home...