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...Washington holds regular meetings with the heads of the satellite intelligence services based in Washington, and they often divide up intelligence tasks." Czechoslovakia, formerly a favored channel for disinformation, seems to have taken on the job of watching East bloc émigrés. East Germany is said to excel in electronic surveillance and detection equipment. Before martial law was imposed, Poland offered the best approach to influencing opinion in the West. In the U.S. alone, Poland reportedly can call on agents among some 200 trade representatives. Rumania has the crudest and largest secret police; some experts estimate that as many...
Jaffe's emphasis on theme and structure led him to cast Nelligan and Hirsen rather than actors with more star appeal. Both excel in their roles: Nelligan, especially, works with such intelligence that she seems constrained by Jaffe's low-key interpretation. The tautness of her motions often reveals the depth of her characterization. When she visits her husband in the hospital, after he is beat up in the course of the investigation, her otherwise highly poised muscles relax as she tells him a terrible joke. That one moment evokes the despurate need for affection behind their irreparable estrangement. Susan...
...Bridgeport parents pay from $900 for one child to $1,750 for three or more children. Talented students are motivated to excel; those with less ability at least learn the basics. Like many Christian schools, the Bridgeport Academy uses a core curriculum of social studies, science, math, English and spelling interspersed with Bible teachings. The results make a strong case: at Bridgeport, eighth-grade students taking the Metropolitan Achievement Test averaged tenth-grade levels. At Nebraska's Faith Baptist, pupils scored a year ahead of their public school counterparts on the California Achievement Test...
...difficult now to get the impression that there is a great rivalry with unpleasant overtures," he says. "As long as both excel in economics, we'll compete, do it nicely, and enjoy...
...editor's diligence and a reporter's aggressiveness more than the eternal dread of being scooped. That fear abates, to be sure, when the competition is a scandal-monger or a cult mouthpiece. But if competition vanishes altogether, the surviving newspaper is left with all the incentive to excel of a student in a one-on-one course graded on a curve...