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...article revealed the CIA’s practice of allowing employees, like the fictional Jason Bourne, to use their skills in the corporate world (provided they get approval) as a source of secondary income. This amendment allows far fewer forms of secondary employment for Agency personnel, which is a serious threat to the strength of our country’s intelligence force...
...process for outside employment more stringent, because she feels it is currently “a rubber stamp deal. No one’s really looking at it or keeping a close eye on it.” Her statements have suggested that instead, the government should allow considerably fewer forms of secondary employment. This would mean, for example, reconsidering jobs in “deception detection,” in which officers help private firms tell when executives are lying about their companies...
...that can befall a man or woman of letters. Doris Kearns Goodwin, for instance, will never quite enjoy the same reputation she had before scandal erupted over an unquoted passage in “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys;” Stephen E. Ambrose, who copied from no fewer than twelve sources over the course of writing seven books, may as well be known as academia’s Samuel Mudd...
...polemic that would have been unacceptable in reference to any other population. To quote Weatherhead Center executive committee member Stephen Walt, “What if a prominent academic at Harvard declared that the United States had to make food scarcer for Hispanics so that they would have fewer children? Or what if someone at a prominent think tank noted that black Americans have higher crime rates than some other groups, and therefore it made good sense to put an end to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and other welfare programs, because that would discourage African-Americans from reproducing...
...warned that there may be fewer job opportunities for Law School graduates and that students might be furloughed after being hired—but acquiring a job is not the only concern, he added...