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...HAVE BEEN A BIG CRITIC OF CIA HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO FIX IT? We're fixing it with quantity and quality. We're changing methods. We're changing systems. We're changing it from the beginning to the end, from the recruitment--the types of people we are trying to attract--to the way we bring them in, to the experience we give them in training, to the ways we get them on station or in places where they are of use to us. We are focused very much on finding ways to get our eyes...
...saddest, for some reason, is the one Baker uses to begin his book. An angry wife grumbles about "my husband, the cop. Always has to be the big man." When neighbors ask him to fix tickets, she says, he tells them, "No problem." She goes on: "The big, important policeman. Do you know how he fixes tickets? He goes downtown and he pays them, that's how he fixes tickets." This is a tough, grubby book, and a good job of listening. --By John Skow
...governments and organizations. The U.S. has spent $2.5 million for such items as blankets, tents, generators and disaster relief teams. The Colombian government allocated $5 million to repair washed-out roads and bridges that had been in the path of the mudslides. An additional $2.5 million was earmarked to fix fractured oil pipelines. On Wednesday, President Betancur announced that the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank had awarded Colombia loans of $1.2 billion for reconstruction...
...Reagan urging him to resume test-ban talks to "demonstrate to the world that both you and Mr. Gorbachev are willing to take concrete steps to further reduce superpower tension." After years of tortuous arms-control negotiations, a test ban has the popular appeal of a quick and easy fix, harking back to the enduring 1963 treaty to end nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in space...
...organize all the digital photos on your hard drive, arranging them in neat folders (just the way you named them) and making them more easily accessible. Everything you might want to do with your images-view, edit, email, print, post to your blog-is within easy reach. You can fix red-eye, adjust color and contrast, or add special tints or a switch to sepia tone. The Order button gives you a short cut for placing a print order with websites such as Shutterfly and Snapfish. The email button automatically downsizes the file before sending it to make it easier...