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...aisles overflowed in Science Center A yesterday night when students like Bernard S. Yoo ’03—who hopes to work in an investment bank after graduation—crowded into the auditorium to glean tips from a case interview workshop sponsored by The Boston Consulting Group...
...what is it that we want to glean from these mounds of papers? First, of course, we want to determine whether the CIA and FBI are capable of working together - and why they haven't been doing that for years. Second, we want to figure out the best way for the intelligence community to weed out real threats from hundreds of false alarms. And third, we want to know who, finally, will be responsible for the U.S. intelligence community - its successes and failures...
...major scholarly undertaking of Wagner’s career was the Munkwa Project, a detailed study of the 14,607 Korean men known to have passed the civil service examination during the Choson dynasty, which lasted from 1392 to 1910 C.E. Wagner used the records of this period to glean significant insights into the social and political dynamics of Korean society and to make the material more accessible to other scholars...
Even though the updates don’t obscure the material, they are largely superfluous. The production never makes clear what the audience is supposed to glean from the modern interpretation. It seems as if the production team simply put the characters in modern clothes rather than formulated a vision of which the clothing forms an integral part...
...MARK THOMPSON is TIME's military correspondent, and in recent weeks he's been scurrying around Washington trying to glean the war's directions by talking with tight-lipped military officers. "I've been reduced to interpreting their grunts, groans, grimaces and grins for TIME's readers," says Thompson. Chat with him on Thursday...