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Knocked from its perch as the chief U.S. intelligence agency when Congress created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA is focusing on the critical task of planting human spies. President Bush told Goss a year ago to hire 50% more spooks "as soon as feasible." Sources say Goss's plan is to go back to basics: hide more spies posing, for example, as cultural or economic attachés in embassy-based CIA stations, and reopen stations that closed when the cold war ended. Camp Peary, the CIA's secret training center in eastern Virginia, runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recharging The CIA | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...members. "I think that [school officials] did not seek out American teachers," says Marrietta English, who heads the Baltimore Teachers Union. "The problem the urban teachers have is retention. Last year we were losing 40 teachers a month. No one is looking at ways to retain the teachers we hire. They don't offer the teachers the support they need, and they don't treat them like professionals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Looking Abroad For A Few Good Teachers | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...said privately, that foreign companies like Crystallex rarely create as many jobs as promised. For now, Crystallex complains it must sit idly by while its lodes are being picked at by illegal miners the government seems unable or unwilling to stop--workers Crystallex says it would be happy to hire if it could just run the mine. "The way to resolve the misery and desperation [the miners] live in," pleads Guillermo Adrián, Crystallex's Las Cristinas general manager, "is to give them the jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's Gold Bind | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...What does a new director do on a sustained enterprise like the Potter films (or the James Bonds)? My guess is that, while the series? more or less permanent team keeps the furniture moving, so to speak, the man-for-hire attends to the film?s pace and the care and feeding of the actors. Newell did an exemplary job here, encouraging and eliciting a community of performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's 'Goblet' Gets Better On Screen | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

Successful writers are quick to deny that writing for the Lampoon guarantees a job; the path to the upper echelons of comedy writing is still rocky. “No one would hire a bad writer from Harvard over a talented one from somewhere else,” Michael L. Reiss ’81, former executive producer of “The Simpsons,” told The Crimson...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 12: To Springfield, With Love | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

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