Word: hooverness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Also slipping under administrative radar and passing for education here are left-wing catechisms on such topics as social activism and multiculturalism. In his book Illiberal Education, Hoover Institution research fellow Dinesh D’Souza described a Nov. 1989 French class at Harvard, which “resembled a political rally” and consisted of feminist jokes about severed penises. The College’s great strides in 15 years have produced this semester a course on “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” which weighs important commentary from “a socially...
...Traditional agents who weren't good on the street were put into intelligence," said Jack Lawn, a veteran FBI agent who later ran the Drug Enforcement Administration. "There was no measure of success on that side. Convictions, fines, savings and recoveries were the things that [J. Edgar] Hoover pounded into us as important...
Many years before 9/11 and its aftermath, the FBI was the focus of concern over its ability to balance the need for security with that of privacy. As this 1949 TIME cover on J. Edgar Hoover shows, that worry extends to the earliest decades of the law-enforcement agency...
...Years Ago in TIME Many years before 9/11 and its aftermath, the FBI was the focus of concern over its ability to balance the need for security with that of privacy. As this 1949 TIME cover on J. Edgar Hoover shows, that worry extends to the earliest decades of the law-enforcement agency...
Josef Joffe is the editor of Die Zeit and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution