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...People are still going to lie," acknowledges Assistant FBI director Ken Senser, who has been brought in from the CIA to re-invent the bureau's security system. "But background investigations should be robust enough to get a hint that there are issues that require deeper examination." Senser says he intends to deploy more aggressive background investigators, with experience in conducting probing interviews that elicit indications of psychological and integrity problems. In the past, background investigators, generally retired FBI agents working on contract, rarely went beyond the subject's hand-picked character references. This practice was sharply criticized...
Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett should be hailed as a hero for her enlightening book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, but instead she is being criticized as an anti-feminist [SOCIETY, April 15]. Please! Hewlett did not invent female biology; she only reports the facts, saying that at 27 a woman's chances of getting pregnant begin to decline. As a mother who had a child at age 30, I know that parenthood is all about making hard choices. Having a child is a lifestyle choice. If a woman is not willing to adjust her professional...
...identify with. (Heaven forbid, of course, a female lead.) But as the lead guys get more girly, so, it seems, do the women. The main female characters in FFX can’t hit; they only cast spells. Deadly spells, in one instance, but still. These worlds were invented for fun, as glut troughs for the human imagination, so why not invent me a shuriken...
...will probably never finish. Notable American Women demands full attention in order to make any sense of the bizarre world it describes. But although this slim volume is not an easy read, it would be unfair to simply deny Marcus credit for his sincere attempt to “invent new uses of language.” If the premise of fiction is that an exploration of what was never real can inform our understanding of what is and might be real, then Notable American Women certainly has an intriguing contribution to offer. Unfortunately, Marcus’ inventiveness seems...
...show at all until opening night. But I do the drawings from costume sketches, scenery designs. I copy those, and then I put the characters in. They either come up here, or I go where they're rehearsing. So I have to kind of invent a drawing...