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Sometimes, incentives for faculty members—such as bonuses and a lighter courseload—can increase their willingness to change established practices. But administrators say these incentives will not ensure the long-term success of a curriculum...
...weather on the Severn River was breezy on Saturday, when the Crimson got out to its big lead, and lighter on Sunday, but strong enough for the women to hold their lead...
Aidin E. W. Carey ’07, a prospective history and literature concentration in Grays Hall, said the lighter financial burden on her family would allow her to devote more time to extracurricular activities, instead of working longer hours during the academic year...
...open-neck shirt, jacket and trousers looked like any of the traveling merchants who frequent the area. When he was stopped at a Kurdish checkpoint near Kalar, officials made an intriguing discovery in his travel bag: two CDs and a computer flash disc the size of a cigarette lighter. With a hunch who their catch was--the CIA had given them a heads-up that he might be in the area--the Kurdish officials snapped a digital mug shot of the traveler and e-mailed it to their American intelligence contacts. The confirmation came back quickly: the Kurds had nabbed...
...Soviet Union's choicest military secrets-and he passed them on to the enemy as a spy for the CIA. From 1972 to 1981, Kuklinski, whose code name was Gull, copied more than 35,000 pages of classified documents, often using a CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter. Perhaps his greatest service was to warn Washington in 1980 that the Soviets were planning to invade Poland to quash the country's fledgling trade union movement, allowing the U.S. to pressure Moscow to back down. Kuklinski, who defected to the U.S. in 1981, said his espionage was motivated...