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...play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After one lass gives a jaunty account of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirt From The Old Sod | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...attempted to fool the KGB on the ground -- sometimes with comic contortions. In his new book, The FBI (Pocket Books), Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure that the replacement odometer's mileage read exactly the same as that of the real car. Meanwhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fun and Games with the KGB | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard from the fall of 1991 are mentioned in a list of examples of violence and harassment at Massachusetts institutions: a November 1991 issue of the conservative student magazine Peninsula, which criticized homosexuality and the "homosexual lifestyle," and the postering of signs around campus urging "Harvard: Don't Recruit Homosexuals...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Governor Develops Report On Gay Issues | 8/20/1993 | See Source »

Fitzsimmons said it is necessary to aggressively recruit students in a wide variety of areas in order to arrive at a talented and diverse class...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Feds Investigating Bias in Admissions | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...been able to buy them at bargain- basement prices. Used Boeing 727s that cost up to $40 million new can now be bought or leased for about $2 million a plane. And with so many out-of-work pilots eager to fly, the new carriers have been able to recruit flight crews for less than half the top union scale of $150,000 a year. Says Reno Air president Jeff Erickson: "This is the perfect time for a start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Too Can Run An Airline | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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