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...School critics, including former Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, say they worry that Law School Dean Robert C. Clark may get the wrong idea from the gift. A sizable gift from a Black donor might foster a sense of complacency among administrators, causing them to recruit minority professors less vigorously, according to Bell and others...
Course leaders aim to recruit approximately 160 scholars from prominent universities in Central and Eastern Europe and enroll them in existing executive education programs offered by consortium members...
...similarly innocuous tasks. General Vadim Kirpichenko, a KGB veteran who is a key adviser to the head of the SVR, says the service intends to behave in a more "civilized" manner and its agents will eschew blackmail, the use of drugs and other traditional techniques employed to compromise and recruit foreign agents...
True, Western intelligence agencies eager to justify their budgets may be indulging in some self-serving threat inflation, but there is little evidence that the SVR is pulling back. FBI sources, for example, say that this year alone Russian agents have tried to recruit several U.S. citizens as spies, including a sailor based at the U.S. Navy's giant Hampton Roads facility in Norfolk, Va. Wayne Gilbert, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, complains of a continuing influx of Russian agents disguised as businessmen and tourists. In the Belgian episode, SVR spies had targeted a sensitive nato battlefield communications system. Elsewhere...
Hollywood's latest version of these old D.C. Comics characters is no surprise. Take any story, film executives reason, no matter how stale, and make it larger than life. Finance a dark and spectacular Gotham City, recruit the most seasoned stars and fill the screen with more special effects than the eye can follow...