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...deck of cards or on any list of Iraq's most wanted. Until last week, the 16-year-old was an ordinary student in an affluent suburb of Baghdad. But it took only minutes to transform him from a bystander to American rule in Iraq to a willing recruit for the resistance movement, vowing to kill U.S. soldiers. As he and his brother Zaid drove home after collecting their family's monthly rations of flour, rice and cooking oil, they came upon a hastily established American checkpoint, part of an outer security cordon thrown up during a raid...
During the first half of his four-year tenure in Cambridge, Leaman, known for his recruiting savvy, teamed with then-Harvard assistant Ron Rolston to recruit the 16 seniors and juniors who make this year’s edition of the Crimson the early favorite to win the ECAC...
...local CBS-TV affiliate that she'd soon be filing suit. The resulting two-part TV series caused widespread concern, if not panic, among Beverly Hills high school students, parents and graduates. Six hundred people attended a meeting hosted by Brockovich at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel to recruit potential litigants, who were asked to fill out questionnaires to document their illnesses. Armed with these data, Brockovich charged that emissions of benzene, toluene n-hexane and other substances on the high school campus have caused 300 cases of cancer among those who graduated between 1977 and 1996. Though lacking...
...believes that al-Qaeda recruiters are aggressively enrolling youths like the Jabarahs, with U.S., Canadian or Western European passports and good command of the English language and the North American interior. While the network had always tried to recruit people with U.S. and other Western passports, FBI counter-terrorism chief Larry Mefford recently revealed that al-Qaeda was "refocusing its efforts" to sign on disaffected Americans, green-card holders and Muslims who had spent time in the U.S. as students or visitors who had a good command of English and a working knowledge of American society and culture. This effort...
...there, I edited feature stories and had little desire to influence other sections of the paper. But when some minority students complained about the lack of diversity in our coverage and on our staff, I felt dutybound to press other editors to cover minorities more and explore ways to recruit more black students. When students debated whether Yale should have a day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I saw this as a largely symbolic issue that I wasn't passionately interested in. But eventually I found myself questioning how anyone could not agree that we should have this...