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...politics, first serving in the army as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces, then waiting on tables in the Sinai before joining Mossad, the Israeli foreign-intelligence agency, in which she served from 1980 to 1984. She learned elementary spy craft in Paris, including lessons on how to recruit agents. She also learned the importance of discretion, a valuable skill in her current role as chief Israeli negotiator with the Palestinians...
Four years ago, he moved to Los Angeles, helping to open a dispensary and working to recruit activists and local politicians to the cause. Now he does that from a small office just upstairs from his four-room dispensary, which sits next to a Tattoo parlor and around the corner from a Target store. Two beefy security guards watch the door and a smiling receptionist sits next to a case displaying bongs and other paraphernalia. Inside, patients examine samples in glass cases. Some day, Duncan says, this will be as normal as visiting Walgreens. For now, he's less focused...
...achieves diversity in two ways. First, it makes the process fairer for those students who could not apply early under the previous system because of a lack of money or inadequate college counseling. Second, the extra time in the fall gives admissions officers and athletic coaches the chance to recruit qualified high school students who would not typically apply to Harvard. While opponents of the decision warned that top applicants would be lost to peer institutions, “letters of intent” expressing interest in a student’s candidacy were sent in advance of official admissions?...
...grants, stopped including home equity in loan calculations, and guaranteed that families making from $120,000 to $180,000 would pay only 10 percent of their income to send a child to college. This program will benefit students as well as the university as a whole, allowing it to recruit and admit students that would be otherwise unable to attend. The trend toward expansion of financial aid was also seen in initiatives at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which all expanded their financial aid programs. These decisions reflect a University-wide commitment...
...profit management, those professions don’t have as many resources to recruit students and to develop leadership skills,” Corbin said. “We were trying to create a position that will allow a graduating senior to further their knowledge, skills, and networking in order to elevate themselves to gain a top position or start their own non-profit...