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Many in the audience, and in the larger Arab American community, gave Panetta credit for audacity. Arab Americans make up more than 30% of Dearborn's 100,000 residents, and few CIA directors have visited here, much less sought to recruit. "If you had told me some years ago that the boss of the CIA would come here and ask for our help, I would not have believed it," said Baha Saad, a local restaurateur. "To do that takes some balls." (See pictures of the adventures and misadventures...
When Hermogenes Marrero was in Marine boot camp, he recalls being the only recruit who didn't panic during simulated-chemical-warfare drills. "I'd sit there calmly with my gas mask on," Marrero says, "while a lot of other guys got scared and ran away." It was 1969, and Marrero, a New Yorker born in Puerto Rico, was fresh out of high school at the age of 17. But his composure caught the eyes of Marine instructors - and the next year, he says, he was at Camp Garcia on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, helping guard...
Masons aren't allowed to recruit people. Why is that? They don't want you to bring in people against their will. They need to join for their own voluntary reasons...
Entering her freshman season, standout basketball recruit Jasmine Evans hoped to follow the advice of her coach and provide a defensive presence that would help the Harvard women’s basketball team regain its position atop the Ivy League...
...Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer wrote in an e-mailed statement about Mitchell’s appointment. “I think having more resources of this type is just extremely, extremely important,” said sociology professor Lamont, who added that she hopes FAS will recruit and tenure more women and minorities. “It’s not just about racial diversity; it’s about cosmopolitanism and the range of realities that our faculty have experience in as human beings.” Mitchell worked as communications director at Brandeis University, Stevens...