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Once upon a time, in the years immediately following that first bombing in 1993, it was a challenge to recruit suicide bombers. Field leaders for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the radical groups that until lately monopolized the bombings, would seek out promising young men from the mosques or the crowds of rioters at Israeli checkpoints. The leaders would then submit the candidates to intense spiritual indoctrination and terrorist training, watching all the time for signs of fear or doubt. Those who wavered would be quickly dropped...
Kevin Depodwin, Reich’s field coordinator for the campaign, said the staffers hoped to recruit students to be interns during the summer...
...They’re much more serious [about chess] and they play a lot more often than we do,” he said. “When you play more, you have an advantage. Plus they recruit...
Both UTD and UMBC recruit for their chess programs and award chess scholarships. All of the members of the UTD and UMBC teams had qualified for chess scholarships from their schools...
Monro, who arrived at Harvard in 1950 as a College administrator, worked to reform Harvard’s financial aid program and recruit minorities. He became dean of the college in 1958, a post he held for nine years...