Word: recruiters
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...large, if not at liberty. Mohammed is a prize catch because he was still very much in business. With 200,000 U.S. and British troops stationed in the Persian Gulf ready to move on Iraq, authorities feared that he would activate sleeper cells in the gulf states or recruit fresh volunteers for suicide attacks against U.S. military targets. His network of agents in Kuwait (where he was born to a Pakistani father) and in Qatar--two key staging posts for the U.S. command--are still intact, intelligence experts say. "This is the planner, the key planner of 9/11 and probably...
...wondering whether Columbia coach Armond Hill will make it to 2004. They scan college newspapers for injury reports that team web sites neglected to make clear. They can tell you who’s coming off the bench for the Big Red and who Frank Sullivan is trying to recruit for next year’s Crimson. They’re the first to know when Princeton’s Andre Logan goes down for the year with an injury, and the first to leap to John Thompson III’s defense when the Tigers lose...
Then there are issues that may be more difficult to overcome than who gets to use the boathouse. For instance, it's still hard to recruit enough women players, and it seems that those who do sign up are less willing than men to "ride the bench," or sit on the sidelines while the stars play. Says Pat Babcock, UConn's senior administrator for women's sports: "We ask our women's coaches to carry a lot of players, but the five or six who don't get into an event are apt to go off and do other activities...
...despite the opportunity offered by the current political and academic climate, Harvard is doing relatively less than its peers to recruit top-notch Middle Eastern scholars...
...regular surveys of their student bodies to assess interest in athletics. But this implies that while men do not have to prove their interest in sports, women must do so in order to have equal rights to play. What’s more, interest surveys could hurt attempts to recruit female athletes. There will be no motivation to encourage participation of women but rather every motivation to discourage...