Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nicholson joined the CIA. After almost two years of training, he was posted to Manila, then Bangkok and Tokyo, stations where young agents generally played the complicated game of recruiting spies from among the Soviet and East bloc officials. Some of them were intelligence officers themselves, who attempted in return to recruit the Americans. Within 10 years, fast progress by agency standards, he had landed a station chief's job in Bucharest, Romania...
...says he considers special efforts to recruit and admit minorities "a necessary evil...
...effort to bolster minority enrollment, Kennedy School officials said yesterday that the school plans to actively recruit potential students from under-represented ethnic and racial groups...
Surely the K-School still retains its liberal credentials. After all, it did bring Hillary Clinton (the It-Takes-A-Village-"socialist") and Jesse Jackson (who's as liberal as you get) to speak this fall. And the K-School did bring back Clinton policy adviser Ellwood and recruit establishment preserver/reformer William Julius Wilson. Maybe the K-School is simply following the winds of national change for fear of irrelevance. Hopefully, that fear will not cause it to lose its ordinary reasonableness for some temporary gain in popularity. The inclusion of perspectives necessary to open debate is one thing...
Many soldiers interviewed at Aberdeen and Fort Leonard Wood wonder if the attraction between a recruit and a drill sergeant sometimes flows both ways--if, that is, some of the young women are to blame--but Army officials, at least publicly, reject this argument. "Who's the vulnerable party?" asks Major Ralph Palmiero, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry Division at Fort Leonard Wood. "A new private who is so scared and vulnerable, who doesn't understand the Army? Or a drill sergeant, who definitely knows better?" Now that the military has decided to ask, it is likely...