Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone doubts the intensity with which Ivy coaches recruit against one another, one need look no further than the aftermath of the unfortunate incident last spring, when a prospective recruit was beaten by another player during a campus visit. According to several alumni athletic boosters, other league coaches did not miss a beat in using the incident to convince high school players that Cambridge was not the place for them...
...addition, they said, would be Greg Laughlin of Texas, who abruptly resigned two weeks ago from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Reports from Laughlin's home district indicated that he was about to leave the Democrats entirely. In anticipation, Republicans were signing a letter to welcome their newest recruit...
...reflected that the false charges had been levied by a supervisor. "I had been told by another woman case officer, 'Watch out for him, he'll get you,'" she says. And he eventually did. At her next two posts, in Western Europe, she was denied jobs where she could recruit informants. Without sufficient recruits, Diane's job ratings slid and she was dispatched to headquarters. "I'm just treading water," she says. "The DO lives and dies on recruitments. It's a scalp hunt...
Worse, they say, officers laboring under recruit-or-perish pressure tend to sign up large numbers of marginal sources. "People go out and recruit assets that don't produce," says Lynn Larkin, who spent eight years as a CIA case officer covering Czechoslovakia and Western Europe. As an unmarried woman, Larkin says she was pressured by her station chief to stop dating a fellow American, even though he had a security clearance. She resigned in disgust 18 months ago, after a married Directorate executive invited her to lunch, announced, "I can help your career if you stick with...
...death decisions about when and how to cover the action. "You have to rely more than anything on the reporter's common sense on what risks are worth taking," she says. "Our team, to a person, has been incredibly courageous and enterprising." She's confident that our newest recruit in the Bosnian battle zone, Calabresi, will continue that tradition. Says Attinger: "There's a great curiosity and intensity in Massimo. There's always one more thing for him to find...