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...their final high school year and start thinking of college as a serious option. "A lot of students aren't using their senior year as effectively as they should," says Allison Jones, Cal State's vice chancellor of academic affairs. "We're trying to give them an early-warning signal so they take the courses they need to take, instead of taking it easy...
Andrew Halstead, 19, got the signal loud and clear when he didn't pass the math portion of the EAP test two years ago. "I was ready, essentially, to take senior year off," says Halstead, now finishing his freshman year at California State University, Fresno. "Then I learned that I was worse off in math than I thought." So although he didn't need the additional credits to graduate, Halstead took extra math and science classes that he thought would help better prepare him for college-level work. "When my friends were going out senior year, I was studying...
...Hoekstra, while praising Hayden in general, said that naming a military officer to head the CIA, where the current deputy director is a Navy admiral, would send the wrong signal. "Our nation needs to maintain a balance between intelligence support to the military and long-term intelligence support to policymakers. By placing a military officer atop the CIA, we risk losing this balance, and we risk losing the critical, civilian intelligence analysis that policymakers need when making foreign policy decisions," Hoekstra said...
...Navy SEAL, will step down in the same time-frame as Goss, leaving Negroponte and Hayden-likely with White House input-to pick a new deputy CIA director. Negroponte said at the White House that he is "seriously looking at" Stephen Kappes for that post-which would be a signal to the Agency's career workforce that one of their own would be returning to power after protesting Goss early on. The widely respected Kappes was named deputy CIA director for operations, in charge of the spy corps, under Director George Tenet. But soon after Goss took over...
...intelligence shops--among them the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the FBI. Armed with new powers created by Congress, Negroponte was supposed to make the hidebound agencies work together and share information, something they had largely failed to do before 9/11. Goss's departure was, above all, a signal that Negroponte was finally exercising his powers and trying to slip the stray agencies into harness...