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...eventual post-college education plans, those figures increased to 15.3 percent, 14.3 percent and 13.6 percent, respectively, with 16.3 percent planning to attend business school either immediately or after a stint in the work force...
...currently ending a four year stint as chairman of the Board of Overseers visiting committee on the Kennedy School. He also sits on the visiting committees of the Graduate School of Design and the Fogg Museum...
During his three-year stint at F.D.O., Khan had copied the plans of the centrifuge process and sent them back to Pakistan. He had revealed to his countrymen the names of more than 100 European, Canadian and U.S. firms that could provide the necessary equipment for a plant. Using a network of phony businesses as cover, Pakistan began to acquire and transfer to Islamabad technology from Western Europe and North America. Items in the covert pipeline ranged from special steel tubing to precision measuring equipment to specialized electronics. In 1978, some 400 tons of uranium oxide, the basic feedstock...
...which is not what people expected when Bennett arrived in the job with his humanist background, top-drawer intellect and impeccable scholarly credentials: B.A. from Williams College, Ph.D. from the University of Texas, a law degree from Harvard and a stint as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. According to Terry Hartle, education specialist for the American Enterprise Institute, when Bennett's posting was announced, it was "greeted with a sigh of relief by the educational community, who feared a hatchet man might be appointed." But the community soon learned that relief would not be spelled...
Billig's problems began when a New Jersey hospital where he was working in 1980 refused to allow him to operate without supervision because of questionable surgical judgment. He later resigned from that facility. After a stint at the Pittsburgh hospital, Billig, a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, was recruited by the Navy. At Bethesda, things began to go bad after ten months. In 1983 the hospital suspended Billig's surgery credentials, later reinstating them. Some reports say the Navy knew of Billig's New Jersey history when it approached him; a naval investigation...