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...fascination your feature articles on the various Undergraduate Council presidential candidates, and I was taken aback by what seems a most noticeable difference in the quality of reportage devoted to the different campaigns. It is clear that, while the teams writing about Darling-Patel and Plants-Wikler were quite thorough in their investigations, the articles devoted to the other two-person teams were sorely lacking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...sense. The candidate first receives a "conditional offer" of employment which, ironically, is the easy part. According to a personnel officer, he or she is then subjected to an elaborate security clearance process that can take between three months and several "years." Beginning with a polygraph test and a thorough medical and psychiatric examination, the CIA invests a whole lot of resources into investigating the recruits...

Author: By Steve W. Chung, | Title: CIA Policies Discourage Top Recruits | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Messenger would have benefited from thorough editing. It is littered with clunky metaphors and minor errors, such as Evanzz's assertion that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed with a shotgun, not a high-powered rifle, that undermine its credibility. Those seeking a definitive biography of the Muslim leader should turn to Claude Andrew Clegg III's 1997 study, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, which covers most of the same ground but in a scholarly and far more convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unlikely Prophet | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...caller reported that a man carrying what looked to be a gun was walking near Boylston Hall. A thorough search of the area turned up nothing...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Log | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...need to encourage physicians and patients to have more thorough discussions," he said...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HMS study finds racial gap in kidney transplants | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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