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...Professor Gates is a prodigious recruiter,” says Karen C.C. Dalton, the current Assistant Director of the Du Bois Institute. “We’re incredibly fortunate to be able to attract really top-flight people, and in the end, when you’ve got great minds and great energy, good things happen...
...Quakers, on the other hand, have one of the nation’s top scoring offenses and defenses, as well as a top-flight special teams unit. This might just be the showdown of the Ivy League’s most and least complete teams...
...11” and 215 lbs., the Alpharetta, Ga., native was considered too small by many of the top-flight Division I-A programs...
...Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announced last week that it had chosen Alsop to be the orchestra's new conductor. The changing of the guard at an orchestra, even a top-flight outfit like the Baltimore Symphony, isn't usually a matter of widespread interest--it's not as if Alsop were dating Tom Cruise or anything--but this particular appointment is remarkable because high-level orchestral conducting is one of the last of the great professional boys' clubs, and Alsop will be the first woman ever to lead a major American symphony orchestra. She also finds herself in the awkward...
Despite some crack agents and top-flight hardware, however, the job of Counterintelligence remains scattershot. Four million people in the U.S. have access to classified information, but only a portion of the FBI's 8,800 agents are charged with counter-intelligence. Says Webster: "Our strategy is to focus on the known and suspected hostile intelligence officers, and through a spider-web approach, become aware of contacts they might seek to make." Still, many of the initial clues in recent cases have been tips from a spy's suspicious friends or colleagues...