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...These tunes have the same tempered, careful energy level of most of Synchronicity (the last Police I.P), but at least that album contained manic cuts like Synchronicity I and Mother to keep everything out of a too-even kilter. Surely the musical dexterity and spontaneity of Sting's new topnotch band will enliven concert performances, but on the album, lyrics and singing demand attention; these don't deliver any great riches...
Meanwhile, the majority of the Afghan recruits went to Pakistan, where the CIA has for three decades run a topnotch network of agents and safe houses. "The CIA archives on Pakistan are perhaps the best in the world," a Western diplomat notes. "When the CIA pipeline first moved in, there wasn't a path into or out of Afghanistan that they didn't have mapped down to every physical detail." Better yet, nearly half of the almost 5,000 ships that unloaded goods in the Pakistani port of Karachi last year were carrying cargo from the Persian Gulf...
Despite the prevailing Japanese view that foreign firms hire female graduates because they cannot attract topnotch men, many U.S. banking offices employ these women precisely for their talents and their performance. Says one American banker: "Men are spoiled from the start in this culture. What the women get in terms of recognition or success they really have to earn...
...four scientists are not unique in their venture. All along Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. new companies are springing to life--Biogen and Biotechnica, Genetics Institute and Software Options, Inc. Most of the new companies deal in genetics, diagnostics and computer software--and they are luring topnotch Harvard scholars away from more traditional consulting roles and persuading them to take major, if part-time, responsibilities in as yet untested firms. So far, between 25 and 40 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone have joined the ranks. What do these Faculty members find so enticing? In almost...
...Weber will be at Mount Holyoke College in snowy Massachusetts. Why the switch? In Weber's case there was no tenure battle or political infighting. It was simply that the young professor, 30, realized he could never afford to buy a home in California. Although Holyoke is a topnotch Eastern women's college, Weber admits: "I feel I've been expelled from Eden and I don't know what I did to deserve such a fate...