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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 »

...seeing him in running shorts, would hardly recognize him in his grown-up attire. Each morning, he dons a tie and dress coat, walks briskly to the high school and, voila!, quickly transforms from Luke to Mr. Arribas with super-man celerity. It's not just the clothes--his whole attitude seems to change...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Active Voice: Students at the Head of the Class | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...with Shewchuk and Botterill back in the lineup against Brown, the second line barely managed a serious scoring opportunity for the whole night, albeit in less playing time than before. If the second line can be anywhere near as productive as it was in Shewchuk and Botterill's absence, the Purple Eagles could be in for two long afternoons against the Crimson...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W.Hockey Will Try to Forget Tie | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...This is a whole new category of information, and it leads to a whole new category of copyright law," says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. This case opens up a can of worms many in the communications arena ardently hoped would remain tightly sealed. Since the advent of web sites, communications analysts have argued that applying the same copyright laws to Internet material as are applied to physical books or music would slow the transfer of information on the Web, ostensibly negating a primary purpose of the medium: the free exchange of information. And, as every judge knows, since Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Be Careful Whose Links You Click... | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...most circumstances, low-rent pro wrestling is so flimsy and fake that it would be difficult to get oneself excited by it. But suitably starved for thrills, this crowd of 500 or so camouflage-clad boot campers swallowed the whole show with a hoot and a holler. We (and I use the pronoun liberally) dangled candy in front of the fat wrestlers, yelled for push-ups from the fit ones, and screamed platoon slogans at one another. The usual stuff, and loved by most. The Army is full of wrestling fans, like your local bar - and for a couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling — a Little — With My Conscience | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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