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...people say that E.R. makes them yearn for the trauma unit; none say that the show made them become pre-med. But Bryan A. Henry, '95, admits that the show re-affirms his lifelong desire to become a doctor. "There are some things in E.R. that definitely make me excited to get on within the medical career. You see the major decisions [doctors] have to make, but it also opens your eyes to the other side, the huge responsibility that they have." Tattenbaum, a very humanities, social-science-oriented student says that the show does make her think about becoming...
...companies get free executives. For the cover to be plausible, the CIA must recruit business-school graduates who can put in a productive day's work with the firm and then spy during their off-hours. The CIA has even begun experimenting with recruiting mid-level corporate executives who yearn for adventure, then placing them in overseas firms as ``NOCs of convenience'' to penetrate a target for several years. When the mission is over, the execs return to the business world. But while they are NOC officers, the CIA pays them a government salary. The company pays them a corporate...
...many families who inhabit the world of contemporary fiction, those in the Iris clan are profoundly disconnected from one another. When we meet them in Angel Angel (Viking; 211 pages; $19.95), April Stevens' intelligent and moving first novel, they seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...
...shake their mother's sadness. Ultimately, they manage to get on with their lives, thanks to an outsider. TIME book reviewer Ginia Bellafante calls the book an "intelligent and moving first novel" with successful portrayals of characters who "seem withered by their inability to achieve the closeness they yearn...
...problem is one of psychology. Despite, or because of, current military and economic weakness, Russians of every political opinion yearn to see their country once again treated as the great power it historically has been. Instead, they think, it is being brushed aside. Russian fears of an expanded NATO may be exaggerated but are not totally paranoid. Fear of Russia is indeed a factor driving Moscow's former satellites to seek full NATO membership. Russians tend to forget their country's long history of aggressive expansion under czars as well as commissars. Worse, Russians think the U.S. and other Western...