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...good number of us are still possessed with the somewhat juvenile desire to, well, have a really cool job. We've watched too much television and want to be Mulder and Scully, Men in Black, Clint Eastwood, Clarice Starling, Charlie's Angels. We want to pack heat and wear the Armani...
...leap from the FBI to Harvard isn't that uncommon. Former HUPD Chief Robert Tonis spent 27 years with the FBI before coming to Cambridge. The Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School have a number of faculty ties to the FBI. Law School Professor William J. Stuntz, a criminal law expert, sometimes lectures at the legendary Quantico Academy in Virginia, where special agents train. Alan A. Stone, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at the Law School, has been a consultant for the FBI during crises like the stand-off between law enforcement officials and the Branch...
...Most of the Harvard friends who told me of their interest in the FBI will never head to Quantico either. We'll go to law school, or medical school, or Wall Street. We'll become artists, accountants, reporters, bankers--but despite the number of us who have at one time considered the Bureau, we probably won't become special agents. At night, we'll come home to our safe houses, have dinner with our families, and watch bad television shows with glamorous FBI-like characters in them. And maybe that's better, because after all, being in the Bureau takes...
Supporters have crooned that it's the other five percent that matters. Well, you can kiss even that five percent goodbye. All of Lieberman's centrist leanings have been ditched for the position of number two yes-man. In 1995, Lieberman was attacked by Jesse Jackson as "irresponsible" for his bold statements against affirmative action and Proposition 209, the California initiative against racial preferences. Lieberman said that "the current system of group preferences has to end. For after all, if you discriminate in favor of one group on the basis of race, you thereby discriminate against another group...
...Moving away from home for the first time and being immediately placed in a high intensity situation with little idea of what to expect was challenging for us all last year," she said. "However, the number of us and the immediate bond that we established with each other helped make every aspect of the transition much easier...