Word: recruited
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Tight end Blake Barker, the top high school football recruit in Massachusetts, decommitted from the Palo Alto, Calif. school on Oct. 16 and verbally declared his allegiance to the Crimson ranks...
...another top-tier basketball recruit has dashed the hopes of the Crimson faithful. Highly-touted prospect Dwight Powell ended his recruitment Saturday, verbally committing to Stanford. The 6’10” center, a Canadian native attending IMG Basketball Academy in Florida, chose to join the Cardinal over Georgia Tech and Harvard...
According to Daniel E. Lage '10, co-director of the Vernon Hall volunteer program, PBHA hopes to recruit new volunteers through its publicity efforts; though PBHA has a sprawling membership, about only 20 volunteers work with the elderly, he says...
...active despite the raids that have sapped its membership. Hicheur's ability to move from that group directly into AQIM circles, meanwhile, is a reminder of how many places the terrorism threat now resides in Europe. Hicheur's case also marks the first instance of AQIM using a French recruit as an active terrorist operative in Europe, rather than solely for logistical assistance as the group has in the past. All the more reason for Europe's counterterrorism authorities to continue their online vigil - and check out even the seemingly least-likely candidates for jihadist activity...
...share of characters? So far as I know, MI5 is the first government agency to actually identify a sense of humor as a desirable trait in a recruit. When you look at the world of espionage, it's the only profession in which a fictional character is at least a hundred times better known than any real character. James Bond is the only brand leader to have remained in the top spot over the years. An intelligence officer once told me that in the depths of the Third World he met a tribal leader whom he thought knew no English...