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Aug. 26, 2003: Wanted: Spies who speak Arabic. Part II: As a senior at Berkeley, 21-year-old Carly decided to enter the family business: intelligence. I didn’t want to be an analyst, either, says Carly (not her real name). I wanted to do field work to be a spy. Before she heard back from CIA, however, one of her father’s colleagues, himself a senior intelligence official, sought her out, warning her that her youthful good looks, rather than her mastery of foreign languages or her excellent grades, would be viewed as her main asset.
He basically said it’s likely they would want me to ‘make friends’ with terrorists to sleep with them, she says. I’m patriotic, but I would have been more comfortable assassinating someone than sleeping with them. Thus ended Carly’s romantic notions of espionage. More NBC.
Aug. 24, 2003: As U.S.-Vietnam trade surges, relations thaw and S.F. is courted With economy in transition, country promotes two-way tourism. California is at the top of Hanoi's wish list because of its location on the Pacific, the size of its economy and the fact that it is home to about 500, 000 of this country's 1.2 million Vietnamese Americans.
San Francisco holds pride of place within California.San Francisco started a sister-city relationship with Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, in the late '90s. In December 2001, Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carrier, opened its first U.S. office on Kearny Street. More SF. Chronicle.
Aug. 15, 2003: Power flickers back on in Northeast. The largest blackout in U.S. history slowly receded early Friday, with power returning in fits and starts throughout the Northeast, the Midwest and eastern Canada. Officials struggled to understand what had caused the power system to fail, and more importantly, why the disruption spread so rapidly and across such a wide area. More NBC.
Aug. 13, 2003: RECALL: The final count. Recall ballot offers 135 choices to replace Gov. Davis. SACRAMENTO (AP) - Voters will have 135 candidates to choose from to replace Gov. Gray Davis in California's historic recall, the secretary of state's office said Wednesday after certifying the ballot. The final list was whittled from 247 would-be governors who submitted papers to run in the Oct. 7 special election, disqualifying 112 potential candidates because of incomplete paperwork. More SJMN.