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https://www.newsweek.com/cias-next-generation-200766 WASP from Yale used to be considered the ideal spy for the old-boy network of the CIA. Now agency recruiters jump at the chance to snare a Mormon. Young Mormons tend to have squeaky-clean backgrounds and, thanks to their work as Third World missi...

My experience with language learning is that there's no one right way to do it and different styles work better for different people. The MTC probably works very well for some people, ok for others, and horrible for the rest. They probably do as well as they can teaching people at the MTC given the...

I have a son who served a Spanish mission and now works as a linguist in the military. He learned a third language in the military. He taught languages at both the MTC and in the military. for what it's worth he thinks the military training is much better than how the Church taught him. Interesting...

Great topic, Analytics. I have been using Duolingo for some years now. During the pandemic I decided to subscribe to it. I have studied German, French, Modern Greek, Spanish, and Esperanto there. If I were more adventurous, I would take on more. My experience is that Duolingo has really helped me r...

My two big complaints about how the MTC taught Spanish is that it was most fundamentally based on rote memorization for vocabulary, and then a grammar-theory-first approach to putting sentences together. For example, if I wanted to say, "the book is blue", I'd first have to study lists of vocabulary...

Does the MTC have a good program for learning foreign languages? Has the program changed in the last 34 years since I left? I've been thinking about the MTC a lot the last few days, because I just decided I wanted to learn a 3rd language and have started studying French. As some background, I went t...

Here is the indictment itself:

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ ... 2/full.pdf

Trixie on ZLMB and I think SevenOfNiine somewhere Northbound, both of those names tripped a forgotten corner of my memory. I am pretty sure Seven of Nine is same person as Beastie but I would not swear to it. Memory is vague about the name Trixie. I’m quite sure that before her deep dive into Mesoa...

In 1997, a pair of intellects wrote a book called “The Fourth Turning: An American Prophesy.” The basic hypothesis is that sociological dynamics cause history to go through 80-year cycles, each four "turnings" long, that begin and end with a massive revolution. Specifically, they said that America i...

Did Midgley trash a developed draft because he realized Gee was without defense, because Interpreter rejected, or for other reasons? Even if Dr. Midgley is a dear friend, why would Dr. Peterson risk another "Joseph Smith Papers being called onto the carpet moment" (especially during the travel seas...