Table of Contents
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The Foreign Service Journal, October 2008
Cover
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Contents
3
Focus on The Peace Corps
20
The Peace Corps at Middle Age
20
Restoring an American Icon for the 21st Century
27
The Silk Road to Washington
34
From the Peace Corps to the Diplomatic Corps
39
FS Fiction
46
Sammy and I
46
Features
52
From Khartoum to Concord
52
Cuba after Fidel
55
AFSA News
61
First Call for AFSA Governing Board Nominations
61
U.S. Presidential Transition and AFSA
61
Editor’s Note: AFSA News Changes Hands
61
News Briefs: Aggeler, Comparability Pay
62
VP State: The Presidential Candidates and the Foreign Service
63
VP USAID: Career Foreign Service Under Attack from Inside
64
Slouching Toward Retirement?
65
Call for Submissions: Inside a U.S. Embassy
66
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers @ State
67
Essay Contest Introduces Students to the Foreign Service
68
Get Set to Vote
68
Classifieds
69
Departments
5
President’s Views—A Professional Issue
5
Speaking Out—Mid-Level Hiring and the War for Talent
13
FS Know-How—Maximizing the Value of the Political Adviser Function
16
Reflections—Earth to Earth, Ashes to Ashes
88
Letters
6
Cybernotes
9
Marketplace
11
Books
71
In Memory
73
Index to Advertisers
86
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