Table of Contents
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102
The Foreign Service Journal, June 2008
Cover
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Contents
3
Focus on the FS Personnel System
15
Who Is the “Total Candidate?” FSO Hiring Today
15
A Career Out of Balance
26
Going It Alone: Family Life in the ‘New’ Foreign Service
30
Rewarding Functional Policy Expertise
36
The Movement to Empower Locally Engaged Staff
43
Features
47
Building on the Goldwater-Nichols Act
47
A Lagos Diary: Dying Request for a Kosher Burial
51
AFSA News
57
Foreign Affairs Day: AFSA Honors Fallen Colleagues
57
Briefs: Aggeler Is Back
58
VP State: The Next FS Generation
59
AFSA-PAC Treasurer’s Report
60
Issue Brief: Foreign Assistance Reform
61
VP FCS: Unfinished Business
62
Legislative Update
63
Classifieds
64
Schools Supplement
67
Flying Solo—Going to College from Overseas: A Guide for Parents
68
Schools at a Glance
81
Special-Needs Kids and the Foreign Service: Dispelling the Myths
89
Departments
5
President’s Views—The Foreign Service Act of 2010
5
Speaking Out—Where Have All the Senior-Level Women Gone?
12
Reflections—Trombone Diplomacy
100
Letters
6
Cybernotes
8
Marketplace
11
Books
93
Index to Advertisers
98
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