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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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They were two men of more than ordinary intelligence—well educated, quiet men caught in what one of them described as a “tragedy of history.” Their paths first crossed 13 years ago; but their separate stories began much earlier: one in a commercial artist’s household in Philadelphia, the other in a dry-goods merchant’s respectable home in Baltimore. The Profanist. Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 in Philadelphia, the elder of two sons of Jay Chambers, who made a precarious living as a commercial artist. The family stock was a mixture of Dutch, German, French and English. When young Whittaker was three, his family moved to Lynbrook, L.I., where Mrs. Chambers raised chickens and vegetables to piece out the family income. As a child, Chambers slaughtered fowl and peddled vegetables. He was a boy of insatiable curiosity who read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment at eleven, and wandered on solitary walks through the woods, which he loved. He went to South Side High School in Rockville Centre, and then, rather than goto college, which his mother wanted him to do, went south to look for a job. He got one in Washington working on the street railway tracks. From there he went to New Orleans, found no job at all. Broke and hungry, he returned home, listened to his mother’s advice and set out for Williams College. Already a cynical, worldly young man, he took one look at what he recalled later as “those young collegiate faces,” stayed one night and decided to try Columbia University in New York. He was there two years. He wrote poetry, edited the literary Morningside, and shocked the campus by bringing out a blasphemous, so-called “Profanist” issue in which he wrote a story dealing “objectionably” with the Resurrection. A student committee invited the editor to resign. He left college and went off to Europe. “Grease the Guillotine.” He found Germany bankrupt, its economy collapsing. One night in Berlin he heard a Communist mob marching under his window singing: “Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants . . . Blood must flow.” It seemed, to him that Western civilization was dying. The U.S. to which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers’ brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard’s grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: “The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face.” Intellectually and morally frustrated, looking for a creed, he read the entire Socialist writings of Sidney & Beatrice Webb, discarded them as unpractical. One of his young Columbia friends put a copy of the Communist Manifesto in his hands. To Chambers, it was an awakening. “The Evil Thing.” He was to explain later to the House Un-American Activities Committee how Marxism could appeal not only to the bitter young intellectual but to more or less sheltered middle-class persons as well. They were attracted, he said, “by the very vigor of the project.” They felt “a great intellectual concern—an almost Christian concern—for the underprivileged, for economic crises, for the problem of war. They say: ‘What shall I do?’ At that crossroad the evil thing, Communism, lies in wait with a simple answer.” Chambers read Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence and was converted to an acceptance of the evil thing as a worthy means to a clear and simple end. In 1924, he joined the Communist Party in New York. For the next 14 years, as he admitted later, he lived a lie—a disloyal citizen plotting against his country.\* He was a find for the party—a taciturn, even secretive man, an awkward, fiery writer, a self-taught linguist who read and spoke German, French, Spanish and Italian. He wrote for the Daily Worker, became its foreign news editor, finally (while Cartoonist Robert Minor was listed at the top of the masthead) became its editor in fact. On the side he did translations. Two of his translations (from the German) were Franz Werfel’s Class Reunion and Felix Salten’s Bambi. In 1929, disturbed by reports of Stalin’s heavy-handed tactics and stories of the first party purges, he quit the Worker and in defiance of party discipline lit out for the Midwest. He did not abandon Communism, however, and returned to New York. He had met and married a young labor organizer and painter named Esther Shemitz. They set up housekeeping in a poverty-stricken tenement on the East Side. His great effort now was on proletarian fiction, published in the Communists’ intellectual organ, the New Masses. His stories, full of romanticism and melodrama, were a summons to violence. Moscow was enraptured, cited him as “the first writer to introduce the Bolshevik into American writing.” The Man In the Linen Suit. In 1932 the party ordered him to go underground —in other words, wipe out his identity and become a secret agent, a spy. His wife cried; he himself was reluctant. But like any good Communist, he obeyed. The New Masses’ Whittaker Chambers vanished. A man known simply as “Carl” appeared in the Red “cells” and in the innermost circles of the Communist underground. He buried his identity so successfully that some of his accomplices thought he was a Russian; one of them was positive that he was a Russian ex-colonel. The little boy who had peddled vegetables in Lynbrook became a skillful and consecrated agent of a Communist “apparatus.” One of the apparatus’ assignments was to infiltrate the U.S. Government with Communist Party members. One day in Washington, in the summer of 1935, a dumpy little man, feeling self-conscious in the first white linen suit he had ever worn, confronted a tall, well-dressed young Government attorney. The little man was Whittaker Chambers; the other was Alger Hiss. The Bright Star. Alger Hiss was born in Baltimore in 1904, the fourth of five children of Charles Alger Hiss, whose father had been a great admirer of Horatio Alger. Alger’s father, a wholesale dry-goods merchant, committed suicide when Alger was three years old. Later, one of his sisters also took her own life. The Hisses lived in a respectable Baltimore neighborhood. Young Alger peddled spring water to the neighbors and raised and sold squabs. He went to camp in Maine, attended P.S. 14, a city high school, and finally entered Johns Hopkins University. There, a quiet, good-looking young man with an easy charm, he shone with a luster that is still remembered. He ran on the track team, headed the dramatic society, edited the campus daily, became colonel in the R.O.T.C., belonged to the best fraternity, won a Phi Beta Kappa key and was voted “most popular, best handshaker, best all around.” Said the yearbook: “Alger must be the most cultured and learned bozo in this neck of the woods. Many and various are the discussions that we have had with him. Many and various the topics—they range from Soviet to style, from liberty to liquor, from guelphs to Goodnow \[Frank J. Goodnow, then president of Johns Hopkins\]. And like Socrates we admit our ignorance in the force of his irresistible logic and rhetoric.” After he graduated, Hiss went to Harvard Law School. There he was on the staff of the Harvard Law Review. Hiss’s star continued to rise. He studied under Felix Frankfurter, graduated cum laude, and went to Washington to serve for a year as secretary to the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Path of Honor. After three years of private practice in New York and Boston, Hiss went back to Washington as an assistant general counsel in the AAA in Henry Wallace’s Department of Agriculture. There he attracted the attention of Senator Gerald P. Nye, who was just starting his munitions investigations. Hiss served as a legal assistant through that sensational probe, then moved over to the Solicitor General’s office. By this time he was married and living quietly in Georgetown. His wife was Priscilla Fansler, a Quaker, the daughter of an insurance man. She was known as “Prossy.” She had lived on Philadelphia’s “Main Line” and had graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1924\. She had worked as a copy chief on TIME (1927-28) and had been married once before, to Manhattan Publisher Thayer Hobson (William Morrow & Co.). They had one son, Timothy. She and Alger were to have another boy, Anthony. They were an attractive, retiring couple, although some people thought Hiss’s manner arrogant. The Hisses were usually the first to leave a party, preferring the company of a small circle of friends, or merely each other’s company at home, reading or listening to music, or taking bird walks along the Potomac. Alger was an amateur ornithologist. This was the path of apparent probity and honor which crossed Whittaker Chambers’ path on that summer day in 1935\. Chambers was to testify later that Hiss was already a member of a Washington Communist cell, that he and Hiss became fa,st friends, and that subsequently Hiss, with the help of Mrs. Hiss, began feeding secret Government documents into the Communist apparatus. Hiss was to deny the whole accusation with cold contempt. He and Prossy knew Chambers, he said, but only as a free-lance writer named “George Crosley” who had come to him to write an article on the Nye Committee. General Secretary. Alger Hiss’s ascendant star did not pause. In 1936 he went into the Department of State, where he worked under Assistant Secretary Francis B. Sayre, first on the Trade Agreement Act, then in the offices of Far Eastern affairs and special political affairs. In 1944 he served as executive secretary at the Dumbarton Oaks conference which laid the foundation for the United Nations. In 1945, he went to Yalta with Franklin Roosevelt and helped draft the agreements which came out of that conference. Later that year he was general secretary at U.N.’s founding conference at San Francisco. Conferees unanimously commended him for the way in which he directed proceedings and managed the agenda. He was given the honor of carrying the U.N. charter to Washington for deposit in the Federal Archives. Charges Denied. There were some vague stories about him. Secretary of State Byrnes was disturbed by reports that some Congressmen were going to accuse Hiss of being a Communist. Byrnes asked Hiss about it, told him the charges centered “from the FBI.” Hiss went to the FBI and denied the charges categorically. They cropped up again. In 1946 Hiss was proposed as president of the $10 million Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, whose major objective now is informing the public about U.N. John Foster Dulles, Thomas Dewey’s adviser on foreign affairs, and one of Hiss’s backers for the Carnegie job, asked him again about the charges. Again Hiss categorically denied them. He was elected to the job, which was enough to cap any public servant’s career. “Faceless Man.” As for Whittaker Chambers—some time in 1938, three years after his meeting with Alger Hiss, his way had taken a turning. He renounced Communism. He had learned what all men learn sooner or later, that the agents of the Kremlin are assassins not only of men’s bodies but of their minds and hearts. In fear and revulsion he quit the party. He was to testify later that he had tried to persuade Alger and Prossy to pull out with him, that Prossy indignantly rejected the idea, that Hiss had wept but had refused. Chambers and his family, his wife Esther and their children Ellen and John, went into hiding. “I was a faceless man,” he said. He moved in a shadowy world of terror, carrying a gun. Finally he emerged cautiously from the shadows to begin a new life. In 1937 he had bought a small farm near Westminster, Md., which Hiss himself had once thought of buying. As quietly as they could, the Chambers family settled into this haven. Chambers began his way back through the profession he knew best. He ventured into New York’s literary world, did some research, reviewed some books and in April 1939 was hired to review books by TIME. The Informer. To some of his colleagues, his fear of Communism seemed a morbid preoccupation, a kind of King Charles’s head. He was valued, nevertheless, not only for his firsthand knowledge of Communism but for his outstanding skill in writing and his wide cultural background. He had also become a genuinely religious man: a Quaker. In 1939, a little while after he came to TIME, he went to Adolph Berle, then Assistant Secretary of State, and disclosed to him the names of certain men who he said were Communists working in the government. He gave the same information, in two interviews, to the FBI. Last summer, he made his dramatic tale public before the House Un-American Activities Committee. But on none of these occasions did he say anything about the packet of stolen State Department papers which he had stashed away after he broke with the party. When he brought forward his dusty bomb from Brooklyn, he raised a whole new clamor. In the midst of that clamor last week, Chambers resigned as a senior editor of TIME. “When TIME hired me in 1939,” he wrote in his statement, “its editors knew that I was an ex-Communist; they did not know that espionage was involved . . . After nine years of work done in good conscience, I have been called upon to expose the darkest and most dangerous side of Communism—espionage. This can be done only if a man who knows the facts will stand up and tell them without regard to the cost or consequences to himself. I cannot share this indispensable ordeal with anyone.” TIME accepted the resignation, neither judging nor prejudging his recent disclosures. “Against the admitted disservice to his country of a decade ago,” said TIME, “must be set the service we are convinced he is trying to perform for his country now.” The Final Lines. This week Alger Hiss resigned his $20,000-a-year Carnegie post. Legal proceedings, he said, “will occupy almost all of my time for some weeks to come.” The trustees tabled the resignation and gave him a leave of absence with pay for three months. Meanwhile Hiss clung staunchly to his impeccable role. If Chambers had lied, then Hiss had been incredibly maligned and made the victim of a monstrous slander. If Chambers spoke the truth, then Alger Hiss had led an almost incredibly clever double life. The two of them could do little more now than stand to one side, speaking their final lines, spectators more than actors in their own drama. \*All through the 19303 the majority of Americans thought of American Communists as being critical of the U.S. but not actively hostile to it. The U.S. had recognized Russia, had not yet recognized that all Communists’ allegiance is to Moscow, that they are therefore disloyal citizens of every non-Communist country. No major U.S. political leader, from F.D.R. to any of his political opponents, ever suggested that the Communist Party be outlawed. 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