Word: advisor
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Created in 1947, the National Security Council (NSC)--composed of the President and Vice President together with the secretaries of state and defense--was designed to be the principal forum for deciding key foreign and defense policies. A small staff, headed by the sub-cabinet National Security Advisor--or, more formally, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs--was created to assist...
...Washington, as in nature, every action tends to elicit an opposite reaction; but unlike nature, political reactions may not be equal. Already there are reports that legislation is being readied to rein in the NSC advisor and his staff. One idea is to prohibit their carrying out covert operations; another would be to require that the NSC advisor and possibly his top aides be made subject to Senate confirmation and make themselves available for congressional hearings, requirements from which they have been exempt as members of the White House staff...
Requiring confirmation and testimony would be even worse. Raising the visibility of the NSC advisor would only institutionalize the inevitable friction between this individual and cabinet secretaries, thereby increasing the likelihood the United States would speak with several voices. The capacity of the NSC to act as an honest broker of the policy process would be undermined. And the president would have lost an invaluable source of private advice in this critical policy area...
...Department's decision to begin a program of faculty advising for sophomores--reported in a recent issue of The Crimson--will elicit broad and active participation from professors. A department's policy is dismaying when it assigns to seniors who write honors theses in British history a graduate student advisor who specializes in French history, and when it equates one grade on that thesis from another faceless graduate student with that of a distinguished senior faculty member. Under such a procedure, no one knows how many good young men and women are deterred from entering teaching or public service jobs...
Option A: Instruct each student's academic advisor to snicker audibly when signing his or her study card...