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...morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...
...some extent, the dilemma over the CIA has to do with an American need to have it both ways: the U.S. wants to be (and to see itself as) a morally responsible country and yet function as a great power in an immoral world. As Bowdoin's Robinson puts it, "There is an inevitable tension between an organization like the CIA and a democratic society. From time to time there will be pulling back when the organization may have gone too far." The U.S. has reached such a point with the revelations about its actions in Chile, which, on balance...
...world that is ever going to disappear is Soviet covert activities of a political nature. To say détente stops them is grossly naive." Thus Bundy argues that the U.S. should not be precluded from covert actions, but should not use such actions as extensively as in the 1950s. Bowdoin College Provost Olin Robinson, an authority on intelligence organizations in democratic societies, agrees: "Unless you've got a cast of world characters who are willing to play by a certain set of rules, you're going to have covert operations." In other words, the CIA should be left the capacity...
Harvard 0, Bowdoin Frosh...
...Bowdoin fr. at home...