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Each year Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recruiters visit Harvard in search of some of the best and brightest minds to replenish the agency's ranks of intelligence analysts and cloak-and-dagger operatives. But recent disclosures indicate that the CIA's interest in what happens to a human mind at Harvard has not been solely confined to the goings-on in a lecture hall. University officials disclosed last week that CIA fiscal records show Harvard involvement in two research projects conducted under the CIA's controversial MK-ULTRA human behavior control program of the 1950s. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel...
Implicit in these ambitions is what Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the Kennedy School, readily acknowledges as the "best and the brightest syndrome": There is always the danger the school will create an Eastern, intellectual elite--perhaps as incapable of understanding the public and as callous to ethics and social values as the elite of the early '60s. On a less dramatic plane, Bok and company may simply be guilty of unrealistic goals, the nature of which, Allison says, "is somewhat related to the character of the University...
...school aims to prepare the non-elected public servant. Recent graduates include Congressional legislative aides, staff analysts, a state cabinet secretary and agency heads. Jackson is quick to point out that the school is not training "a racist and sexist" cabal of private advisers like the best and the brightest of the early '60s. The school has a flexible admissions policy, he says, bringing together academics, city pols and bureaucrats. The number of women enrolled in this year's 130 member entering class for the MPP program increased from...
While history has not had time enough to issue its verdict, it seems the Ford Foundation has, led by its president McGeorge Bundy of "Best and Brightest" fame who is also a former dean of Harvard College. In its report on the seven public policy schools it has been funding, the foundation noted, "If innovations (educational and otherwise) can be said to have succeeded by not failing, then the 'public policy movement' may well be a remarkable success...
...destruction of personal property, we find the tyrannical actions of the Marquette Park racists and the Nazis of Chicago's South Side to be far more heinous. We would rather walk among the looters of human possessions in total darkness than the pillagers of human rights in the brightest sunshine...