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...comes Echelon, a bleeding-edge system theoretically capable of taking in all of this intercepted information, analyzing it through pattern-recognition resources, and distributing relevant information to human analysts for further scrutiny...
Keefe’s actual rock-solid information on Echelon is slim-to-none, due to the intense secrecy of the program—if the U.S. government blew off the European Union’s recent attempt to learn more about the system, a law school student from Yale can hardly expect to gain more privileged information. Combined with the intelligence maxim Keefe repeatedly cites throughout the book—that there is an inverse relationship between how much actual secret information someone knows and how much they are willing to talk—the possibilities for any substantial...
Recent results have only bolstered that assertion. Harvard comes into the game as one of the hottest teams in the nation, unbeaten in its last 13 contests, dating back to last calendar year. The Big Green, having asserted itself alongside the Crimson in college hockey’s upper echelon, brings special intensity to meetings with its main Ivy foe and will have something to say about the continuation of that unbeaten streak...
That left the Harvard squad hoping to redeem itself the next day by translating statistical success into a ‘W’ against the NCAA’s upper echelon...
With the tie, Wisconsin asserted that it belongs in the upper echelon of title contenders along with Minnesota...