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...game. He got into fights with Senators over minor items in the $28 billion intelligence budget and gave out meager punishments to officials who had ignored warning signs that agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock on the door to his already heavily guarded office suite, signaling to them that he wouldn't be accessible. Months...
Hayman says he thinks Harvard's insular nature contributes to students' ignorance of the homeless. "Harvard students have been conditioned in classes to think of people as less intelligent then they are," he says. 'If [I] say 'Hi', they don't say 'Hi' back...
...move away from the armed struggle for both personal and strategic reasons -- even if some of the local commanders, mostly from rural districts in the North, remain unconvinced that it is time to lay down arms. As evidence of the I.R.A.'s change of heart, sources familiar with the insular and suspicious community of Catholic nationalists on Belfast's Falls Road cite the fact that Sinn Fein has begun working the pubs to begin explaining the need for some sort of cease-fire...
...Will an insular regime become more open or more dangerous...
Supposedly, academia champions the ideals of truth and knowledge in a world overrun by political intrigues and commercial sellouts. But even this insular, scholarly community cannot keep out the influences of popular culture and politics. In fact, the most educated members of society can become the most persuasive, and thereby dangerous, proponents of irrational ideology. The musical A House Divided examines in closer detail the reactions of the fictional Riverside College to such propaganda and the mass hysteria that characterized the anti-Communist McCarthy...