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...MCCARTHY HAS BECOME a metaphor for an existential drama enveloping the CIA. On the surface, the question is whether CIA employees may take it upon themselves to reveal CIA secrets to the media. The answer is no. There is, in the first quarter-inch of every CIA employee's personnel file, an ironclad secrecy agreement forbidding such. It is the law--and properly so. One can easily defend the need for unyielding discipline when it comes to guarding the nation's secrets. And one can point to legitimate internal channels for dissent. But all that may be irrelevant in today...
...group of student activists sought to remind passersby of the second anniversary of the release of photos depicting U.S. military personnel abuse of inmates in Iraq’s Abu Gharib prison...
...think the students got a good appreciation for the broad strategic knowledge, language, history, philosophy, information management, politics, and economics that are all elements of the education of the modern military,” he added. Hooper stressed the importance of overcoming common stereotypes about armed forces personnel. He said that Harvard students—as future leaders—should understand the “true role of the military in American society...
...dealer is to call Averell Harriman (one of his predecessors) a Manhattan day trader. Before becoming one of the most successful business leaders in the country, Tuttle served in President Reagan’s White House for seven years—four of them as director of presidential personnel, which put him at the very center of national decision-making on the full range of foreign and domestic issues...
...Some professors and former administrators say that a change in the working atmosphere inside University Hall has accompanied the change in personnel...